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This is one of the more common misconceptions of coffee’s effect on the body. Although it is true that caffeine and related compounds do have diuretic (urine forming due to increased blood flow to kidneys) action, us regular coffee drinkers likely do not feel those effects as our bodi...
By Mike Ebert, Alterra Coffee Roasters Personally, I was going to be a rock star, but coffee got in the way. Back in the late 80’s, there were few people who set out to make coffee their career, including me. It just wasn’t thought of as a career choice. Yes, you could open a small co...
By James Hoffmann, Co-Owner of Square Mile Coffee Roasters Disruptive innovation is often defined as the kind of innovation that creates new markets. Single serve coffee has certainly been such an innovation—and since its creation, it has seen incredible uptake amongst consumers and, ...
By Erin Meister, Counter Culture Coffee “When I retire, I want to open a coffee shop.” For years, those words rankled me. As a coffee professional with a decade’s worth of experience culled from trial and error (lots of error), I found the suggestion that someone would enter into coff...
As of June 1, 2013, the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) will be conducting all knowledge tests for their Certificate programs in a secure online format. This exciting new digital system will allow for easier participant access to tests as well as faster turnaround times...
By Thomas Hodges, Director of Coffee, Lamill Coffee I will begin and conclude this brief article with my own coffee-roasting axiom: “There is no substitute for time behind the iron.” In fact, Malcolm Gladwell’s recent book Outlier even talks about the “ten thousand-hour rule”, stating...
By Timothy J. Castle, President, Castle & Co. Are you thinking of making your way in the coffee business? If so, why? Can you answer that question? If you can’t, maybe stop reading until you can. What do you want the coffee business to give to you? If you’re still reading this, you ma...
The Roasters Guild, a trade guild of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), the world’s coffee knowledge leader and largest coffee trade association, held the annual Roasters Choice Competition at SCAA’s 25th Annual Exposition, April 11-14, 2013 in Boston, MA at the Bosto...
