For paid subscribers: The coffee industry is embracing automation, and consumers increasingly demand convenience and speed. Me? I’m happy to wait for my coffee to be made by a human.
A story in the Guardian highlighted the extent of debt bondage among India’s coffee workers.
Gossip column Page Six reported that Snoop Dogg has dropped his coffee brand INDOxyz just six months after confidently stating that, “Indo is going to change the industry, I can promise you that.”
And “beanless” coffee returned to the news. This time, it’s because molecular coffee company Atomo is launching its first “coffee” and telling everyone who will listen how sustainable it is compared to regular coffee farming. Of course, it’s more complicated than that.
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)
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