The Coffee Smuggler of Boca Raton
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Welcome to the last Coffee News Roundup of 2023! After a festive break, I’ll be back with the much-anticipated (I assume) Coffee News Year in Review on January 1st.
But before that, here’s what’s been going on over the past week:
Related reading:
Read the full Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
Thanks for reading the Pourover in 2023! I’ll be back on Friday with that aforementioned slightly redirected article on Starbucks, but until then it’s goodbye from Merlin:
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