Nick Brown, Author at Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine

Coffee roasting giant Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA has agreed to pay $65,000 plus additional relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

When you read about, write about and generally obsess over coffee for approximately 362 days a year, it can be easy to forget that it is just a blip on...

Now in its sixth year, the World Coffee Roasting Championship (WCRC) for 2018 is heading to Rimini, Italy, in conjunction with the Sigep hospitality industry conference on Jan. 19-23, 2019....

On this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray get to know Long Beach, California-based roaster/retailer Recreational Coffee, created by the married team of Bobby and Correne Hernandez. To answer...

Despite steady acclaim and fiercely loyal patronage for their first three Los Angeles-area multiroaster coffee shops — G&B Coffee at Grand Central Market and Go Get Em Tiger (GGET) locations...

First established in the 1960s and completed just over a century ago, the Embarcadero Seawall has been a marvel of engineering in San Francisco, serving as an historically and culturally...

Starbucks has opened for the first time in Italy, a country the company repeatedly has described as humbling for its longstanding espresso and cafe culture. “We have taken our time...

Nestlé-owned pod coffee giant Nespresso has announced plans to buy more than 95 percent of the “high-quality coffee production” from Zimbabwean smallholder farmers in 2018. The purchase is part of...

More than 60 national Aeropress champions have been crowned this year, and the bulk of them will be trying to press their way to the top at the 11th annual...

Research published today suggests that people with chronic kidney disease who drink coffee are, on the whole, likely to outlive non coffee drinkers. Published in the journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation by researchers...

Passion House Coffee Roasters cafe bar in Chicago

When the now 7-year-old Chicago company Passion House Coffee Roasters swung open the doors to its first cafe in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood last May, it had many of a specialty...

In the United States, the proliferation of commercial co-roasting spaces with legit equipment, adequate production and storage space, green coffee sourcing opportunities and knowledgeable staff has largely taken place on...

With commodity coffee prices at historic lows in terms of real dollars, coffee sector leaders in El Salvador have turned to tech in an attempt to provide increased specialty market...

Equator coffees and teas san rafael california

This week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee includes an extensive sit-down with specialty coffee trailblazer Helen Russell, who along with business partner Brooke McDonnell has built San Rafael, California-based Equator Coffees...

After first slow-diving into commercial coffee roasting for wholesale and for sales direct to consumers more than two years ago, Lincoln, Nebraska-based Meta Coffee Lab is now dipping its toes into the...

As the world’s largest coffee-producing country by volume, Brazil is an origin that has been named in virtually every story about coffee’s woefully low price in the commodities market. Yet...

At its 15th Let’s Talk Coffee global event today in Cartagena, Colombia, green coffee importer Sustainable Harvest announced the launch of a three-year program worth $2 million designed to assist...

The coffee industry has traditionally and conveniently placed coffee varieties and cultivars into one of two simple categories when considering plants’ natural resistance to leaf rust disease: 1) resistant, or...

A year and a week after Hurricane Maria wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico and its people, destroying most of the territory’s coffee crop in the process, Starbucks has announced it...

A record-breaking nine coffees in this year’s Cup of Excellence competition in Colombia scored 90 points or above, as scored by an experienced international jury. The nine lots — including...

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