Page 2 - Coffee Trends

The craft coffee and liquor industries have begun to converge, but baristas and bartenders can learn important lessons from each other to improve their skills and their happiness on the job.

From the Brewers Cup stage to your kitchen, these four new pourover coffee brewers are changing the game in manual filter coffee.

Conventional wisdom says that it takes 12-24 hours to make cold brew. But with these recent equipment innovations, you can brew it in under an hour.

A whole new generation of barista, roasters, coffee buyers and tasters are taking over specialty coffee. Education and training campuses like Firedancer Coffee Consultants are ready to receive in the insurgence of excitement in specialty.

The barista community has gotten a bad rap over the years - they're seen as pretentious, coffee know-it-alls and oblivious to their customers needs. Why has this happened? And what can the specialty coffee community do to reverse this perception and reach ordinary coffee drinkers?

Instant coffee has long been known as low-quality joe, but a few daring companies in specialty coffee are turning that perception around.

A panel of baristas and judges discussed coffee competitions and Barista Championships at Barista Nation New York, sponsored by Urnex

Check out Urnex at Global Specialty Coffee Expo 2017 and learn more about 1-2 Cold Brew Cleaning and Sanitizing Kit & new Cold Brew trends.