The Brew Blog

"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.

The old triad of washed, natural, and honey processing has been joined by a new vocabulary: anaerobic, carbonic maceration, co-fermentation, thermal shock, lactic, yeast-inoculated.

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.