Month: December 2025

The nonprofit Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE) released a preliminary schedule for its flagship Cup of Excellence (CoE) green coffee ...

Coffee research in 2025 ran the gamut from farm-level survival to consumer-side marketing trickery. Naturally, coffee also continued to be ...

Several brands best known for commercial cafe equipment pushed further into the home market this year, rolling out kitchen-friendly grinders ...

At its simplest, coffee only needs to be ground, mixed with water and filtered. But these aren’t simple times, and ...

The options for home coffee bars got deeper and more interesting in 2025, as both newcomers and legacy brands rolled ...

Some coffee careers start the “classic” way — behind a bar, learning the rhythm of service and operations. Others arrive ...

In 2025, some of the most memorable coffee-centered design projects were clearly built around the feelings designers wanted to inspire ...

Roasteries large and small grew increasingly full of hot air this year, with multiple innovations emerging from makers of fluid-bed ...

Underneath the dark cloud of tariffs that hung over the coffee industry for much of the year, the business of ...

Commercial coffee grinder makers this year sure gave them something to talk about, and by “them,” we mean the grinders. ...