Space: The Final Coffee Frontier
For paid subscribers: From the preposterous tech startup that wanted to roast coffee in space to espresso on the International Space Station, there’s a lot of coffee up there.
My first Coffee News Year in Review for Fresh Cup Magazine is a big one, featuring an ascendant labor movement, the entanglement of the coffee industry with global geopolitics, and a whole bunch of pretty explicit coffeewashing.
Of course the most important question—was coffee good for you in 2022?—is also addressed.
Thanks for reading the Pourover this year,! I’ll be back in a couple of weeks, and until then it’s Happy Holidays from a sleepy Maru:

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