Every page in Roasteries & coffee shops (80), listed A–Z with a one-line identifier.
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Roasteries (57)
Angelino’s Coffee — The California specialty roaster that holds the all-time Cup of Excellence auction record.
Axil Coffee Roasters — The Hawthorn roastery and Melbourne café group founded by Dave Makin and Zoe Delaney that produced two World Barista Champions in four years — Anthony Douglas in 2022 and Jack Simpson in 2025 — and built a training school and a national wholesale business around them.
Big Sur Coffee — The Shanghai roastery, founded in 2016, that sells almost nothing but single-origin coffee — a Panama Geisha–heavy list sold in 30 and 60 gram bags, roasted light on Loring machines in Xuhui District.
Blue Bottle Coffee — The Oakland roaster that turned a farmers-market cart into the polished face of third-wave coffee, sold most of itself to Nestlé in 2017 — and was sold on again in 2026, at a loss, to the Chinese fund that controls Luckin.
Boo Coffee Roasters — The two-year-old Anderlecht roastery, run by Benjamin Brassart and Benoit out of a converted Brussels factory, whose head roaster won the 2026 World Coffee Roasting Championship in his own city.
Brandywine Coffee Roasters — The Wilmington, Delaware roaster that screen-prints every coffee bag by hand with original illustrations, roasts light on a 15-kilo Loring, and won the 2024–25 Sprudge Design Award for Outstanding In-House Design Team.
Cafe Bach — The Tokyo coffee house, open since 1968, that built its reputation on removing bad beans by hand rather than on chasing rare lots — and whose founder Mamoru Taguchi trained a nationwide network of independent shops.
Café de l’Ambre — The single-room Ginza coffee shop, open since 1948, that serves nothing but coffee — and that built its reputation on deliberately ageing green beans for years or decades before roasting them, the exact opposite of what the rest of specialty coffee does.
Cafe Kreyol — The Virginia importer-roaster built around rebuilding Haiti’s collapsed coffee industry — Roast magazine’s 2023 Macro Roaster of the Year, and one of the few US companies whose whole business case is a single origin’s recovery.
Café Paulista — The Ginza coffee house and roaster set up in 1910 to give away free Brazilian government coffee in Japan — the oldest Japanese coffee shop still trading, and the reason a generation of Japanese drinkers learned coffee as a Brazilian drink.
Coffee Collective — The Copenhagen roastery started by three Danish competition baristas — a light-roasting, name-the-farm company whose founders hold a World Barista and a World Cup Tasters title, and whose coffee turns up in other people’s competition routines.
Counter Culture Coffee — The Durham, North Carolina roaster that turned “we buy direct” from a slogan into a document — the one American third-wave founder that hired an outside auditor to check its own sourcing claims and then published the results.
Doubleshot — The Prague roastery that grew out of a year spent working on a Panamanian coffee farm — four cafés, a coffee school and a bakery, over 90% of its green bought straight from the farmer, and the only Czech name on a Nordic Roaster winners sheet.
DoubleShot Coffee Company — The one-man Tulsa roastery that refused to give up its name when Starbucks came for it in 2006 — a standoff filmed for a documentary — and whose founder now plants coffee on his own farm in Nicaragua.
Doutor Coffee — The Tokyo roaster that invented Japan’s cheap, fast, stand-up coffee counter — founded in 1962, opened its first Harajuku shop in 1980, and now runs over a thousand cafés while leaving almost no trace in the specialty record.
Dragonfly Coffee Roasters — The small Boulder, Colorado roastery that was Roast magazine’s 2019 Micro Roaster of the Year and the quietest of the four names on the first coffee ever to sell above $1,000 a pound.
Equator Coffees — The Marin County roaster that started with two espresso carts in the early 1990s, began roasting in a garage in 1995, and ended up part-owning Finca Sophia — one of the highest Geisha farms in Panama.
Espresso Vivace — The small Seattle coffee company founded in 1988 by David Schomer and Geneva Sullivan that roasts in a Northern Italian style, calls itself “the caramel coffee,” and is where latte art was popularised in the United States.
Excelsa Coffee Company — The San Diego importer-roaster built entirely around Excelsa, the rare low-caffeine fourth coffee species — with its own farm in Nicaragua and buying relationships in the Philippines, South Sudan and Vietnam.
Gardelli Specialty Coffees — The Italian micro-roastery in Forlì built around Rubens Gardelli, the 2017 World Coffee Roasting Champion — a pastel-pink counterargument to Italy’s dark-roast espresso tradition.
Garrido Specialty Coffee Roasters — The Garrido family’s coffee business in Boquete, Panama — grower, roaster and hired dry mill, and the name behind Mokkita, the tiny-bean variety that won Best of Panama’s non-Geisha category.
Has Bean — The Staffordshire roaster that turned a market stall into Britain’s best-known mail-order specialty coffee business, sent Dale Harris to the 2017 world barista title, and no longer exists under its own name — it merged with Ozone Coffee in 2018 and the two rebranded as Ozone at the start of 2024.
Honey Coffee Roasters — The family roastery in Fukuoka that says it brought specialty coffee to Hakata in 2001 — and where a teenage Hidenori Izaki, later the first Asian World Barista Champion, started making coffee at sixteen.
Illy — The family-controlled Trieste roaster, founded in 1933 by Francesco Illy, that sells one single blend of nine Arabica varieties into more than 140 countries — inventor of the illetta espresso machine and of pressurised coffee packaging, and the first Italian coffee company certified as a B Corporation.
Intelligentsia Coffee — The Chicago roaster that opened in 1995, wrote down what “direct trade” was supposed to mean before anyone else did, sold a majority of itself to Peet’s in 2015 — and in 2022 became the first big American third-wave company whose workers unionised.
Jacobs Douwe Egberts — The Dutch-German coffee giant built by merging a 1753 grocery in Joure with an 1895 shop in Bremen — later folded into JDE Peet’s, “the world’s leading pure-play coffee company”, and bought outright by Keurig Dr Pepper on 1 April 2026. Enormous in coffee, essentially absent from the specialty record.
Julith Coffee — Dubai roastery that bought the 2025 Best of Panama record lot — the most expensive coffee ever sold at auction.
Kaffa — The Oslo roastery and coffee-equipment retailer registered in 2005 and based on Enebakkveien at Ryen, a few doors from Solberg & Hansen, which finished third at the 2011 Nordic Roaster with a Panamanian Geisha in the filter round.
Klatch Coffee — The Southern California family roaster that turned record Panamanian auction lots into the $75 cup of coffee — the retail end of the world-record price chain.
La Cabra — The Aarhus roaster-and-bakery that took Nordic light roasting global — one roast profile per coffee, no separate espresso version, cafés from Copenhagen to Muscat, and the winning bid on Peru’s 2025 Cup of Excellence.
MAME — The Zürich roastery and café group founded in 2016 by Emi Fukahori and Mathieu Theis — two competition baristas who built a business out of the championship stage, and the closest thing Switzerland has to a competition-coffee institution.
Maruyama Coffee — The Karuizawa roastery that turned a failed mountain café into Japan’s most persistent Cup of Excellence buyer — five straight national barista titles from 2009, and the employer behind the first Asian world barista champion.
Nestlé — The Swiss food conglomerate that invented instant coffee in 1938, invented the coffee capsule in the 1970s, and now owns or licenses Nescafé, Nespresso, Dolce Gusto, Starbucks packaged coffee and — until 2026 — Blue Bottle. The largest coffee buyer in the world, and almost invisible in the specialty record.
Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. — The independent small-batch roaster from Olympia, Washington that won Roast magazine’s 2013 Micro Roaster of the Year and grew into a chain of cafés across the Puget Sound.
Onyx Coffee Lab — The Northwest Arkansas roaster and café group that turned a small-town roastery into the most decorated competition team in American coffee — two US Barista Champions, two world runners-up, and a published record of what it pays for green coffee.
Orsir Coffee — The Taiwanese roaster and green-coffee buyer that flies its own cuppers to origin and bids at Cup of Excellence auctions — top buyer of the 2023 Indonesia winner, co-buyer of half the record-setting 2024 Ethiopia lot, and a fixture on Costa Rica’s auction sheets from 2019 to 2022.
Peet’s Coffee — The Berkeley bean shop that opened in 1966, taught Americans that coffee could be fresh, dark and worth queuing for, trained the three men who went on to found Starbucks — and is now a global brand inside Keurig Dr Pepper, with Stumptown and Intelligentsia underneath it.
PERC Coffee Roasters — The Savannah, Georgia roaster that built a chain of Atlanta cafés on the back of a wholesale business, and won a Sprudge Design Award for its merchandise — a company known for how it looks rather than for what it has paid at auction.
