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Home Brewed

The Japanese believe a person can never truly master any skill. You can constantly improve, but there is no limit – no endpoint for your mastery. This applies to everything — martial arts, making sushi, and of course, brewing a great cup of coffee. more

Getting to Normal

Land restitution is an administrative nightmare as 14,000 decommissioned rebels seek social and economic integration. Reclaiming the men just may be more immediately do-able than reclaiming the land. more

Oct 12, 2018 12:00 AM Features

Photo by Carla Shryock

Growing Coffee on the Frinj

Farmers in Southern California successfully cultivate specialty coffee at commercial scale for the first time in the United States mainland and Blue Bottle Coffee sells it for $16 a cup. more

Sep 21, 2018 6:18 AM Dan Shryock Features

Photo courtesy Pod Pack International

Pods Perform

Pod Pack International's Tom Martin says that he is pretty happy with the way things turned out. The company's new plant can produce more than half a billion coffee and tea pods, filter rings, super pods, and capsules a year. more

Sep 24, 2018 9:46 AM Features

From the Managing Editor:

Unconcerned about Retail Consolidation

The foundation on which beverage retail rests is firming up as mergers and acquisitions consolidate the decades-stable $85 billion global coffee market.

Read Dan Bolton's commentary