The Brew Blog

The best light roast coffee subscriptions of 2025. We’ll cover how to choose the right subscription, and what to expect from flavor and freshness.

The US Coffee Championships Roasting Championship — how it works, what it tests, and why a USCC medal is one of the strongest single quality signals in American specialty coffee.

Roast level determines whether you taste the coffee or the roast. Here's how light, medium, and dark roasting mask or reveal what's actually in the bean.

There are, by most industry estimates, somewhere north of 10,000 coffee roasters operating in the United States.

For coffee enthusiasts, a good way to think about the landscape is this: coffee competitions are a set of lenses. Each one shows you something useful, but not everything.

The 15-15-15 rule is a freshness guideline for coffee lovers. Here’s what each “15” stands for.