Philocoffea — The Chiba roastery and café group founded in November 2017 by 2016 World Brewers Cup champion Tetsu Kasuya — a company built on a brewing method rather than an auction bid, now 35 people with a Tokyo flagship.
Proud Mary Coffee — The Melbourne roaster-and-café group founded by Nolan and Shari Hirte in 2009 that exported Australian café culture to Portland and Austin — and whose free producer-profile library, Proud Mary Academy, is one of the most-cited sources in this wiki.
Savage Coffees — The Panama-grown, Florida-roasted coffee brand founded by Jamison Savage in 2016 — a producer who buys cherries from his neighbours, ferments them himself, and now roasts and sells the finished coffee in the United States.
Saza Coffee — The family roastery in small-town Ibaraki, Japan that keeps buying the world’s most expensive coffee — lead buyer on both the first 1,000-a-pound lot in 2019 and the 10,013-a-kilo record in 2024 — and that also grows its own Geisha on a Colombian farm.
Sensory Lab — The Melbourne coffee brand founded in 2009 as the department-store arm of the St. Ali group — sold its retail cafés to a catering company in 2021 and now sells beans and subscriptions roasted in Port Melbourne.
Seven Seeds — The Melbourne roastery and café Mark Dundon and Bridget Amor opened in 2007 after he left St. Ali — the business most associated with pushing Melbourne from dark espresso blends toward light roasts and filter coffee, named after the Baba Budan legend.
Sey Coffee — The Brooklyn micro-roastery that made very light, single-origin roasting the house style of a generation of American roasters — a roastery and coffee bar in one Bushwick room at 18 Grattan St.
Simple Kaffa — The Taipei roastery and café group founded by Berg Wu, the only Taiwanese barista ever to win the World Barista Championship — and one of the East Asian buyers who turn up when a record Panama Geisha lot gets split.
Solberg & Hansen — The Oslo coffee and tea roastery that traces itself to 1879, calls itself Norway’s oldest and largest specialty roaster, won the Nordic Roaster title in 2011 by a single vote, and turns up in Cup of Excellence auction records as a buyer as far back as 2001.
Square Mile Coffee Roasters — The London roastery founded in 2008 by two people who had both won world coffee titles in Tokyo the year before — James Hoffmann and Anette Moldvaer. It has no café, roasts in a Walthamstow industrial unit, and sells mostly to other businesses.
St. Ali — The South Melbourne warehouse café that Mark Dundon opened in 2005 and sold to Salvatore Malatesta in 2008 — the business most often named as the starting point of Melbourne’s third-wave coffee scene, now a roastery, café group and Southeast Asian export.
Starbucks — The Seattle bean shop that became the largest coffee company on earth — roughly 41,000 stores in 87 countries — and which owns a private sourcing rulebook applied to about three percent of the world’s coffee, while publishing almost nothing about individual lots.
Starbucks Reserve — Starbucks’ premium sub-brand — small-batch coffees sold through cathedral-sized roasteries and dedicated bars, and the largest premium coffee programme on earth that publishes no farm names, no scores and no auction results.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters — The Portland roaster that opened in a former hair salon in 1999, taught American specialty coffee to fly to the farm and pay up, put cold brew in a nitro can — and then sold itself twice, first to private equity and then to Peet’s.
Subko Coffee — The Mumbai roastery, bakery and chocolate maker that opened in a Bandra bungalow three days before India’s COVID lockdown, buys only Indian-grown Arabica, and has become the most design-visible name in Indian specialty coffee.
The Barn — The Berlin roaster that brought Nordic light roasting to Germany — a 2010 café that started roasting in 2012, sells single origins only, and is one of Europe’s most-cited light-roast reference points.
UCC Ueshima Coffee — The Kobe company that put coffee in a can in 1969 and built Japan’s everyday coffee habit around it — a grower, roaster and drinks manufacturer that owns estates in Hawaii and Jamaica, and the closest thing Japanese coffee has to a founding institution.
Westrock Coffee — The Arkansas company that began in Rwanda in 2009 and now trades on the Nasdaq as WEST — a vertically integrated coffee, tea and extracts manufacturer that owns the green trader Falcon Coffees and makes other companies’ drinks rather than selling microlots under its own name.
Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea — The Connecticut roaster and café group, roasting in Branford since the 1980s, that keeps turning up on the buyer line of competition lots — including the first coffee ever to sell for more than $1,000 a pound.
Coffee shops (46)
7Fresh Coffee — JD.com’s own-brand café chain, launched in Beijing in November 2025 on a fresh-milk-only promise and a plan to open three to five shops a week.
Axil Coffee Roasters — The Hawthorn roastery and Melbourne café group founded by Dave Makin and Zoe Delaney that produced two World Barista Champions in four years — Anthony Douglas in 2022 and Jack Simpson in 2025 — and built a training school and a national wholesale business around them.
Blue Bottle Coffee — The Oakland roaster that turned a farmers-market cart into the polished face of third-wave coffee, sold most of itself to Nestlé in 2017 — and was sold on again in 2026, at a loss, to the Chinese fund that controls Luckin.
Cafe Bach — The Tokyo coffee house, open since 1968, that built its reputation on removing bad beans by hand rather than on chasing rare lots — and whose founder Mamoru Taguchi trained a nationwide network of independent shops.
Café de l’Ambre — The single-room Ginza coffee shop, open since 1948, that serves nothing but coffee — and that built its reputation on deliberately ageing green beans for years or decades before roasting them, the exact opposite of what the rest of specialty coffee does.
Café Paulista — The Ginza coffee house and roaster set up in 1910 to give away free Brazilian government coffee in Japan — the oldest Japanese coffee shop still trading, and the reason a generation of Japanese drinkers learned coffee as a Brazilian drink.
Coffee Collective — The Copenhagen roastery started by three Danish competition baristas — a light-roasting, name-the-farm company whose founders hold a World Barista and a World Cup Tasters title, and whose coffee turns up in other people’s competition routines.
Cokuun — A four-seat, reservation-only coffee tasting room in Omotesando, Tokyo, run by 2014 world barista champion Hide Izaki, where a 90-minute coffee course costs ¥16,500 and the address is only given out after you book.
Cotti Coffee — The chain that Luckin’s disgraced founders built after they were forced out — over 18,000 stores in 28 countries in under four years, grown on 9.9-yuan drinks and a franchise deal that takes a cut of profit instead of a fee, with no published word about where any of the coffee comes from.
Dayglow — The Los Angeles café and online shop that sells other roasters’ coffee rather than only its own — a “maximalist multi-roaster” opened in Silver Lake in 2017, and winner of the 2024–25 Sprudge Design Award for Outstanding E-Commerce / Web Site.
Doubleshot — The Prague roastery that grew out of a year spent working on a Panamanian coffee farm — four cafés, a coffee school and a bakery, over 90% of its green bought straight from the farmer, and the only Czech name on a Nordic Roaster winners sheet.
DoubleShot Coffee Company — The one-man Tulsa roastery that refused to give up its name when Starbucks came for it in 2006 — a standoff filmed for a documentary — and whose founder now plants coffee on his own farm in Nicaragua.
Doutor Coffee — The Tokyo roaster that invented Japan’s cheap, fast, stand-up coffee counter — founded in 1962, opened its first Harajuku shop in 1980, and now runs over a thousand cafés while leaving almost no trace in the specialty record.
Equator Coffees — The Marin County roaster that started with two espresso carts in the early 1990s, began roasting in a garage in 1995, and ended up part-owning Finca Sophia — one of the highest Geisha farms in Panama.
Espresso Vivace — The small Seattle coffee company founded in 1988 by David Schomer and Geneva Sullivan that roasts in a Northern Italian style, calls itself “the caramel coffee,” and is where latte art was popularised in the United States.
Honey Coffee Roasters — The family roastery in Fukuoka that says it brought specialty coffee to Hakata in 2001 — and where a teenage Hidenori Izaki, later the first Asian World Barista Champion, started making coffee at sixteen.
Intelligentsia Coffee — The Chicago roaster that opened in 1995, wrote down what “direct trade” was supposed to mean before anyone else did, sold a majority of itself to Peet’s in 2015 — and in 2022 became the first big American third-wave company whose workers unionised.
Kissaten — Japan’s traditional coffee house — a quiet, dark-roasted, hand-brewed room run by a single master, and the place where obsessive single-cup brewing was ordinary decades before the West called it specialty.
Klatch Coffee — The Southern California family roaster that turned record Panamanian auction lots into the $75 cup of coffee — the retail end of the world-record price chain.
La Cabra — The Aarhus roaster-and-bakery that took Nordic light roasting global — one roast profile per coffee, no separate espresso version, cafés from Copenhagen to Muscat, and the winning bid on Peru’s 2025 Cup of Excellence.
Luckin Coffee — The app-first Chinese chain that grew from nothing in 2017 to 33,596 stores, survived a $180 million accounting fraud, and now sells more coffee than anyone else on earth — opening an “Origin Flagship” in 2026 while still publishing almost nothing about where its beans come from.
MAME — The Zürich roastery and café group founded in 2016 by Emi Fukahori and Mathieu Theis — two competition baristas who built a business out of the championship stage, and the closest thing Switzerland has to a competition-coffee institution.
Maruyama Coffee — The Karuizawa roastery that turned a failed mountain café into Japan’s most persistent Cup of Excellence buyer — five straight national barista titles from 2009, and the employer behind the first Asian world barista champion.
McCafé — The coffee-bar brand McDonald’s built inside its own restaurants — invented in Melbourne in 1993, grown into one of the largest café chains on earth, and almost completely absent from the specialty record this wiki normally keeps.
Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. — The independent small-batch roaster from Olympia, Washington that won Roast magazine’s 2013 Micro Roaster of the Year and grew into a chain of cafés across the Puget Sound.
Onyx Coffee Lab — The Northwest Arkansas roaster and café group that turned a small-town roastery into the most decorated competition team in American coffee — two US Barista Champions, two world runners-up, and a published record of what it pays for green coffee.
Peet’s Coffee — The Berkeley bean shop that opened in 1966, taught Americans that coffee could be fresh, dark and worth queuing for, trained the three men who went on to found Starbucks — and is now a global brand inside Keurig Dr Pepper, with Stumptown and Intelligentsia underneath it.
PERC Coffee Roasters — The Savannah, Georgia roaster that built a chain of Atlanta cafés on the back of a wholesale business, and won a Sprudge Design Award for its merchandise — a company known for how it looks rather than for what it has paid at auction.
Philocoffea — The Chiba roastery and café group founded in November 2017 by 2016 World Brewers Cup champion Tetsu Kasuya — a company built on a brewing method rather than an auction bid, now 35 people with a Tokyo flagship.
Proud Mary Coffee — The Melbourne roaster-and-café group founded by Nolan and Shari Hirte in 2009 that exported Australian café culture to Portland and Austin — and whose free producer-profile library, Proud Mary Academy, is one of the most-cited sources in this wiki.
Prufrock Coffee — The London café on Leather Lane that has served coffee since 2011 and became part of Square Mile Coffee Roasters in 2017. Long treated as one of the city’s landmark specialty coffee shops, and it also runs coffee training.
Saza Coffee — The family roastery in small-town Ibaraki, Japan that keeps buying the world’s most expensive coffee — lead buyer on both the first 1,000-a-pound lot in 2019 and the 10,013-a-kilo record in 2024 — and that also grows its own Geisha on a Colombian farm.
Seven Seeds — The Melbourne roastery and café Mark Dundon and Bridget Amor opened in 2007 after he left St. Ali — the business most associated with pushing Melbourne from dark espresso blends toward light roasts and filter coffee, named after the Baba Budan legend.
Sey Coffee — The Brooklyn micro-roastery that made very light, single-origin roasting the house style of a generation of American roasters — a roastery and coffee bar in one Bushwick room at 18 Grattan St.
Simple Kaffa — The Taipei roastery and café group founded by Berg Wu, the only Taiwanese barista ever to win the World Barista Championship — and one of the East Asian buyers who turn up when a record Panama Geisha lot gets split.
St. Ali — The South Melbourne warehouse café that Mark Dundon opened in 2005 and sold to Salvatore Malatesta in 2008 — the business most often named as the starting point of Melbourne’s third-wave coffee scene, now a roastery, café group and Southeast Asian export.
Starbucks — The Seattle bean shop that became the largest coffee company on earth — roughly 41,000 stores in 87 countries — and which owns a private sourcing rulebook applied to about three percent of the world’s coffee, while publishing almost nothing about individual lots.
Starbucks China — The chain that spent nine unprofitable years teaching a tea-drinking country to buy coffee, built the first serious international market for Yunnan arabica — and is now handing majority control of its 8,000 Chinese stores to a private equity firm.
