Specialty coffee inched closer to the grocery aisle this week, and the bag sitting on your counter is the reason to care. Five stories, one through-line: who roasts your beans, who sells them, and…
I woke up Wednesday to a Sprudge review that made me laugh out loud at the sink. A porcelain kettle, beautifully made, that dribbles down its own chin instead of pouring. Spout geometry, it…
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit the Kona coast this week and ripped through the irrigation and wet-mill water lines that Hawaii’s most expensive coffee depends on, according to Sprudge’s on-the-ground reporting (Sprudge). For home…
Colombia’s 2026 harvest is tracking 7.2% higher than last season, and that one figure is probably the most useful thing on your counter this morning. Better Colombian supply tends to soften single-origin shelf prices…
A drink powder recall across 25 states for salmonella risk is the story to act on first if you keep instant sachets or mushroom-coffee blends near the kettle (Daily Coffee News). Three stories worth…
Five coffee stories broke in the same week, and read together they sketch a clearer June for anyone brewing at home. Ethics labels now sit on espresso hardware. A US courtroom put a $1.8…
The Sprudge “Friends of Sprudge” curated roaster roundup landed this morning, and for anyone brewing at home it reads less like news and more like a shopping list that needs trimming before checkout (Sprudge).…
The bag of single-origin Ethiopian I picked up last week listed an espresso grind setting before the V60 one. That’s new. Same roaster, two years ago, led with pour-over and tucked espresso into smaller…
Sprudge ran a fresh gadget roundup this morning, and the through-line is hard to miss: the 2026 accessory wave is aimed at the puck, not the grinder. For home brewers, that quietly shifts the…
La Marzocco just became the first espresso machine manufacturer to earn B Corp status, and for home buyers shopping a Linea Mini this year, that label is now a real datapoint on repairability and…