Zac Cadwalader

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!

The price of Arabica coffee on the commodities market reached a near 50-year high last week. On Friday, November 29th, Arabica closed at an astounding $3.31 per pound, the highest it has been since 1977. The driver of this record? Uncertainty.

Ethical and sustainable coffee production is a major selling point for both micro-roasters and multi-national corporations alike. It’s why brands like Starbucks and Nestle—two of the world’s largest coffee companies—have created certifications to attest to the responsible production, both in terms of the land it is grown on and the people who work it, their coffees undergo.

Coffee gear ahoy!

24 more coffee professionals have punched their tickets to the national stage of competition for the 2025 US Coffee Championships. The fifth Regional Qualifying Event took place over the weekend at Messenger Coffee/The Roasterie in Kansas City, Missouri, holding competitions for the Barista Championship, Brewers Cup, and Coffee in Good Spirits.

The health benefits of coffee are myriad. They’ve been parsed out by scientists in about as many ways as there are parts of the human anatomy. Three cups a day to help with the cartilage in your left knee. Four cups for your cochlea. You name it. But what’s the actual impact? What does it all come to? Nearly two extra years of life, it turns out. A new meta-study finds that regular coffee consumption is linked with an increased life expectancy by 1.8 years, and good years at that.