Buddhist Brews
For paid subscribers: A fascinating academic paper delves into the ways Korean Buddhists, after centuries of drinking tea, have started to embrace coffee.
It's decaf, but not as we know it (possibly good)
Fluctuating coffee prices, another coffee union in Louisville, and Kona coffee producers face a ‘farmageddon’. Plus a look at how technology could help improve decaf coffee.
Read the whole thing over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
I’ll be back on Friday with a new piece, but until then it’s goodbye from a pleased-looking Merlin:

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