Recent Coffee Articles
El Niño's Hidden Tax on Coffee, Chocolate & Groceries
The Super El Niño Tax: How a Pacific Weather Cycle Is About to Hit Your Morning Coffee, Your Chocolate Bar, and Your Grocery Bill There is a force gathering strength across the Pacific Ocean right now — invisible, indifferent, and extraordinarily powerful — and by the time it peaks this winter, it
AeroPress Launches Its First Walnut Wood Coffee Collection
AeroPress Goes Premium in a New Way With Its First-Ever Walnut Wood Collection For two decades, AeroPress has been the coffee world's most unlikely cult object — a humble, palm-sized plastic cylinder that somehow out-brewed contraptions costing ten times as much. Engineers swore by it. Baristas co
5 Reasons to Brew With a Drip Coffee Maker
5 Reasons to Brew With a Drip Coffee Maker Image credit: Flux.1 For all the attention that pour-overs, espresso machines, and French presses get in
Caraway's Plastic-Free Coffee Maker Changes Morning Brews
Caraway's First-Ever Coffee Maker Is Gunning for the Plastic in Your Morning Brew Most men who take their coffee seriously have thought hard about the beans, the grind, the water temperature, the method. Very few have stopped to consider the miles of plastic tubing their boiling water passes throu
The Iced Coffee Interview Debate Dividing Gen Z and Recruiters
The $7 Latte That Launched a Thousand Arguments: Inside the Great Iced Coffee Interview Debate It started with a single TikTok video and a fairly mundane observation. Then it exploded into one of the more revealing cultural flashpoints of 2026 — a debate ostensibly about a cold beverage but actual
Who Really Makes Kirkland Cold Brew Coffee?
There's something almost ritualistic about a Costco run. You grab the flatbed cart, you wade through the oversized everything, you toss in a rotisserie chicken almost on autopilot, and then — if you're smart — you make your way to the beverage section. And somewhere in there, stacked in that no-non
8 Cozy Fall Bakes for Slow Mornings and Hot Coffee
8 Cozy Fall Bakes for Slow Mornings and Hot Coffee Image credit: Flux.1 There's a particular kind of morning that fall seems made for — the kind whe
Back-to-Back Storms Are Destroying Hawaii's Coffee Industry
No Breathing Room: Back-to-Back Storms Are Dismantling Hawaii's Coffee Industry in Real Time On the flanks of Mauna Loa and across the rolling highlands of Ka'u, coffee trees that took years to grow and longer to perfect are now lying on the ground. The 2026 hurricane season has turned into a rele
Starbucks Closes 250 Stores in Niccol's Bold Turnaround
Starbucks Is Cutting 250 Stores. Brian Niccol's Turnaround Is Getting Ruthless. Two years into one of the most closely watched corporate rehabilitation efforts in American business history, Starbucks is making its boldest pruning move yet. The Seattle-based coffee colossus announced this week that
Why Your Morning Coffee Now Costs More Than Ever
The Great Coffee Squeeze: Why Your Morning Cup Now Costs More Than Ever Something shifted at the grocery store, and most people felt it before they could explain it. The bag of ground coffee that used to slip into the cart without a second thought is now hard to ignore. The numbers back up that gu
