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Weekly News Tasting: Extreme customer loyalty; tea-farm tourism expands

Posted: May 21, 2013
  Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif CAN'T LET GO: Atlanta independent Aurora Coffee closed...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Coffee prices inch up; Sri Lanka tea sellers push sex appeal

Posted: May 14, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif LOW TEMPS, HIGHER PRICES: After weeks of consistent C-market...More »

Weekly News Tasting: More venture capitalist cash hits specialty coffee; Arabica prices may go lower

Posted: May 07, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif CASH KEEPS COMING: San Francisco-based Philz Coffee, a Bay A...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Big profits at Starbucks, another store for G&B in Los Angeles

Posted: Apr 30, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif STARBUCKING THE TREND: A slow economy has meant struggle for...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Possible credit-card hack at Teavana, espresso-machine heist in Australia

Posted: Apr 23, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif TEAVANA HACKED? According to anonymous sources, the tea re...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Pete Licata wins USBC again

Posted: Apr 16, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Chris Ryan GLOBAL GATHERING: The SCAA held its annual Event last week...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Caribou shutters some stores, transforms others

Posted: Apr 09, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Chris Ryan CARIBOU SHAKEUP:  Minneapolis-based Caribou Coffee an...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Sustainable Harvest, FTUSA tackle leaf-rust crisis

Posted: Apr 02, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif ROYA RESPONSE: Portland-based importer Sustainable Harve...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Coffee consumption surges among Latinos

Posted: Mar 26, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif LATINO LIBATION: According to new stats form the National C...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Intelligentsia goes after former exec

Posted: Mar 19, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif ROASTER RUMBLE: Intelligentsia Coffee has filed a breach-of-co...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Colombia's coffee farmers end strike after nearly two weeks

Posted: Mar 12, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif STRIKING A DEAL: After nearly two weeks of work stoppages and prot...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Coffee-grower strikes rattle Colombia

Posted: Mar 05, 2013
Here's your look at the past seven days in specialty coffee and tea By Dan Leif GROWER UNREST: Coffee farmers in Colombia who have struggled t...More »

Weekly News Tasting: NERBC winners, Cuvee’s first retail shop, reasons to caffeinate

Posted: Feb 26, 2013
Here’s your look at the past seven days of headlines in specialty coffee and tea. By Dan Leif BEASTS OF THE NORTHEAST: Samuel Lewontin of...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Portland Roasting gets Oscar nod, Square eyes independents

Posted: Feb 19, 2013
Here’s your look at the past seven days of headlines in specialty coffee and tea. By Dan Leif ALREADY AN OSCAR WINNER: Portland Roasting ...More »

Weekly News Tasting: Coffee rust outbreak continues to devastate Central America

Posted: Feb 12, 2013
Here’s your look at the past seven days of headlines in specialty coffee and tea. By Dan Leif COFFEE RUST NOW A 'NATIONAL EMERGENCY': The...More »