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August 29, 2008 News Items
Barista brews up unusual art
Chris Deferio showed off his latte art skills at a barista training session.

From The Exponent
   
August 27, 2008 News Items
Making big coffee seem small: Starbucks unveils the Clover
Starbucks is  unveiling today the Clover, the highly praised drip coffee machine acquired from a Ballard startup in March.

From Seattle PI
Are Birds Best Hope for Pest-Ridden Coffee Crops?
Coffee berry borer strikes almost everywhere coffee grows and can destroy up to 70 percent of a crop, posing a significant threat to this $70-billion-a-year industry.

From National Geographic
 
August 25, 2008 News Items
Coffee drinkers show their latte love with artistic creations
The skill of latter art, once an obscure skill practiced by a handful of baristas, is now being practiced by amateur artists in their own homes.

From Daily Herald
   
August 20, 2008 News Items
Spill the Beans: Yearning to return to the barista lifestyle
"Coffee fuels the creative mind, stimulates the intellectual soul and creates a silent human connection that is impossible to obtain in any other field of work" - a beautifully phrased reason for this writer who loves being a barista!

From HTR News
Coffee's trained tasters know their beans and brews
Worldwide there are 395 coffee buyers and cuppers (tasters) who have passed an exam administered by the Long Beach-based (CQI), a nonprofit organization that is the educational arm of the SCAA.

From Los Angeles Times
 
August 18, 2008 News Items
Caffeinated Travel: Mobile Coffee in Copenhagen
In downtown Copenhagen the coffee can come to you - in a very cool mobile coffee shop mounted on a cargo bicycle.

From Jaunted
Peru expanding role as specialty coffee leader
Coffee production in Peru, the world's largest exporter of organic coffee, is booming as growers find new to market their products.

From Reuters
 
August 17, 2008 News Items
Specialty Coffee Roasters Brew in New York
The NYC is getting some great new additions to its coffee scene with Stumptown's owner Duane Sorensen relocating to Brooklyn.

From The New York Times
   
August 11, 2008 News Items
Fair trade coffee - not worth a hill of beans
Fair trade is supposed to mean that the farmers got paid a fair value for their product, but that might not always be the case.

From CS Monitor
Coffee firm converts waste to energy
The Nestle factory implements an environmentally friendly program using spent coffee grounds to create energy.

From Philippine Daily Inquirer
Starbucks fans plead for their stores
Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to close down, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.

From AJC
August 4, 2008 News Items
Starbucks pushes ahead with UK growth plans
Undaunted by the closure last week of 61 of its 84 Australian stores and the start of a 600-store closure programme in the United States, the company said this weekend that it saw Britain as a solid growth market with untapped potential.

From Times Online
Where to Go Next: Best U.S. Coffee Bars
The Ithaca-based Gimme! Coffee has been distinguished as one of the 10 Best U.S. Coffee Bars in the September issue of Food & Wine Magazine. The publication commended the coffee brewery for its exotic blends and rotating selection of locally roasted beans.

From Food&Wine
Kona coffee trade frets over labeling
The US Kona coffee industry wants stronger regulations with labeling as many products do not contain 100% kona beans.

From Reuters
July 24, 2008 News Items
New Zealand team brings barista to Beijing
I wonder now if the US and UK teams will be jealous. Can't go wrong with keeping your athletes caffeinated.

From Guardian
New Zealand team brings barista to Beijing
I wonder now if the US and UK teams will be jealous. Can't go wrong with keeping your athletes caffeinated.

From Guardian
Roasting Raises the Coffee Bar
Michaele Weissman, the author of "God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee", takes at look at Washington cafes taking interest in speciality beans.

From Washington Post
World's Most Expensive Cups Of Coffee
A recent Mercer survey states that an average coffee costs over 10$ in Moscow!

From Forbes
   
July 21, 2008 News Items
Sector Wrap: Specialty Coffee
All major coffee houses seen recently a drop in their store sales, which hopefully will not lead to more closures following the recent Starbucks downsizing.

From Forbes
   
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