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Why You Should Be Drinking Bird Friendly Coffee
You might see organic or fair trade certifications as you look for your next coffee, but bird-friendly brews will be harder to find …
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Impact Roasting: Electric & Local, with Bellwether Coffee
How is new electric roasting technology mitigating coffee’s historical carbon footprint? We talk to Bellwether Coffee to find out …
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Sustainable Sourcing: The Future of Specialty Coffee
Sustainable coffee sourcing starts at the farm, where the environmental and agricultural attributes of coffee are first determined …
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Sustainability as a Core Value
Specialty coffee roasters are making committments to eco-friendly business practices and the sustainability of coffee …
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What Coffee Means To Me – No. 6
The sixth installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
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What Coffee Means To Me – No. 5
The fifth installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
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What Coffee Means To Me – No. 4
The fourth installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
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Is Specialty Coffee a Commodity?
Is specialty coffee a commodity? Should it be priced as such? If so, how should stark differences in quality be accounted for? …
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What Coffee Means To Me – No. 3
The third installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
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What Coffee Means To Me – No. 2
The second installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
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What Coffee Means To Me – No. 1
The first installment in our reader-generated What Coffee Means To Me blog series …
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The Individuality of Taste
What factors contribute to the taste of coffee? Or rather, your perception of its taste? Will you taste the same notes as an expert? …
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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 …
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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 …
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Australia & Coffee, With Gumption Coffee
Conducting even a casual search of topics related to Australian coffee culture yields results with some pretty effusive language …