by andrew | Nov 20, 2013 | business, featured, industry, news, quality
I was quoted in an article this evening on Marketwatch.com about the phenomenal growth of the single-serve (capsules and pods) coffee market, led by Nespresso pods and Keurig K-Cups, which is now estimated to have tripled since 2011. Could it ever beat a freshly...
by andrew | Aug 7, 2013 | featured, hawaii, industry, origin
The latest issue of Australia’s Cafe Culture Magazine includes an article that I wrote for them about the Hawaii coffee industry, called “A Postcard from Hawaii.” I’ve lived in Hawaii now for about 10 years and like others who have spent any...
by andrew | Sep 23, 2012 | economy, featured, industry, quality |
Last week I was surprised when my colleague Shawn Steiman pointed out that our mutual friend Miles Small of CoffeeTalk Magazine had published a scathing editorial commentary about the recent surge of interest in Fine Robusta coffee among specialty coffee roasters....
by andrew | Jun 4, 2012 | business, featured, ideas, news, quality, retail
The May 2012 issue of Specialty Coffee Retailer magazine included an article on the topic of effectively implementing a single origin coffee program (or single source, as they call it) in retail coffee shops. The full article is included here, as are my notes from the...
by andrew | Dec 31, 2011 | economy, featured, industry, origin, quality, retail |
The January / February 2012 issue of Roast Magazine includes a feature Specialty Coffee’s New Frontier article about the emerging coffee markets of China, the Middle East, India and Russia titled, “The New Frontier.” This handy introduction to...
by andrew | Dec 7, 2011 | featured, industry, oddities, origin, quality, retail |
Kopi Luwak coffee. You’ve heard of it before: the coffee consumed and excreted by palm civet cats in Southeast Asia, washed off by resourceful locals, and served by annoying dinner hosts to their unsuspecting guests for the sole purpose of...