For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
The coffee scene in Dubai is thriving, and the city is set to welcome the Specialty Coffee Association’s World of Coffee event next month. But underneath the glitzy facade and marketing buzz lies a moral quagmire.
Coffee companies are raising money to assist those affected by the wildfires on Maui
The quality of natural-processed coffees from Brazil has improved to the point that they are passing the Intercontinental Exchange’s gradings and being used to settle arabica contracts on the commodity C market
And hard coffee is back, baby: Dunkin’ is launching a new line of “spiked” coffee and tea ready-to-drink beverages, nearly a year after the demise of PBR’s hard coffee.
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