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28 Jul 2026
There is only one place on Earth where coffee still grows wild, on its own, planted by no one: the forests of southern Ethiopia. There, in the shade of tall trees, arabica lived before the word "coffe...
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27 Jul 2026
You picked up a lot at the market. Beans roasted on Saturday, in the wind, at Golden's. You go home, grind fresh, pour tap water over it — and in the cup it's something else. Flatter. Greyer. It...
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26 Jul 2026
For weeks, the heatwave dictated everything. Now the weather has turned. This weekend, over the Marché de l'Abattoir, a south-west wind is blowing with gusts up to 50 km/h — and that mean...
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25 Jul 2026
Grinding fresh roasted coffee isn't set by a manual — it's set by how many hours have passed since first crack. If you grabbed a bag on Saturday at the Marché de l'Abattoir, exit from the...
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23 Jul 2026
Say "Vietnamese coffee" and everyone pictures the same thing: cheap robusta, roasted to a crisp, drowned in condensed milk. Commodity coffee, not a flavour story. And to a lot of people, Vietnamese sp...
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22 Jul 2026
This summer, in New York, the price of coffee fell to its lowest level since November 2024. Analysts talk about a surplus, a record harvest in Brazil — nearly 72 million bags — and a price...
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21 Jul 2026
The bag you carry home on Saturday is nothing like the one off the shelf. How to store freshly roasted coffee — beans that came out from under Golden just hours ago, under the market's weekend s...
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20 Jul 2026
In June, Brussels crowned a World Coffee Roasting Champion. The World of Coffee halls hummed with the newest machines. And yet the most honest way to taste coffee hasn't changed in five centuries: cez...
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19 Jul 2026
This week Brussels entered its second heatwave in a fortnight. 35 degrees on Wednesday, 37 in places. Meteorologists are blunt about it: the summer of 2026 could go down in history as one of the hotte...
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