Hemileia vastatrix killed Ceylon's coffee in 1869, crashed Central America in 2012, and now the resistant varieties saving us are failing. The full history.
How the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, Doyle Dane Bernbach, and a fictional Andean farmer turned anonymous Colombian beans into the only branded commodity in coffee history.
Stumptown and Blue Bottle are the two anchor third-wave roasters in America. We compare history, flagship blends, roast style, pricing, and ownership in 2026.
How Brazil became the world's coffee superpower — Palheta's 1727 smuggle, slavery and colonos, the 1906 valorization, and Vargas's 78 million burned bags.
A traditional macchiato is an espresso 'stained' with a small dollop of milk foam. Here's how it differs from a latte macchiato and Starbucks' Caramel Macchiato.
Cold brew concentrate at 1:4–1:8 ratios, with the steep-time, grind, dilution, and shelf-life math worked out from the actual extraction research. The complete reference for batch prep.
Jonathan Gagné measured burr seasoning on a Kafatek EG-1 — the curve hits its asymptote at 16 pounds. Here is what actually changes, and why most home setups need 3-5 lbs.
What actually happens during an Ethiopian coffee ceremony — the three rounds (abol, tona, baraka), the jebena clay pot, regional spices, and the deep history behind the ritual that anchors social life across Ethiopia.
Espresso is a small hydraulic system built out of ground coffee. The machine supplies pressure. The puck creates resistance. Here's why the grinder matters more than the machine.
Plastic V60 outperforms ceramic and glass on slurry temperature stability. Gagne's thermal data ranks dripper materials and explains why physics says plastic wins.
Caffeine 6 hours before bed cuts sleep by an hour. Here's the half-life math, the CYP1A2 metabolizer split, and how to calculate your personal cutoff time without quitting coffee.
Black paper-filtered coffee runs about 2 calories per cup. French press, espresso, milk, and cream change the equation. The fasting-and-coffee science most guides skip.
In the first three weeks of March 2020, specialty coffee's annual event calendar collapsed. Within months a new category had emerged — multiple operators stood up online events that would shape industry gatherings for the next half-decade. A history of how coffee festivals pivoted online in 2020, the templates that emerged, and which conventions stuck.
The Coffee Profilers Method maps a coffee drinker's personal preference across five practical axes — acidity, body, processing, single-origin vs. blend, and brew format. Reproducible without a barista, anchored in SCA cupping vocabulary, named for the Berlin café that pioneered the personal-bean-identity concept.
Porto's specialty coffee scene runs across the river from the historic city center, in Vila Nova de Gaia. 7g Roaster — with Portuguese Barista Champion David Coelho leading the coffee program — is its centerpiece.