To Blend or Not to Blend

This post is an exploration of Blending: why businesses blend coffee, why I believe some roasters choose to blend, and why others don’t. I also suggest why blending has a bad rep within the Specialty Industry. For a very long time “coffee” was a...

WBC 2016 Rules Shake-up

Just before the weekend you may have stumbled upon a press release from World Coffee Events. It details some significant rule changes to the World Barista Championship for 2016 onwards. See the article here. I’d like to spend this week exploring and discussing...
Brew Local, Act global

Brew Local, Act global

Could even extractions save the industry? Yes. Sort Of. This is a condensed version of a talk I gave in Shanghai and Taipei last year for Tamper Tantrum. If you’d like to see the original – where I talk about extraction and include some more detail –...