Recent Coffee Articles

Brussels Just Crowned Three New World Coffee Champions — Here's Everything You Need to Know Coffee's most competitive weekend of the year just wrapped up in Belgium, and the specialty coffee world now has three new titleholders to celebrate. Not one, not two, but three World Coffee Championships c

Roasting Plant Coffee Is Going Global — And It's Bringing Its Robot Barista With It In a specialty coffee industry crowded with third-wave roasters, subscription services, and artisanal pop-ups, one brand has always stood apart by doing something no one else had the audacity — or the engineering c

The Weather Pattern That Moves Markets: El Niño Returns and Coffee Prices Feel It Immediately There is a moment in every coffee market cycle when the mood shifts from cautious optimism to something closer to alarm. That moment arrived this week when the Japan Meteorological Agency officially confi

Your Morning Cup Just Got a Lot More Serious Coffee has always been America's alarm clock — the non-negotiable ritual that separates the sleeping from the functional. But a growing number of men are no longer satisfied with a simple jolt of caffeine. They want their morning brew to pull double dut

The Great Coffee Paradox: Record Harvests, Stubborn Prices, and a Market That Won't Cooperate There is something almost defiant about the global coffee market right now. By every traditional economic measure, prices should be falling. Brazil is staring down what analysts expect to be a historic ha

Is Your Coffee Grinder Ruining Your Morning? Let's get one thing straight right out of the gate — if you're spending good money on quality coffee beans and then throwing them into a cheap blade grinder, you are absolutely wasting your time and your money. That little spinning-blade contraption sit

Black Rifle Coffee: More Than Just a CupBlack Rifle Coffee: More Than Just a Cup If you caught any of the coverage from the White House lawn this past weekend, you probably noticed something a little unexpected plastered behind the jump ramp — the logo of a coffee company. Not Nike. Not Monster En

Brazil's Bumper Harvest Is Hammering Coffee Futures — And Your Morning Cup Might Actually Get Cheaper The global coffee market is in the middle of a dramatic reset. After arabica prices rocketed to record highs above $4.40 per pound in early 2025 — a run that left roasters scrambling, retailers qu

The Lab That Could Save Your Morning Coffee and Your Chocolate Fix Two of the most dependable daily pleasures in an American man's life — the first cup of coffee and the square of dark chocolate snapped off at the end of a long day — are facing an existential threat that has nothing to do with pri

Your Coffee Is Lying to You About Bitterness Every morning, for probably longer than you can remember, you've picked up that mug and taken the first hit of the day. Maybe it's black, maybe it's got a splash of cream. Maybe you've been grinding your own beans for the past decade and consider yourse