Why You Should Be Drinking Shade-Grown Coffee
With all the reasons coffee has been in the news lately (droughts in Brazil, price fluctuations, precarious forecasts due to climate change), you’d be forgiven for not seeing any immediate link to migratory bird habitats …
Impact Roasting: Electric & Local, with Bellwether Coffee
How is new roasting technology mitigating coffee’s historical carbon footprint? We talk to Bellwether Coffee to find out …
Sustainable Sourcing: The Future of Specialty Coffee
The coffee farm is where the story of sustainability starts …
Sustainability as a Core Value
Specialty coffee roasters are embracing eco-friendly business practices as a core part of their operations …
What Coffee Means To Me – No. 6
The sixth installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
What Coffee Means To Me – No. 5
The fifth installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
What Coffee Means To Me – No. 4
The fourth installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
Is Specialty Coffee a Commodity?
Does specialty coffee fit the definition of a true commodity? …
What Coffee Means To Me – No. 3
The third installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
What Coffee Means To Me – No. 2
The second installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
What Coffee Means To Me – No. 1
The first installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
The Individuality of Taste
The beans that went into the cup of coffee you just enjoyed went through years of cultivation, a meticulous harvesting process, a journey overseas of thousands of miles, and perhaps dozens of roasting trials …
Beer and Coffee: The Best of Both Worlds, with Prairie Artisan Ales – Part 2
Amongst all the great beers I mentioned in Part 1 of this post, there is one additional beer that resonates with me the most – Bomb! by Prairie Artisan Ales out of Tulsa, Oklahoma …
Beer and Coffee: The Best of Both Worlds, with Prairie Artisan Ales – Part 1
On Lightyear we exhibit just how complex coffee is, from its composition to how it may be processed or roasted. The possible flavor and appearance outcomes of a brewed cup of coffee are seemingly endless. It’s much the same with beer. From ingredient sourcing, to chemistry, to fermentation, brewing beer is a maze of artistry, experience, trial and error, and hard science …
Australia & Coffee, With Gumption Coffee
Conducting even a casual search of topics related to Australian coffee culture yields results with some pretty effusive language …