Coffee Gear and Equipment

The Cup of Excellence (COE) organization, Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE), has a super cool new campaign we’re dying to tell you about. the COE’s Marketing and Membership Manager, Anna Abatzoglou, is one creative lady […]

If there’s anything that Japanese barista phenom Hiroshi Sawada  might be better at than latte art, it’s style and branding. The owner of Streamer Coffee in Tokyo, which are among the hippest specialty coffee cafes […]

As many of your are off work this week, we thought we’d take the opportunity to give you some reading material ”save it for later if you want. No matter how experienced you are, or […]

This sure is pretty. This baby is called The Empire. It’s an all-glass cold drip system that its developers at Pure Coffee USA say is unlike anything else on the market. The press release says […]

I got an email from a barista last night who was having trouble some issues with backflushing: I have a 5 group head La Marzocco and I daily backflush with water and detergent. I now […]

We’re just days away from the release of the December+January issue of Barista Magazine, which includes our annual gift guide called Best Bar Tools, in which working baristas and coffee professionals recommend the tools they […]

Former World Barista Champion Tim Wendelboe is pretty persnickety about what he will or won’t endorse. Since he’s made quite a famous name for himself since winning the WBC in 2004, and opening his self-titled […]