Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending November 3rd

Right, so anyway what’s going on in coffee land?

• Rwanda is making some regulatory changes to try to boost coffee production, and especially specialty production, after several years of falling yields. One update is a higher export tariff on natural and semi-washed process coffee compared to fully-washed—a tariff that specialty-grade coffee is immune from entirely.
• If you’ve been grocery shopping in the US recently, you’ll probably have noticed that everything is ridiculously expensive. Coffee is part of this trend, with sales falling but prices going up, up, up.
• And adding a little sugar to your coffee isn’t the end of the world, according to new research from Denmark. The study found that men who added a small amount of sugar to their morning brew had no “significant risk” to health. (Although it’s worth noting that this study comes with some pretty large caveats.)

Read the full Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:

I’ll be back on Friday with a new Pourover article, but until then it’s goodbye from Merlin: