The 2020 Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide has been released, collating information on green coffee prices and buying from the 81 data donors involved in the project.
It lists US$2.60 per pound as the median middle free-on-board price paid for specialty coffee in coffee year 2019/2020.
Accademia del Caffè Espresso, La Marzocco’s centre dedicated to Italian espresso culture, has launched a research project to study the coffee plant in all its components. Read more
The Australian Specialty Coffee Association (ASCA) has confirmed it still intends to host the 2020 Condesa Co Lab Australian Coffee Championships, which were postponed from last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
Taste and Nutrition company Kerry has released its annual Asia Pacific Taste Charts for 2021, uncovering flavours and ingredients that it says are set to inspire innovation and taste excellence across the region’s food and beverage landscape. Read more
National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have created new probiotic coffee and tea drinks that are packed with gut-friendly live probiotics. Read more
Leading European coffee cuppers met on 10 December, in the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) sensorial analysis laboratory in Montpellier and remotely, for a world-first tasting of three coffee species from the Coffea biological resource centre. Read more
Australia is one of 22 countries in the World Coffee Research (WCR) International Multilocation Variety Trial (IMLVT), but as the only one not in the Tropic of Capricorn belt, stands as an outlier. Read more
The International Coffee Organization (ICO) composite indicator increased in December by 4.6 per cent to 114.74 US cents per pound, as prices for Arabica group indicators increased. Read more
Nespresso and Planet Ark have teamed up to encourage Australians to keep recycling a priority in their lives by making a New Year’s #RecyclingResolution. Aussies are invited to share on social media their pledge to recycle using the hashtag #RecyclingResolution. Read more
Switching jobs during a global pandemic might not be for everyone, but when the opportunity to head up Australian coffee brand Merlo Coffee came up, it was one the David Holt jumped at. Read more