Supply shocks and climate impacts
How supply shocks and climate change impacts disrupt the global coffee market, influencing availability, pricing, and long-term sustainability.
Smaller beans
Designing profiles for density and size
This topic covers how to create roasting profiles tailored to bean density and size, ensuring even roast and optimal flavor development.
Premium vs commercial grade distinctions
This topic explains the distinctions between premium (specialty-grade) and commercial-grade coffee, focusing on physical standards, sensory outcomes, and market implications.
Uniformity and screen size considerations
This topic explains why uniformity and screen size are important in natural (dry) coffee processing, how they are managed, and their influence on cup quality and market grading.
Climate variability and risk
This topic explores how climate variability and long-term climate change affect coffee production, the risks farmers face, and the strategies being developed to adapt and ensure sustainability.
Altitude and temperature gradients
This topic explains how altitude and temperature gradients shape coffee growth, yield, and flavor, and why these environmental factors are crucial to terroir and quality expression.