Oakland, California-based Royal Coffee recently opened a new office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a stated goal to become “the leading American importer of Ethiopian coffee.” The genetic birthplace of...
Author: Daily Coffee News Staff
Posted: April 30, 2025, 4:55 pm
During its flagship North American trade show, executive leaders of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) and the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) signed a memorandum of understanding surrounding widespread implementation...
Author: Nick Brown
Posted: April 30, 2025, 4:19 pm
Research recently presented in the journal of the nonprofit Alzheimer’s Association provides fresh evidence that drinking coffee leads to a reduced risk of dementia. Led by a team at Zhejiang...
Author: Daily Coffee News Staff
Posted: April 30, 2025, 3:51 pm
Chinese coffee equipment maker WPM is introducing a single-group espresso machine called Primus that blurs the line between its home and professional use while bringing extraction parameters into sharp digital...
Author: Howard Bryman
Posted: April 30, 2025, 2:18 pm
On Thursday, April 23, the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) announced it is taking over what’s known as “the Q,” the flagship education and certification platform of the nonprofit Coffee Quality Institute....
Author: Nick Brown
Posted: April 29, 2025, 7:40 pm
Six weeks prior to opening his first coffee shop, the owner of the new EveryPerson Café in downtown Ottawa turned to the one place on the internet where honesty and...
Author: Daria Toptygina
Posted: April 29, 2025, 6:37 pm
Small roasters drew some of the largest crowds at the 2025 SCA Expo in Houston over the weekend. (Read all of DCN’s 2025 Expo coverage.) Two relatively compact machines, one...
Author: Howard Bryman
Posted: April 28, 2025, 10:29 pm
Due to rising temperatures and climate change, small-scale coffee farmers in Colombia are increasingly planting cacao. Cacao faces fewer immediate challenges compared to coffee, which is prone to pests and...
Author: Victor Raison
Posted: April 28, 2025, 8:32 pm
The first two days of the 2025 Specialty Coffee Expo in Houston provided thousands of coffee professionals with a Texas-sized platform for sensory exploration, equipment demos, endless hand-shaking, innovation and...
Author: Daily Coffee News Staff
Posted: April 27, 2025, 2:05 pm
The U.S.- and Europe-based Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) announced it is taking over management of the Q Grader program beginning Oct. 1, 2025. The Q program has been the flagship...
Author: Nick Brown
Posted: April 25, 2025, 12:17 pm
