How to Adjust Espresso Extraction & Create New Recipes
The extraction of your new single origin espresso is off: what do you do? Adjust the dose? Grind size? Water temperature? Or perhaps it’s about...
Coffee specialist at Alpro, coffee journalist who has written for global coffee magazines, and founder of the Kore Directive, U.K.
Planning For a Positive Work Culture in Your Coffee Shop
Demotivated employees, sloppy work, and resignations from your best team members: all things that can make a coffee shop unprofitable. And all of them can...
How To Build & Maintain a Relationship With Your Coffee Buyer
Do you have established buyers for your coffee, or are you looking to find them? A strong relationship with one or more buyers can increase...
Boosting Coffee Shop Profits Through Engaging Retail Offerings
Your shop’s been humming along smoothly for a while now. You have good coffee and a growing customer base that keeps coming back for more....
How Crop Diversification Can Counter Low Coffee Prices
In a context of extremely low coffee prices and uncertain weather conditions due to climate change, coffee producers take on risk with every investment in...
What Happened at The Producer & Roaster Forum 2019?
What happens when you bring together over 500 international coffee producers and roasters in one of the most established coffee-producing countries in the world? An...
Dialing In The Dollars: Tips For Serving a High-Value Coffee
It’s half an hour before the shop opens. You’re getting ready to dial in, staring down this bag of coffee that, after weeks and possibly...
Being Black in Specialty Coffee
Who do you picture when you think of a barista in specialty coffee? How about the average customer in a third wave coffee shop? Although...
Slavery & Specialty: Discussing Coffee’s Black History
When you reach for a bag of Brazilian roasted coffee or order a pour over from Colombia, you may consider yourself well-informed about its origins....
Drip and immersion brewing: A battle of two methods
Who doesn’t love a filter coffee? You can make it at home without needing a machine or order it in a cafe. It allows you...
Can Filter Basket Shape Affect The Flavor of Your Coffee?
When you think about what affects the flavor and profile of your coffee, you’re likely to consider brew ratio, grind size, water temperature, and water quality....
How to Plan For a Financially Successful Coffee Shop
Keeping your customers happy? That’s the easy part of running a coffee shop. Up to 60% of cafés and small restaurants close in their first...
MICE 2019: What Went Down Down Under?
Australia is well-known for its vibrant specialty coffee scene and, last week, the Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) 2019 celebrated this for the eighth year...
How to Create a Coffee Menu: A Guide for Restaurants & Bakeries
When it comes to your food, there’s no detail spared: the freshness of the ingredients, the seasoning and cooking method, the presentation are all considered....
Café Careers: How To Launch Your Own Specialty Coffee Shop
So, it’s time: you’ve secured the funding, you’ve made the business plan, and you’re ready to take the leap into opening your very own specialty...
Third Wave Meets Arabic Coffee in Kuwait
Coffee has long been part of the social fabric of Kuwaiti culture. For centuries, people have drunk traditional Arabic coffee to welcome people into their...