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8. A barista should never utter these words: “We don’t do…” You can’t control all the weird things you’re asked by the public, but you can control how you respond. If someone says “can I get a triple caramel…

Fresh roasted coffee needs more than a few minutes to rest before brewing. It doesn’t take a Director of Advancing Ingenuity and Developing Brilliance to tell you that. Entertaining video, beautiful device, terrible coffee. Best served for roasting Kopi Luwak, on your…

Full immersion + filter + ice = Summer of Hoffmann! The idea with this is to brew double strength coffee straight onto ice. As the ice melts it chills and dilutes the coffee back to more normal strengths. Often…

If you open up 16,000+ locations, this sort of thing is bound to happen: A 38-year-old man plunged to his death near a coffee shop in Manhattan yesterday, police said, after leaping from an upper East Side building just after 6 p.m.…

Australia. The people who brought us Emily Oak, Scottie Callaghan, and the Flat White (not really) have made a coffee name for themselves yet again. A team of twelve Aussies just entered the Guiness Book of Records for largest…

In which Melbourne barista Meghan Lodwick declares herself to be bitchy, gives up coffee, drinks tea for a week, mellows out, and decides that caffeine is the devil, before eventually going back to coffee. By the end of the…

The fine folks at Coffeekids.com, “a non-profit organization established to help coffee-farming families improve the quality of their lives”, have offered up a lovely online auction over at eBay. Yours for the taking: * multiple Behmor home roasters *…

Oy! Tally-ho, blokes and birds. Fancy a map to guide you ’round the tube to all of the hottest shoppes in London? Look no further, the queue starts here and leads you directly over to this fabulous WBC web…

Backwoods bloggers DirtyCup.com and noted UK gadabout Stephen Leighton have joined forces to worship at the squirming, writhing blog altar of our almighty King, the Internet. I think that the roast style has nothing to do with the brew…

This year’s competitors! Day One 8:47AM – Agne Dirsaite, Sviezia Kava, Lithuania 9:04AM – Mie Nakahara, Maruyama Coffee, Japan 9:21AM – Alberto Mavorga, ACEN, Nicaragua 9:38AM – Izabela Popiolek, Green Coffee, Poland 9:55AM – Manish Gurung, Café Coffee Day,…

Alex Negranza, co-founder of Seattle’s whynotcoffee.com, has recently posted a rather controversial dissection of the Barista Guild of America. Writing from an admittedly outsider perspective, Mr. Negranza voiced a critique on what he feels is a profound lack of…

The coolest people in the world live in Brooklyn. This is not up for debate; Brooklyn functions as a magnetic polar pulley for the hip, the jake, those who’ve “got it” and know what “it” is in the first…

CoffeeFest Minneapolis is just a few short days away. CoffeeFest is a thrice-annual trade show for specialty coffee going strong since 1992. At this event excitement is brewing over a reformatted Millrock Latte Art Championship (with a grand prize…

Stay-at-home-barista Joy Chalk has made a number of new friends with Cup of Joe For Joe, a program that puts coffee in the hands of American soldiers for $2 a cup. Her son is currently serving a tour of…

“If you think about anything long enough, parts of it will annoy you.” This statement perfectly sums up the content Esquire.com’s recent piece on specialty coffee, “Back to the Future: The Coming Coffee Revolution“. Written by former Seattle-area bean…

Stumptown Coffee Roasters opened a temporary pop-up shop in the Sid Lee at 101 Albert Cuypstraat earlier this month. Stumptown baristas Jennifer, Katie and Robyn are all blogging about their experiences as expats in Amsterdam. Netherbrew – Jen’s personal…