The Brew Blog

You bought the bag that promised blueberry and jasmine, and it tasted like... coffee. Here's what's really going on with tasting notes — and how to actually find them.

Colombia is the most famous coffee origin in the world. It's also the most misunderstood. "Colombian coffee" covers an enormous range.

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.