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 within a few months, which matters if your daily V60 leans on a washed Bogotá or Huila lot, as mine does.
The three stories actually touching your cup
The Colombia number comes from Daily Coffee News, citing improved weather lifting the 2026 crop and easing pressure on the washed lots that anchor most pour-over rotations (source). I’ve been buying a washed Narino from a small Seoul roaster for the last six weeks at a noticeably steady price, which lines up with the supply picture.
Specialty has now pulled ahead of traditional coffee in U.S. past-day consumption, according to NCA figures covered by Daily Coffee News (source). Practically: expect more single-origin bags on the grocery shelf, not fewer.
And Sprudge reports that Deannie Mims of Mims Coffee Roasters brought a Good Food Award back to Portland, becoming one of the few Black women roasters in Oregon to do so (source). Worth a bag.
Two stories worth checking again tomorrow
Taste-To-Ace, a card deck pitched as a low-friction palate trainer for home cuppers, launched yesterday on Kickstarter. Early backer numbers will tell us something useful about whether structured tasting tools actually resonate with hobbyists, or whether they stall the way most “learn flavor” products have (source).
Bluewater’s Coffee Rock water-treatment unit just shipped to wholesale cafés. The thing to wait for is the first home-scale spec sheet, because that’s the version that would actually matter to most readers (source).
What this actually means for your next bag
A 7.2% Colombian uplift will not move your 250 g bag this week. If you’re hoping for price relief, late summer is the realistic window, not tomorrow.
A $20 tasting deck will probably teach you more than another grinder. If you can’t name what you’re tasting, no burr upgrade fixes the gap.
Award-winning micro-roasters deserve a slot in your rotation now, not eventually. Buy one bag from Mims this month and run it head-to-head with your usual.
One small experiment for this week
Order a washed Colombia, swap one bag for a Good Food winner, and run a blind two-cup tasting using whatever cards or notes you already have. 18 g in, 1:16 ratio, same grind, same V60. You don’t need new gear to learn something useful.