Lightyear’s Mission
LYC’s mission is to bring visibility to small roasters who are at the frontier of sustainability and innovation in specialty coffee …
Roasting 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 …
Global Coffee Exports vs. U.S. Roasting
As a global commodity, the market for coffee beans is large and dynamic, including dozens of exporting and importing countries …
The Waves of Coffee
What wave of coffee is my latte from? That’s probably not a question you have asked at a coffee shop lately …
The Future of Coffee Packaging – An Interview With 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, packaging is the first thing you will see as you research and explore different types of coffees and roasters …
Why Traceability Matters
Traceability is a key part of understanding coffee and where it comes from – but why is that important? Why should we care? …
Traceability and the Organic Certification
We see it everywhere we buy food: Organic. The label that tells us those foods we eat, grown in fields we’ve probably never seen, were cultivated in accordance with US Department of Agriculture organic standards …
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, in these life-and-death contexts …