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Coffee Stories
Origin reports, industry news, coffee history, and roastery stories from Lakewood, Colorado.
- History
2021: Tuomas Merikanto — The First-Timer Who Won Everything
He had never competed before the Finnish championship. Four months later, he was world champion. Tuomas Merikanto proved that the Aeropress Championship belongs to anyone who understands extraction.
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2022: Jibbi Little — The Thunder from Down Under
She walked into Vancouver with a reputation and a bypass technique that nobody could match. Jibbi Little became the 2022 World Aeropress Champion and changed how competitors think about dilution.
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2025: Nemo Pop — The Water Wizard
His day job was researching water chemistry at APAX LAB. Then he applied it to the Aeropress and won the 2025 World Championship. Nemo Pop proved that water is not an afterthought — it's the primary variable.
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2023: Tay Wipvasutt — The Alchemist Who Added Coffee Mid-Brew
At 0:45, he added two more grams of coffee. The room went quiet. Nobody had seen a staged extraction on the World Aeropress stage before Tay Wipvasutt of Thailand.
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2024: George Stanica — The Romanian Minimalist
His recipe was so simple it looked obvious. That is the hardest thing to achieve. George Stanica of Romania won the 2024 World Aeropress Championship with perfect execution and zero mistakes.
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Bag-in-Box Coffee for High-Volume Accounts
Bag-in-box (20–50 lb) is a throughput format built for accounts moving serious volume — high-volume cafés grinding through beans all day, hotels running lobby stations, and operations that repackage beans for retail sale. If the coffee is cycling through in ten days or less, bag-in-box lowers your cost per pound and cuts the handling overhead that eats labor hours. If it's going to sit for a month, a smaller format is the honest answer.
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Burundi: The Coffee Country You've Never Heard Of (And Why You Should Care)
A country the size of Maryland, rebuilding through coffee after a civil war that killed 300,000 people. One man, one washing station, and 1,253 smallholder farmers producing coffee that Q-graders score at 92 points.
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Drop-Ship Coffee: Sell Coffee Online Without Roasting It Yourself
You can run a real coffee e-commerce brand without a roaster, a warehouse, or a heat-sealer — your customer places an order, we roast it fresh, pack it in a bag with your label on it, and ship it directly to them from Lakewood. Here is exactly how the model works, where the margins actually live, and what you need to have figured out before you start selling.
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How to Start a Coffee Shop: A Roaster's Honest Checklist
Every month someone calls about opening a café — this is the checklist I actually give them, covering startup costs, equipment, coffee supplier questions, and the hiring and permitting steps most first-timers don't plan for. Almost none of them fail because they picked the wrong roast. Most fail because they underestimated the capital or misread their location.
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How Much Coffee Does a Café Use? Sizing Your Coffee Program
The math isn't complicated — grams per drink, drinks per day, convert to pounds — but most new cafés either over-order and serve stale coffee for weeks, or under-order and run short on a Saturday. Here is how to size your coffee program before you place a single order, with real numbers from accounts we actually work with in Colorado.
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Ethiopia Natural Process: The 3,000-Year-Old Method That Tastes Like Blueberries
Before washed processing, before wet mills, before the fermentation tank was invented, ALL coffee was natural — dried inside the cherry like a raisin. Ethiopia still does it best.
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Choosing a Wholesale Coffee Roaster: What to Ask Before You Commit
Most roasters will tell you their coffee is great — the real conversation is about consistency, lead times, support, and what happens when something goes wrong on a holiday weekend. These are the questions to ask before you commit, and the red flags that reliably predict supply problems down the road.
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