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Video of the Week

Posted: Jul 30, 2010
A coffee lover learns from the ground up This week’s video spotlight goes to the Behind the Beans YouTube channel, which features a series o...More »

From Harlem to Harrar

Posted: Jul 27, 2010
Development funds for coffee farmers can come from a variety of places—governments, aid groups and coffee companies themselves are typical s...More »

Video of the Week: Cold Brew Demo

Posted: Jul 22, 2010
A Cold Brew Demo From Rex Roasting Company Now that we’re into midsummer, we figured it was fitting to focus on the chiller side of cof...More »

Is Kau the new Kona in Hawaii?

Posted: Jul 21, 2010
The second-annual Hawaiian coffee cupping competition took place this weekend, and hawaiinewsnow.com reports the winner came from a surprising district...More »

Video of the Week

Posted: Jul 08, 2010
  This witty yet informative clip from Frank coffee shop in Austin, Texas, is a great example of how a café can leverage online video to s...More »

Barista competition curveball

Posted: Jul 06, 2010
Michael Phillips’ victory at last month’s World Barista Championship may have brought the 2009-10 competition season to a close, but it did...More »

Video of the Week: A look inside Queens’ Dallis Coffee

Posted: Jul 02, 2010
Foodie video blog Ozersky.tv takes a stroll through one of the country’s oldest quality-focused roasters, Dallis Coffee. Highlights include insig...More »

Strada's a must-have! (Until the next must-have comes out)

Posted: Jun 30, 2010
It’s time to meet the current cool-coffee-thing of the moment. Once upon a time it was the Clover. Last year it was the Slayer. Now the object of...More »

Tamper Authority Branches Out: Reg Barber talks about designing the WBC trophies

Posted: Jun 29, 2010
Fresh Cup editor Chris Ryan has been in London for the past week, taking in the World Barista Championship and SCAE conference. He recently caught up w...More »

Kaminsky hopes eat-nothing approach lifts him in London

Posted: Jun 24, 2010
LONDON -- The United States has only been participating in the World Cup Tasters Championship since 2009, but in the two competitions since then, one n...More »

Video of the Week: The WBC, live from London

Posted: Jun 23, 2010
    Yeah, some people might be in a tizzy over this World Cup soccer thing, but we know which international competition you coffee professi...More »

Video of the Week: Riding with 'Road Drips'

Posted: Jun 17, 2010
Thanks for checking out our second installment of Video of the Week. This time around we direct you to a recent episode of “Road Drips,” an...More »

Car smashes into San Francisco's Samovar

Posted: Jun 15, 2010
Not much has slowed down San Francisco’s high-flying Samovar Tea Lounge over the past few years, but on Sunday the shop’s Sanchez Street lo...More »

Talking strategy for ending farmers' hunger

Posted: Jun 11, 2010
Much has been written and discussed when it comes to the seed-to-cup trip that coffee beans make. One aspect of the journey that sometimes goes unnotic...More »

Luring in locavores

Posted: Jun 10, 2010
  Entrepreneur.com has details on an interesting study that aims to explain why shoppers choose to frequent local shops and buy locally made prod...More »