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.
How the Boss Barista podcast, the Coffeewoman panel, Michelle Johnson's intersectionality work, and Pete Licata's critique of barista competition reshaped specialty coffee's equity conversation between 2015 and 2020.
James Hoffmann's 2016 Coffee Jobs Podcast argued coffee careers don't have to be dead-ends. A decade later, here's the case — plus a guide to specialty coffee career paths in 2026.
2006 World Barista Champion Klaus Thomsen co-founded Coffee Collective in Copenhagen with Casper Engel Rasmussen and Peter Dupont. The story of the roaster, the man, and Mikaela Wallgren.