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Record-Breaking Coffee Auctions: Inside the World of $10,000+ Per Pound Beans

In August 2025, a 45.5-kilogram lot from Hacienda La Esmeralda’s Private Collection sold at Panama’s Best of Panama…

Arabica futures hit $4.41 per pound in February 2025 — the highest price on record, and more than…

In 2025, Ethiopia formally advanced its application to UNESCO to recognize its traditional coffee ceremony as an intangible…

Coffee contains more than 30 distinct organic acids — citric, malic, tartaric, phosphoric, and others — each contributing…

Pour a double espresso and a standard pour-over into separate glasses and you’re looking at two liquids that…

In the labs where coffee researchers study extraction, they measure something called particle size distribution — a curve…

For every pound of authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee produced, the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica estimates that…

Coffee cherries grown above 1,500 meters take 9–10 months to ripen, compared to 6–7 months at lower elevations.…

The bag on the shelf at your supermarket says “best by October 2026.” The coffee inside was roasted…