6 Tips for Blow-You-Away Specialty Coffee Cocktails
Coffee cocktails: What’s not to love? Well, unless your coffee cocktail is just coffee plus syrup, of course. In that case, my condolences to you. ...read more
Design 101: 6 Ways to Make Customers Return to Your Cafe
Design is everywhere. It’s in the packaging of the coffee sitting on your counter. It’s in the art hanging on the wall in your favorite ...read more
3 Steps to Crafting a Successful Specialty Coffee Brand
Are you dreaming of a café or coffee roastery of your own, but find the idea of running a business daunting? Or are you already ...read more
Is Espresso & Tonic a Match Made in Heaven or Hell?
A coppery-coloured espresso suspended over a transparent, bubbly bed of tonic water—it’s easy to see the appeal. Stumptown Coffee, one of the pioneers of the ...read more
How to Introduce Customers to Third Wave Coffee
With third wave coffee shops everywhere, specialty coffee websites, specialty coffee associations, World Championships, and public cuppings, it’s easy to become insulated in third wave ...read more
How to Grow a Socially Responsible Specialty Coffee & Cycling Culture
Like any business venture, opening a café can be risky. In Quito, where specialty coffee culture is nascent, the risk is even higher. While various ...read more
Quick cold brew: how to make one in just 60 seconds
Extraction is a word that sums up every coffee-making process in existence You add solid grounds into water, and voilà, you can enjoy an infused ...read more
Should We Allow Customers to Dictate How Coffee Is Served?
“Who ordered the extra hot skinny Ethiopian Albino? Extra hot skinny Ethiopian Albino? Oh, here you go.” “Thanks, mate.” “You’re welcome.” You’ve just read a ...read more
Are You a Specialty Coffee Lover or a Lover of Cafes?
Understanding Consumer Behaviour For those who often host cupping sessions, I am sure you have come across the experience that I am about to tell ...read more
5 Golden Rules for Opening Your Own Coffee Shop?
So you’ve decided to open your own coffee shop? And I assume not just anywhere in the world, but in a country that is producing ...read more
Bribery & Corruption – Running a Coffee Shop in an Underdeveloped Nation
I couldn’t really believe what I was hearing. If I understood correctly, I was being asked for a kickback so that this particular vendor would ...read more
Catering to Coffee Customers in Rural Guatemala
At the bottom of every menu in La Fábrica, you will find this sentence: “No aplicamos azúcar a ninguna bebida si no lo pide”, basically saying we don’t put sugar ...read more
Why is it Difficult For Cafés at Origin to Purchase Coffee
My first nine weeks in Guatemala were spent studying Spanish in Antigua – arguably the Latin American hotspot for coffee. Armed with my notebook to ...read more
Tips for Organizing an AeroPress Championship
Insights from Successful Competition Organisers & Winners… Ximena Rubio – Organiser, Mexico (2015) ` “Organizing a championship is organizing a big bunch of people coming ...read more