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.

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, Forbes, Wired, and Bon Appétit all reviewed coffee subscriptions on taste. Here’s who came out on top — and why freshness was the deciding factor.

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.