Starbucks Reserve — Starbucks’ premium sub-brand — small-batch coffees sold through cathedral-sized roasteries and dedicated bars, and the largest premium coffee programme on earth that publishes no farm names, no scores and no auction results.
Stockfleth’s — The Oslo coffee-bar chain that dates itself to 1895 and became the training ground of Norway’s competition baristas — Tim Wendelboe’s first employer, the name attached to a famous grounds-levelling technique, and a company half-owned today by Solberg & Hansen.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters — The Portland roaster that opened in a former hair salon in 1999, taught American specialty coffee to fly to the farm and pay up, put cold brew in a nitro can — and then sold itself twice, first to private equity and then to Peet’s.
Subko Coffee — The Mumbai roastery, bakery and chocolate maker that opened in a Bandra bungalow three days before India’s COVID lockdown, buys only Indian-grown Arabica, and has become the most design-visible name in Indian specialty coffee.
The Barn — The Berlin roaster that brought Nordic light roasting to Germany — a 2010 café that started roasting in 2012, sells single origins only, and is one of Europe’s most-cited light-roast reference points.
UCC Ueshima Coffee — The Kobe company that put coffee in a can in 1969 and built Japan’s everyday coffee habit around it — a grower, roaster and drinks manufacturer that owns estates in Hawaii and Jamaica, and the closest thing Japanese coffee has to a founding institution.
Uni-President Enterprises Corporation — The Tainan food conglomerate that owns Taiwan’s coffee counter — it runs 7-Eleven, Starbucks and Mister Donut on the island through its retail arm, and sold Starbucks back its own East China business for US$1.3 billion in 2017. It grows no coffee and has never bid at an auction.
Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea — The Connecticut roaster and café group, roasting in Branford since the 1980s, that keeps turning up on the buyer line of competition lots — including the first coffee ever to sell for more than $1,000 a pound.
Everything else (12)
Alfred Peet — The Dutch coffee man who opened a bean shop in Berkeley on 1 April 1966, roasted dark and fresh when America drank stale coffee out of a tin, and taught the three men who went on to found Starbucks.
Australian café culture — How post-war Italian migration turned Australia into an espresso country with its own drink names, why Melbourne became the world’s most-cited coffee city, and the rare case of a market where the independents beat the global chains outright.
Black Gold Coffee — The buyer that paid US$1,604 a kilo for the Sidama Keramo Super Natural lot in July 2025 — Ethiopia’s record price for about eight weeks.
C.A.F.E. Practices — Starbucks’ own coffee-buying rulebook — more than 200 checks on how a farm is run, audited by outside firms but owned, scored and ultimately decided by one company.
Chamberlain Coffee — The coffee brand the YouTuber Emma Chamberlain started in December 2019 — the largest creator-owned coffee company, sold in thousands of American supermarkets, and one that publishes almost nothing about where its green coffee comes from.
Coffee trade shows — The travelling industry fairs where coffee actually gets bought, sold and judged — above all World of Coffee, the Specialty Coffee Association’s show brand, which now runs five editions a year across four continents.
Finca Saza — The 25-hectare estate in Timbío, Cauca that a Japanese roastery bought and has farmed since the 1990s — Typica, Bourbon and Geisha at 1,950 m, grown by the same company that keeps setting world records buying other people’s coffee in Panama.
Grand Cru Coffee — A small Hong Kong specialty coffee retailer that turns up in two places that matter — as one of the eight buyers who split the $10,013-a-kilo world-record Panama lot in 2024, and as a retailer of Hacienda La Esmeralda’s El Velo Geisha in 80-gram boxes.
Green coffee trading — The merchant layer of coffee — the handful of global firms that buy, finance, hedge, ship and resell raw coffee by the container, what customs and world statistics actually see, and why published estimates of the market’s size disagree so badly.
James Freeman — The freelance clarinettist who started roasting coffee in an Oakland shed and turned it into Blue Bottle — the polished public face of third-wave coffee — then left after selling the majority of it to Nestlé.
Lamastus Family Estates — The four-generation Panamanian family business behind Elida, Luito and El Burro estates in Boquete — grower, processor, exporter, roaster and repeat holder of the world record coffee price.
Mahlkönig EK43 — The tall German shop grinder that specialty coffee adopted for espresso — 98 mm cast steel burrs, 1300 watts, and the machine an entire argument about grind uniformity was built around.