Comic

It’s 1st Crack: a Coffee Comic for the Weekend!

Welcome to 1st Crack, a coffee comic strip for weekend mornings, for June 11, 2022 featuring a unique, illustrated look at life behind the bar. BY OMRI ALMAGOR AND ASHLEY WONG Want a hardcopy of 1st Crack comics? They’re […]

Barista Magazine

Master Q+A Continued: Tom Owen

We chatted with Tom Owen, founder of Sweet Maria’s, for the new issue of Barista Magazine; here we feature an extended version of the interview. BY KENNETH R. OLSON BARISTA MAGAZINE Photos courtesy of Tom […]

SCAA

SCAA/SCAE Unification: The Case to Vote Yes

SCAA/SCAE Unification: The Case to Vote Yes Beginning next week,  Specialty Coffee Association of America  (SCAA) Members are voting on unification of their organization with the  Speciality Coffee Association of Europe  (SCAE). SCAE Members have […]

Cafés

La Marzocco Opens Its First Café and Showroom!

La Marzocco Opens Its First Café and Showroom in Seattle Today!   The innovative Italian espresso machine manufacturer  La Marzocco continues its groundbreaking ways with the opening of its first showroom and café in the […]

Podcasts

Coffee Podcasts 2.0: Coffee Geek

Our  blog series on the specialty-coffee industry’s most innovative  podcasts continues. Next up: Coffee Geek by Mark Prince BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ SPECIAL TO BARISTA MAGAZINE In 1997, when you could count the number of speciality […]