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.
Who the coffee industry chooses to support, and who it ignores, speaks volumes.
We're losing insect pollinators at an alarming rate, and that's bad for coffee.
Although it produces some of the world's best coffee, domestic consumption in Kenya remains low. A new generation of coffee professionals wants to change that.
Unbranded Starbucks stores divided opinion back in the 2000s, and there are echoes in modern corporate-backed specialty companies like Intelligentsia and Blue Bottle.
A coffee producer with a simple and affordable redistribution plan struggles to find industry backing.
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