The Brew Blog

Ethiopia is where coffee comes from. Not in the soft sense — in the literal one. Coffea arabica is native to the highlands of southwestern Ethiopia.

"Single origin" is one of those phrases that has a narrow technical meaning and a wider colloquial one. Both are in active use, and they don't always line up.

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

Competition coffee is different. It's a specific, narrow, and verifiable claim: a coffee — or a roaster — that has been judged by a professional panel of judges.

The word 'curated' gets stretched thin in the coffee subscription world. Almost every service calls itself curated in some sense.

CNN Underscored named Podium Coffee Club the best-tasting coffee subscription of 2026. See the full critical verdict from CNN, Forbes, Wired, and Bon Appétit.