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The holidays are right around the corner—and they are going to be great this year, why wouldn’t they be great? I for one can’t wait to hear all the insightful, nuanced thoughts on current events after a few eggnogs free us all from that last little bit of discretion keeping us from saying what we’re really itching to. It’s going to be great.

Much like the season itself, the Summer of Sabrina has encroached on autumn territory and shows no signs of stopping. The Espresso singer and ice cream collaborator was recently nominated for pretty much every Grammy category known to man, and now, she’s the inspiration behind a coffee pop-up this week in Los Angeles. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet Cafe is taking over Verve Coffee ’s West Hollywood location, with a host of Sabrina-inspired drinks and merch.

We are in the thick of yet another season of The Great British Bake Off, the BBC via Netflix’s wildly popular baking show featuring some of the UK’s best amateur bakers vying for the praise—and handshakes—of esteemed judges Paul Hollywood and James Hoffmann Prue Leith

Perhaps the largest issue in coffee grinding today is grind retention. (We should all take a step back and appreciate the fact that home grinders have become so good in the past decade that grind size consistency is basically a given at this point, such that we have to find other things to fret over.) If I put 50 grams of coffee in the hopper, I want 50 grams out of the chute, the same 50 grams in fact. But static cling—produced when electrons are passed back and forth from coffee coming into contact with the burrs—often has other ideas.

One of the biggest challenges in coffee’s fight for carbon neutrality comes via transport. Coffee often goes from origin to importer/exporter to roaster and can hop oceans a number of times to do so. Generally, they travel by shipping container atop large, fossil fuel-burning cargo tankers and has been seen as a sort of necessary evil in the global coffee trade.

If I say the word “ acrylamide ” there’s a better than likely chance that 1.) you are a coffee drinker in California

The 2025 US Coffee Championships season is officially underway. Competition kicked off in Houston at the first weekend of November with the Regional Qualifier for the US Roasters Championship, followed shortly thereafter November 8th through 10th with the Regional for the Latte Art Championship in Lincoln, Nebraska. (You’d be forgiven for not being entirely locked in yet because of certain other major news events.)

For coffee professionals of a certain age, the name Batdorf & Bronson evokes some big time nostalgia. The cafe and roastery began life all the way back in the late-80s in Olympia, Washington. Created by Dick Batdorf and Shannon Bronson, the brand was one of the first specialty coffee brands to expand beyond state lines, opening up an East Coast operation in Atlanta in the mid-90s (many folks may actually know B&B more as an East Coast coffee roasters in fact).

The bean is dead, long live the seed!