Cafés & Events
How Much Coffee Does a Coffee Shop Use in a Week?
A pound of coffee is about twenty-five double shots. Here is how a cafe turns its drink count into a weekly poundage, and what dialing in, decaf and bag size do to the...
Articles by Mason Singer
Taste
Does Gen Z Buy Sustainable Coffee?
A focus-group study of 23 Slovenian 18- to 27-year-olds, published in Frontiers in Sustainability on 27 July 2026, found sustainability worked as an aspiration while c...
Origins
How Big Is Brazil's 2026 Coffee Harvest?
Conab's third survey of the cycle put Brazil's 2026 coffee crop at a record 67.6 million bags, with arabica up 34.8% and conilon down 6.6%. Here are the figures from C...
Origins
Is Robusta a Different Species of Coffee?
Robusta is not a variety of arabica. It is Coffea canephora, a separate species with half the chromosomes and a different way of making seed, and it is also one of ara...
Church Coffee
How Early Should You Brew Coffee for Church?
The start time for Sunday coffee is set by when the urn empties, not when it fills. Work backward from the last cup, and split the brew across back-to-back services.
Origins
What Is a Coffee Varietal?
A varietal is the kind of coffee plant the seed came from. The harder question is what that name is standing in for, because the same line on a bag can hold a named se...
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