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On Monday, the LA Times ran an article titled Coffee drinkers rejoice: Price of beans hits four-year low.  Now, we're glad that favorable weather conditions are helping increase coffee production.  And, you certainly can't blame consumers (or the LA Times) for welcoming lower prices.   However, keep in mind that lower green coffee prices can adversely affect the financial well-being of

An Agtron machine reflects light on a sample of coffee in order to objectively and accurately assign a number to the beans' roast color.  The smaller the number, the darker the roast.   If you're interested in some additional background, refer to a blog we posted in 2010: http://bit.ly/1b7fLNR. The reason that I started thinking about Agtron readings is that it seemed like a lot of recent

Earlier this year, we speculated that Coffee Review readership in Taiwan could exceed that of Australia if traffic growth rates continued.  Well, it has happened, at least for September.  Visits from Taiwan leapfrogged those from Australia, making Taiwan our fourth largest source of visitors, after only the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. If Coffee Review readership is any

This week, the highly respected Mayo Clinic published findings that suggest excess coffee consumption, defined as more than four cups per day every day, increases the likelihood of early death in people under the age of 55.  The study concluded, in part: "On the basis of these findings, it seems appropriate to suggest that younger people avoid heavy coffee consumption (ie, averaging >4 cups per

Our August issue, featuring specialty coffees from Honduras, should post tomorrow, Sunday, August 4.  The cupping is complete.  Nine coffees scored 90 points or higher.  We'll include all of them in the article.   If you can't wait until tomorrow to read about Honduran coffees, there are 4 dozen Honduran coffee reviews on the site as well as numerous articles that reference Honduras.

Well, Coffee Review certainly does.  Given that you're reading this post, you probably care.  The roughly one million people who visit CoffeeReview.com each year care, at least enough to visit.  But what we're really trying to get at is which cities are most interested in coffee... most passionate about coffee, if you will? To answer that question, we looked at Coffee Review visitors by city

Perhaps as we approach the All-American holiday of Independence Day, it's appropriate to consider what the "best" American coffee is.  And, given that Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows commercial quantities of coffee, it might naturally lead to the question "What's the best Hawaiian coffee?" That is a question raised in a recent reader search on CoffeeReview.com.  First of all, as

We track the search terms that readers use to find CoffeeReview.com.   Recently I noticed quite a few readers looking for information about low acid coffees.  One reader was even trying to find out what acid was added to coffee. Well, to answer the question, acid is generally not ADDED to coffee.  It occurs naturally and actually provides what Kenneth Davids calls a "sweetly tart spark" that

I was curious who received the first 90-point coffee review, which lead me to re-read the first Coffee Review article from 1997. Wow! “I have been convinced that the time has come to start assigning numerical rankings to cuppings as my counterparts have been doing for some time with wines, beers and cigars. These rankings are expressed as a number from 0 to 100….” – Kenneth Davids, Coffee