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Lem Butler reading the April + May 2005 issue of Barista Magazine while drinking a coffee with dozens of other Barista Magazines on a table in front of him.

Here’s to Twenty Years of Barista Magazine

May 16, 2025 baristamagazine Comments Off

20 years is a long time, but it went by so fast. BY LEM BUTLER Photos by Kenneth R. Olson unless notedFeatured photo courtesy of Lem Butler Twenty years ago, I was a young barista […]