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?
Liberica, a newly rediscovered coffee species, could help the industry combat climate change. Meanwhile, Hawaiian officials mull releasing a tiny parasitic wasp to fight the coffee berry borer beetle, and workers at Intelligentsia in Chicago have ratified their first contract, a process that took less than two months.
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)
