Field Notes from Pu’er, China: Coffee Production in the Land of Tea
By Emma Bladyka, Coffee Science Manager, Specialty Coffee Association of America This spring, I had the opportunity to visit China’s Yunnan Province to tour the region’s coffee farms. Yunnan Province is located in…
Baseball Player, Chef, Doctor, or Specialty Coffee Professional?
By Mike Ebert, Alterra Coffee Roasters Personally, I was going to be a rock star, but coffee got in the way. Back in the late 80’s, there were few people who set out…
So You Want to Work in Specialty Coffee?
By Erin Meister, Counter Culture Coffee “When I retire, I want to open a coffee shop.” For years, those words rankled me. As a coffee professional with a decade’s worth of experience culled…
SCAA Professional Development Programs Bring World Class Education to the Coffee Marketplace
By Lily Kubota, Content & Communications Manager, SCAA The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) is a membership organization that, for the past quarter of a century, has provided its members with resources,…
Why Build a Career in Coffee?
By Timothy J. Castle, President, Castle & Co. Are you thinking of making your way in the coffee business? If so, why? Can you answer that question? If you can’t, maybe stop reading…
Careers in Coffee: Logging Time
By Thomas Hodges, Director of Coffee, Lamill Coffee I will begin and conclude this brief article with my own coffee-roasting axiom: “There is no substitute for time behind the iron.” In fact, Malcolm Gladwell’s recent book…
Profile: The Specialty Coffee Scientist
By Emma Bladyka, Coffee Science Manager, SCAA Coffee scientists all over the globe are examining important issues in coffee. There are research groups investigating everything from volatile aroma components, pest and disease biology…
Welcome to Your Community
By Rob Stephen, Senior Trader, InterAmerican Coffee When people get to know me, it usually comes up that I’ve been a long-time volunteer and member of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. I’m…
#TheOnlineCoffeeCommunity
By Brian Jones, Founder/Editor, Dear Coffee, I Love You offee is loved by many both for the intimate atmosphere it can create, and its’ ability to bring people together, in-person, over a cup….
Coffee People Who Need People
Navigating Relationships Within the World of Specialty Coffee Retail By Erin Meister, Customer Support, Counter Culture Coffee Of course we’re in the field of specialty coffee for the coffee, right? We breathe deeply…
