For paid subscribers: retail coffee prices have soared in recent years, driven by climbing commodity costs and tariff stupidity. Some of those pressures have now started to ease, and yet retail prices continue to rise. Will they ever come down?
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.
I'm a coffee writer and creator of The Pourover. Based in Scotland, I have over a decade of experience in the specialty coffee industry. Ask me about coffeewashing. It's pronounced Fin (he/him)
Fionn Pooler
