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Local Entrepreneur Roasting Own Coffee Beans

Ryan Smith poses for a photo with a cup of his home-roasted Smitty Bean coffee. There was beeping in the background as Ryan Smith was wrapping up his interview about his new coffee roasting business...
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Black Lodge Coffee Roasters in New Harmony

The whiff of roasted coffee, the crackling sound and the intoxicating aroma is simply bliss. Situated in the historic Cooper Building bearing a unique logo, Black Lodge Coffee Roasters has a perfectly amalgamated rustic-contemporary ambience....

10 Of The Most Environmentally Friendly Roasters In The U.S.

We’ve previously reporting on the potentially devastating effects climate change may have on coffee production. As temperatures rise, land that was once arable for coffee production no longer will be, and there is even...

San Francisco Legacy Business: Henry’s House of Coffee

In a first for the Outer Sunset, Henry's House of Coffee (1618 Noriega St.) has been named to San Francisco's Legacy Business Registry. The neighborhood coffee roaster and cafe has been in business since 1983. In...

Local Coffee Roaster Joins Butcher Block

Buy PhotoRed Hot Roasters co-owners and siblings, Sondra Powell, left, and Jason Powell opened their small batch coffee shop in 2006 and added a drive-thru in 2007. "Of course, we love...

Organic Coffee Roaster Switches to Green Polyethylene

For the first time, a coffee roaster has opted to start using Braskem’s I’m Green Polyethylene for its coffee packaging. The Dutch coffee refinery Peeze started replacing its fossil-based packaging with laminated packaging partially...

Revo Coffee: A Garage Roaster In Santos, Brazil

The port of Santos, Brazil. Vitor Ladaga, Lucas de Lorena, Rômulo Targon, and Vinícius Gomes are four friends in their mid-20s who have one thing in common: they all want their hometown, Santos, to be...

Bean Box Growing Tech Start-up Ambitions in Capitol Hill’s Coffee

Capitol Hill’s auto row was created by entrepreneurs launching start-ups, of sorts. One modern vestige of the era has made a home for a set of...

Oak Lawn Coffee Makes A Pumpkin Spice Latte That’s Actually Good

  When I was in college, there was a happy little Starbucks at the edge of campus where everyone gathered before and after class to study and decompress. As fall crept in and temperatures dropped,...

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