Lightyear’s Why
LYC’s goal is to bring visibility to small roasters who are at the frontier of sustainability and innovation in specialty coffee …
Guatemalan Coffee Roast Levels and Intrinsic Flavor
Roasting is one of the final steps in the long journey that coffee beans take from being planted to sold or brewed …
Ethiopian Coffee in US Roasting
As a global commodity, the market for coffee beans is large and dynamic, including dozens of exporting and importing countries …
Coffee Waves Explained: From Commodity to Chemistry
What wave of coffee is my latte from? That’s probably not a question you have asked at a coffee shop lately …
Coffee Packaging Trends | Savor Brands
Just as coffee itself is an art and a science, so too is coffee packaging. Whether you’re a coffee newbie or aficionado, coffee packaging trends are the first thing you’ll notice when exploring roasters and bean varieties. Design, function, and storytelling all collide in that first impression …
The Real Importance of Coffee Traceability
Traceability is a key part of understanding coffee and where it comes from, but the concept goes much deeper …
The Organic Coffee Certification and Traceability
We see it everywhere we buy food: Organic. The label that tells us those foods we eat — especially those tied to organic coffee certification — were cultivated according to USDA standards. But how strong are those standards, really? …
Why Coffee Is So Susceptible To Climate Change
As extreme weather events continue to produce historic floods, fires, and droughts around the world, it may seem rather inconsequential to talk about something like coffee …