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.
A slow week for coffee news, but nonetheless I found stuff to write about:
Read the full Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
I also wrote another article for Fresh Cup, about Instagram and direct trade in coffee:
I’ll be back on Friday with a new Pourover article, but until then it’s goodbye from a disdainful Merlin:
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