Nick Brown

1 week ago | dailycoffeenews.com | Nick Brown

Daily Coffee News photo by Nick Brown. A groundbreaking effort led by Oregon-based nonprofit World Coffee Research (WCR) just delivered the most extensive real-world evaluation to date of how arabica coffee varieties stand up to their most relentless natural foe: coffee leaf rust. Published in Frontiers in Plant Science, the study analyzed the natural performance of 29 arabica coffee varieties across 23 field sites in 15 countries.

2 weeks ago | dailycoffeenews.com | Nick Brown

The coffee “C market” and “passion” are not phrases that typically go hand in hand. Yet for the past six months, a Bay Area couple has been spending nights and weekends readying Futures.Coffee, a free website for quick-reference commodity coffee price info.

2 weeks ago | dailycoffeenews.com | Nick Brown

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is accusing the owner of an Oakland, California, coffee shop of discrimination after the shop allegedly refused to serve two Jewish customers. Filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the suit comes amidst rising political and cultural tensions in the United States against the backdrop of the armed conflict in Gaza.

3 weeks ago | dailycoffeenews.com | Nick Brown

Seattle-based green coffee trader StoneX Specialty Coffee recently opened a warehouse outside Kansas City, Missouri, bringing more green coffees and professional coffee services to the central United States. While StoneX coffees are currently available through five partner warehouses — including in Washington, Oregon, California, New Jersey and Texas — the new facility northwest of downtown Kansas City in Riverside is StoneX’s first company-owned-and-operated U.S. warehouse.

3 weeks ago | dailycoffeenews.com | Nick Brown

After a meteoric rise in popularity through the 2010s fueled in part by a message from its founder that coffee has mold that makes you weak, Seattle-based coffee and lifestyle brand Bulletproof has rebranded in 2025 with a much sunnier refrain: “Coffee that lifts you up.” The company announced its new look yesterday, including a new logo and packaging that will be featured on bags of Bulletproof coffees destined for consumers online or through grocery outlets such as Amazon/Whole Foods,...