The Coffee Smuggler of Boca Raton
For paid subscribers: A tale of international intrigue, bank fraud, and coffee smuggling from the 1980s that sounds like an episode of Miami Vice.
Does anyone want to buy my Starbucks NFT? . . . Anyone?
Another week, another smorgasbord of coffee news. What’s been going on?
Read the full Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
Last week, Fresh Cup also revamped and republished my piece about the Red Sea crisis and the coffee industry’s focus on shipping delays rather than the ongoing genocide in Gaza: read Coffee At Sea.
I’ll be back with a new article on Friday, but until then it’s goodbye from Merlin:
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