specialty coffee
Stories tagged “specialty coffee”
Cauca coffee sells for a record $400 a pound in Colombia
A washed Castillo lot from a small farm in Rosas sold for nearly six times the auction's average price, part of a record week for Colombian specialty coffee.
World Barista Championship debuts in Panama
Panama City hosts the Specialty Coffee Association's flagship contest for the first time, with more than 50 national champions competing at World of Coffee.
Blue Bottle opens in Bangkok under a sculpted paper lantern
Blue Bottle Coffee's first two Bangkok cafés opened in August; the EmQuartier flagship now draws design attention for a teak-and-lantern interior by Tokyo studio I IN.
Phil & Sebastian's Project III sends one farm to three roasters
Calgary's Phil & Sebastian, Proud Mary and MAME each roast a different lot from Panama grower Ratibor Hartmann, sold together as a $170 CAD box set.
Blueprint Coffee passes its tariff refunds back to customers
The St. Louis roaster says it will not keep money refunded after a Supreme Court ruling, arguing the people who paid the tariffs should get it back.
A coffee watch Kickstarter raises six times its goal
Chronofuns' Coffee in Motion Chronograph puts a mechanical movement, bean-shaped hour markers and a swirling espresso subdial on the wrist.
US Barista Championship opens registration on 16 September
Two qualifiers in Houston and San Diego, 48 seats between them, and a national final at Pinewood Coffee in Franklin, Tennessee, at the end of January.
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