A great, basic tutorial on green coffee processing. Full article appears on forbes.com. 

Before you sign a lease for your new coffeehouse, you’ll need a solid plan for exactly how you’ll use the space—not to mention assuring your location is visible and the lease is amenable.

As a follow up to our coffee cupping guide, here's a handy guide for taking cupping notes — which, for the novice cupper, can sometimes seem like five ways to say the same thing.

It’s a weird word, cupping. Yet it's just ground coffee and hot water, with no fancy brewing process to affect its flavor. It’s what you’ve got to do to evaluate the characteristics of coffees, to understand their nuances — their basic tastes and defects — and how they compare to other coffees. And it’s something you can share with your customers with weekly or monthly cupping events — perhaps during a slower weekend hour.

Tea is all about soothing flavor — flavor that whispers instead of shouting. Tea infusions are a subtle touch that add a gourmet feel to other beverages, and can enable anyone to develop a signature drink that is truly unique.

The café industry is booming and the demand to consistently provide the best product and service is taking its toll on baristas.

Barista injuries are on the rise due to repetitive stress from slinging coffee. Coffee tamping using manual pressure can increase the risk of barista elbow, repetitive strain injuries (RSI), and barista wrist.

Treatments for these injuries include analgesics, physical therapy, and ultrasound therapy. Severe cases may require more aggressive interventions including surgery.

Two years ago, a Canberra barista who suffered permanent disability after years of steaming jugs of milk won a payout of almost $600,000.

Thanks to the proliferation of cold brew coffee, cocktails are maturing.

Thanks to the near ubiquity of cold brew coffee, coffee cocktails are growing—and growing up. More, and better, third wave bean-toned beverages are proliferating in bars from coast to coast, and these highbrow tipples are far cry from the original Espresso Martini. Pardon the pun, but this trend has been percolating for years, some might even say for decades or centuries.