Roasters Guild Trierside Chat: Regional Roasting Groups
Streamed live on Jun 29, 2016 Roasters Guild Trierside Chat explores regional roasting groups: the good, the bad, the ugly, and how to form one.
The WHO IARC Decision: What it Means for You & Your Coffee
By Emma Sage, SCAA Coffee Science Manager The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has announced that they are re-classifying coffee from a “group 2B” to a “group 3” substance (Loomis and others 2016). This means that coffee is in the clear and is no longer officially linked with being a …
Water in the Coffeelands: How Coffee Can Make Water Cleaner and Landscapes Greener
By Meredith Taylor Water management is a difficult issue to address in coffee-growing regions because many of the impacts tied to water pollution and shortages are often downstream from their causes—both literally and temporally. While the issues around water as it relates to coffee are complex, they fall into two basic, overlapping categories: having enough …
Reflections from the Farmworkers Sustainability Panel
By Miguel Zamora The issue of farmworkers was very present at this year’s SCAA Expo. The Sustainability Council of the SCAA organized a panel to discuss some of the challenges we face as an industry in this regard. This is the third year in a row that Sustainability Council members have moderated panels to discuss farmworkers and that …
SCAA Releases July 2016 Retail Sentiment Index (RSI) Report
SCAA’s Specialty Coffee Retail Sentiment Index (RSI) is a semiannual indicator that measures coffee retailers’ degree of optimism on their own situation and the industry. The purpose is to provide data that reflects the overall sentiment and, over time, it will be used to identify trends and offer insight on the segment’s movement. The RSI …
CoLab Paris 2015 – Afternoon Panel Q&A
All CoLab: Paris ‘coffeetalks’ – by speakers such as Klaus Thomsen, Katie Carguilo and Morten Münchow – were produced by our content partner Tamper Tantrum. We’ll be releasing the videos of these talks over the next months so we keep fuelling discussion and building an inventory of knowledge. Don’t hesitate to share your comments, thoughts or …
Green Coffee Buyers Are Searching Online—Will They Find You?
Sponsored story provided by Cropster. Roasted coffee options for consumers are exploding online. Specialty coffee shops and roasters offer every coffee imaginable, supermarkets and big box shops offer everything from instant through beans to pods through capsules – often selling all manner of coffee devices alongside. There are even subscription services that send consumers a …
Exploring the Cost of Sustainable Coffee Production, Part 2: A Recap from the SCAA Expo
By Ashley Prentice During SCAA Expo, two excellent sessions on the cost of sustainable coffee production were presented, but why is this topic important and relevant to our industry today? As Chad Trewick best explained it in his article, Why Learn About the Cost of Production (Read Here), “The coffee industry—and not only the specialty sector, …
Exploring the Cost of Sustainable Production, Part 1: Tactics and Output
By Vera Espindola “Exploring the Cost of Sustainable Production,” the second in a series of Sustainability sessions during the 2016 SCAA Expo, was an opportunity to share updates and information about ongoing research on the economics of coffee production. A panel representing research partnerships presented their indicators, methodologies and early findings. Presenter 1: Pascale Schuit | …
Michael Kiser | Cold Brew: Category or Craze?
Michael Kiser of Good Beer Hunting discusses the parallels between craft beer and the cold brew coffee category at Re:co Symposium Atlanta.
CoLab Paris 2015 – Morning Panel Q&A
All CoLab: Paris ‘coffeetalks’ – by speakers such as Klaus Thomsen, Katie Carguilo and Morten Münchow – were produced by our content partner Tamper Tantrum. We’ll be releasing the videos of these talks over the next months so we keep fuelling discussion and building an inventory of knowledge. Don’t hesitate to share your comments, thoughts or …
Dr. Maya Zuniga | Cold Brew: Category or Craze?
Dr. Maya Zuniga of S&D Coffee & Tea discusses the food safety aspect in addition to the unique challenges that arise in this method of brewing coffee at Re:co Symposium Atlanta.