Finding a cacao farm in Taiwan is almost ‘unheard’ of until Fu Wan Chocolate came into the scene. Starting as a chef in Fu Wan Cafe Villa, Founder Warren Hsu is a huge supporter of…

How do you know when to change the temperature on your PID, and a short dive into the process with different group heads. To enter our competition to win a free 1kg bag of the…

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Denmark-headquartered upcycled coffee startup Kaffe Bueno has been awarded a total of €2.5m grant from the European Commission, including a recent €1.8m cash injection as a blended investment. Typically, these grants are not ‘free’ money,…

When the Amsterdam Coffee Festival held its inaugural event, I was lucky enough to attend. We just received a letter from the organisers to say that, despite some hope that they could stick with the…

At the height of the COVID pandemic, opening a coffee shop might not sound like a wise business decision. Yet, Blank Street coffee did just that, and now with 14 micro-outlets, raised a whopping $25m…

Brazilian exports of green coffee fell by 29% in September, according to Reuters, compared with the same month a year earlier, to 2.74 million 60-kg bags, exporters association Cecafe reported last week. On the year…

Uganda’s Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) issued a letter last week to stakeholders providing their explanation for why Managing Director, Dr Emmanuel Iyamulemye Niyibigira had left his post. It came to a natural endLetter from UCDA…