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...

Riverside Blues: Arcade Coffee Roasters

Sometimes the Inland Empire just can’t catch a break. A bright spot in the Southern California desert’s emerging coffee scene—a way first paved by now well-known names like Klatch Coffee and Augies—hit a setback last...
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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....

Daily Planet Serves Music Appreciation with Its Coffee

Before Mike Caputi was a business professor and owner of North Buffalo's Daily Planet Coffee Company, he was an accomplished drummer, one who smashed snares and cymbals inside downtown clubs and out-of-state Holiday Inns. It...

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...

The Perfect Cup of Coffee

Dante Cagliari has tried south Indian filter coffee. The grimace on his face indicates he does n’t particularly like it. For the seventy-six year old roast-master from Modena, Italy, coffee is a shot...
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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...

Life of Blends

When I think about coffee, I tend to think about the people who drink it, not about the beans, or the farm, or the beans or the brewing. About a week ago, I came to...

April Coffee From Patrik Rolf Karlsson

At just 26 years old, native Swede Patrik Rolf Karlsson has already built himself an impressive resume in the world of coffee. An alumnus of prestigious European roasters da Matteo (Helsingborg) and Five Elephant...

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