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DCN’s Ultimate Step-By-Step Holiday Coffee Buying GuideDaily Coffee News by Roast Magazine
What is a perfect coffee to give the coffee lover in my life? What palate-pleasing coffee should I buy for my discerning in-laws? What is the best coffee right now? How do I buy sustainable coffee? As the golden wings of commerce spread over the coffee landscape this time of year, these are the kinds of questions we routinely field at DCN. For a relatively simple comestible — ground coffee meets water, solids are strained, and a brown liquid remains — the coffee industry has managed to fabricate a complex labyrinth through which conscientious consumers must navigate. This leads holiday
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Lake County News,California – Starbucks opens in Clearlake; more coffee shops in the planning stages
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Clearlake’s new Starbucks has opened its doors, with other coffee house projects also in the works and the potential for still more such businesses to be based in the city. Starbucks, located next to Carl’s Junior on Dam Road Extension and next to the Walmart shopping center, was open for business on Monday. Clearlake Mayor Dirk Slooten said the new store has 27 good-paying jobs. “We’re really excited about it,” he said. The work on the new coffee house broke ground in May. Originally reported as having a September opening date, City Manager Alan Flora said
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10+ best Black Friday coffee machine deals 2021: Keurig, Breville and more
Many of us take our coffee pretty seriously, and with the holidays quickly approaching, there’s a good chance that someone on your gift list is a java lover — or is depending on it to get through such a hectic season. To put Americans’ love of coffee into context: In a 2021 survey from the National Coffee Association, 60 percent of more than 1,500 respondents said they’d had a cup of coffee in the past day — fewer than half of the respondents said they’d had water over the previous day. Retailers from Amazon to Walmart have dropped prices
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Higher Coffee Consumption Associated with Reduced Risk of Alzheimer’sDaily Coffee News by Roast Magazine
Research into 200 Australians and their coffee habits over the course of a decade has associated higher coffee consumption with slower cognitive decline. “We found participants with no memory impairments and with higher coffee consumption at the start of the study had lower risk of transitioning to mild cognitive impairment — which often precedes Alzheimer’s disease — or developing Alzheimer’s disease over the course of the study,” lead researcher Samantha Gardener of Australia’s Edith Cowan University (ECU) said in an announcement of the research paper, which was published last week. The ECU study follows a plethora of studies in
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Inflation is coming for your cup of coffee next
Coffee futures climbed on Thursday to the highest level since January 2012. It’s just the latest spike for a commodity that has seen its value surge more than 80% so far this year. The blame for the coffee spike falls in large part on severe drought and unusual frost conditions in Brazil, the world’s largest supplier of coffee beans. This extreme weather has threatened coffee supply and set off alarm bells in financial markets. “It created a panic in the market,” said Carlos Mera, head of agricultural commodities research at Rabobank. ‘Atrocious’ weather Coffee inflation is the latest example of
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Starbucks opens pickup store with Amazon Go technology in Manhattan
Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go store in midtown Manhattan Source: Starbucks Starbucks is opening a pick-up cafe in midtown Manhattan with Amazon that uses the retail giant’s cashierless technology to attract busy consumers who want to buy coffee or snack quickly. The partnership with Amazon is the latest step in Starbucks’ plan to adapt its locations to consumers’ new habits. Nearly a year and a half ago, Starbucks announced it was accelerating plans to revamp its U.S. footprint, inspired by the pandemic’s abrupt shifts to how consumers wanted to buy and drink their coffee. In addition to shuttering as many
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Thoughts on ‘Deforestation-Free’ Coffee as World Leaders Tackle Climate ChangeDaily Coffee News by Roast Magazine
On Tuesday, Nov. 2, the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal among 100 world leaders involved a commitment to end or reverse deforestation by 2030. Supported by an approximately $19 billion commitment announced in Glasgow, Scotland, the herculean task would require nations to significantly reevaluate their economic trade and sustainable land management strategies. Industrial agriculture alone is responsible for approximately 80% of all tropical deforestation, contributing to record-breaking tree cover loss in recent years. The coffee industry has historically played a part in deforestation, but does also have the unique opportunity to incorporate sustainable forest management practices into
