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The Last Grind – An Official Announcement About the Future of MOMENTEM blogNews

The Last Grind – An Official Announcement About the Future of MOMENTEM

Dear coffee friends, After more than five years of development, countless prototypes, factory visits, sleepless nights, and some of the most challenging moments we’ve experienced at I’M NOT A BARISTA, we’ve made a difficult decision. MOMENTEM Batch #3 will be the final production batch made by I’M NOT A BARISTA.…
IMNAB
November 11, 2026
Windu Alifart Coffee Stories

Windu Alifart

The Coffee Was Never Just About Winning. From a small village in Indonesia to the international coffee community in the UAE, Windu Alifart’s journey is about mistakes, second chances, and discovering that some of life’s most meaningful victories belong to the people around us. Windu Alifart In 2017, a new…
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November 2, 2026
Meet Ma Yongquan (Tim): China’s 2026 AeroPress Champion ma-yongquan '26 china aeropress championblogEventsNews

Meet Ma Yongquan (Tim): China’s 2026 AeroPress Champion

81 competitors. Three days in Guiyang. One new champion. After three days of coffee, competition, workshops, and community celebrations, the 2026 China AeroPress Championship has crowned its champion: Ma Yongquan (Tim). Held from October 26–28 in Guiyang, China, the championship brought together coffee professionals, home brewers, judges, and coffee enthusiasts…
IMNAB
October 29, 2026
180 Wristbands, One Community: Supporting the 2026 China AeroPress Championship blogEventsNews

180 Wristbands, One Community: Supporting the 2026 China AeroPress Championship

Every competitor matters. Every volunteer matters. Every person behind the cup matters. This October, I’M NOT A BARISTA is proud to contribute 180 specially designed charity wristbands to the 2026 China AeroPress Championship, taking place in Guiyang, China, from October 26–28. Every competitor, volunteer, and organizing team member will receive…
IMNAB
October 22, 2026
Amalie Gagné-Acoulon Amalie Gagné-AcoulonCoffee StoriesUncategorized

Amalie Gagné-Acoulon

She appears at coffee competitions, stays on farms, teaches languages, and somehow knows people everywhere. But when we asked what she actually does, the answer turned out to be less important than the question. There are people in coffee whose work is easy to explain. They roast beans, run cafés,…
IMNAB
October 9, 2026
Mohammad Mousavi Coffee Stories

Mohammad Mousavi

There are people we meet at the right moment in life who change much more than what we know. Sometimes they teach us a skill. Sometimes they believe in us before we have much reason to believe in ourselves. And sometimes, the best mentors do something even more difficult: they…
IMNAB
October 4, 2026
Riza Zahrul Huda Coffee Stories

Riza Zahrul Huda

When we asked Riza Zahrul Huda about the biggest challenge he had faced in coffee, we expected to hear about farming. Maybe pests, changing weather, coffee quality, or the difficulty of helping coffee from a small village reach a bigger market. Instead, Huda went quiet. His eyes filled with tears,…
IMNAB
September 21, 2026
Simon Sun Unpublished

Simon Sun

When Simon Sun was a child, his dog disappeared. It had lived with his family for four or five years, long enough for Simon to become deeply attached to it. What stayed with him was not only the loss, but the fact that he never knew what happened. If the…
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September 12, 2026