People in Coffee

Alex Hall has opened five coffee shops in New York City over the last 10 years, bringing the Australian café model to the United States, and recently opened his newest shop in Des Moines, Iowa. He […]

Floy Andrews, co-founder of Bay Area CoRoasters, talks to us about her past life as a lawyer, what she knows about the sharing economy, and why people need to pay more for coffee. BY ASHLEY RODRIGUEZ […]

We talk to Doug Hewitt and Rachel Taber, the co-owners of 1951 Coffee Company, a nonprofit organization that provides job training and employment to the Bay Area’s refugee community. BY CHRIS RYAN BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE […]

The struggles of being a leader is real, and that’s why we’re publishing all of Elle Taylor’s incredibly candid interview with Barista Magazine. (Read part one here.) In part two, the owner of Denver’s Amethyst […]

Elle Taylor is the owner of Amethyst Coffee in Denver, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a better, more inspiring leader who is as candid with her thoughts, mistakes, and goals. Here’s part one of […]

Juliet Han studied music before she landed in coffee, finding herself at the infamous murky coffee in Washington, D.C. Now the head roaster for Blue Bottle, Juliet talks to us about her music background, how she got […]

The owners of Ebrik Coffee Room in Atlanta have created a community that offers the best of specialty coffee and is known for offering various brew methods. One of the owners, Abbas Arman, takes a moment […]

One day, Sandra Loofbourow went to visit her friend’s newest cafe in the Sunset District of San Francisco. The next week she was pulling shifts, and now she’s the head roaster and green buyer for […]