For paid subscribers: A fascinating academic paper delves into the ways Korean Buddhists, after centuries of drinking tea, have started to embrace coffee.
Demand for coffee is growing, and climate change threatens supply—yet consumers don’t want to pay more. In an intensified and unequal industry, however, someone always pays.
A naturally-decaffeinated coffee is a step closer to reality as a decades-long project in Brazil finally begins field tests. Just another few years to get a harvest...
Nestlé wants to close its last US-based coffee plant, which would mean eliminating 200 unionized jobs in New Jersey. The Teamsters are trying to stop it from doing so.
And, in a shameless piece of PR (which I wrote about, so joke’s on me), Peet’s is “hiring” what they’re calling a “Chief Cold Brew Officer”—for the summer, anyway. Oh and it’s not paid, unless you count exposure and $200 worth of cold brew every week.
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)
