Fionn Pooler

Scotland

Coffee Writer at Freelance

Writing about coffee.

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Articles

Sip Late, Sleep Never: What Coffee Really Does to Your Brain at Night

1 week ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

✉️ This story was featured in this week’s Coffee News Club👋 Get the Coffee News Club newsletter in your inbox weekly—sign up. It’s common knowledge that coffee impacts sleep, but exactly how? Researchers at the University of Montreal in Canada investigated how caffeine affects the brain during sleep, discovering that it impairs essential brain functions crucial for restorative sleep.
Drone Software Sniffs Out Destructive Coffee Berry Borers

1 week ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

✉️ This story was featured in this week’s Coffee News Club👋 Get the Coffee News Club newsletter in your inbox weekly—sign up. The coffee berry borer (CBB) is one of the most destructive pests in the coffee industry. Borers cause hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to farms around the world each year.
The C Price Is Changing-Here’s What That Means for Coffee

2 weeks ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

✉️ This story was featured in this week’s Coffee News Club👋 Get the Coffee News Club newsletter in your inbox weekly—sign up. Although many specialty coffee buyers don’t use the arabica coffee futures market to determine pricing, it remains an important benchmark. Known as the “C price,” the arabica market price for coffee changes daily and serves as a snapshot of the industry’s performance.
Coffee News Club: Week of June 9th

2 weeks ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

How many pounds are in a kilogram? The commodity coffee market goes metric. Plus, Colombia pays farmers to switch from growing coca to coffee, and a new study on coffee and aging shows coffee is good for you — and gets the New York Times press bump. ‘The “C Price” as the Coffee Industry Knows It is Being Phased Out’ – via Daily Coffee NewsAlthough many specialty coffee buyers don’t use the arabica coffee futures market to determine pricing, it remains an important benchmark.
Who Wants to be a Global Coffee Creator for Starbucks?

3 weeks ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

✉️ This story was featured in this week’s Coffee News Club👋 Get the Coffee News Club newsletter in your inbox weekly—sign up. You may have noticed the recent surge of “dream coffee job posting” stories. In 2023, Peet’s posted a job seeking a “Chief Cold Brew Officer,” and Chameleon Coffee looked for people to join the cold brew brand’s “Brew Crew” earlier this year. Yes, these are clickbait-y job postings designed to garner media attention, essentially serving as free marketing for brands.
Peet’s Coffee Latest Target in Legal Fight Over Nondairy Milk Upcharges

3 weeks ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

✉️ This story was featured in this week’s Coffee News Club👋 Get the Coffee News Club newsletter in your inbox weekly—sign up. One law firm keeps suing over nondairy milk surcharges. The latest target? Peet’s Coffee. Consumers are pushing back against upcharges for nondairy milk, fueling a wave of lawsuits against coffee companies. One law firm has led the charge, filing numerous cases in recent years. The latest filing against Peet’s Coffee was dismissed by a California judge last week.
Coffee News Club: Week of June 2nd

3 weeks ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

Stop us if you’ve heard any of these headlines before: A coffee group rolls out a new quality tool, a coffee ad disguises itself as a dream coffee job, and a lawsuit challenges charging extra for alternative milks. ‘ASEAN Coffee Federation Launches ACAP Platform for Evaluation, Education’ – via Daily Coffee NewsOver the past few weeks, the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) has been very active.
A Group in Ethiopia is Proving Regenerative Agriculture Works

1 month ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

✉️ This story was featured in this week’s Coffee News Club👋 Get the Coffee News Club newsletter in your inbox weekly—sign up. Last week, we told you about a new study from TechnoServe that found investing in regenerative agriculture can deliver multiple benefits—including increased crop yields, higher farmer incomes, and reduced carbon emissions. In Ethiopia, a similar approach yielded positive results, Daniel Woods reports for Global Coffee Report.
Tomato, Shoyu, and Coconut Water are Just Some Descriptors on New Robusta Flavor Wheel

1 month ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

✉️ This story was featured in this week’s Coffee News Club👋 Get the Coffee News Club newsletter in your inbox weekly—sign up. Once relegated to low-cost blends and jars of instant coffee, Coffea Canephora, usually referred to as robusta, has grown in popularity in recent years. Even the specialty coffee industry—which has often dismissed robusta as inferior in taste to arabica—is beginning to embrace it, thanks to farmers and researchers working to improve robusta’s flavor.
The SCA's Q Program Takeover Leaves the Coffee Industry Divided

1 month ago | freshcup.com | Fionn Pooler

Just days before thousands of coffee pros gathered in Houston for the Specialty Coffee Association’s (SCA) annual Expo, the organization announced it would be taking over management of the Q Grader Program from the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI). The Q Grader certification is a rigorous professional training program that helps coffee pros build the sensory skills necessary to evaluate and assess coffee quality.