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Ellen Fan 2025 Ellen Fan & JamisonCoffee Stories

Ellen Fan

Most people spend years trying to build a stable life. A good job, a respected career, and something their parents can proudly tell their friends about. Ellen Fan had already found that life. Before becoming known as a coffee hunter, before founding Grand Cru Coffee, before traveling across coffee-producing countries…
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June 17, 2026
Frederick Ruben Frederick RubenCoffee Stories

Frederick Ruben

If you’ve met Frederick Ruben at a coffee events chances are you’ve seen the same thing we did. He’s friendly. Easy to talk to. The kind of person who says hello to everyone in the room. Over the past few years, we’ve crossed paths with him several times at coffee…
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June 8, 2026
Noon NutRada Kunavivattananon Noon Nutrada KunavivattananonCoffee Stories

Noon NutRada Kunavivattananon

At twenty-seven, Noon Nutrada Kunavivattananon walked into a room as CEO of one of Thailand’s largest specialty coffee companies. A few years later, she walked into another room as the first female president of the Specialty Coffee Association of Thailand. In both rooms, most people were older than her. Some…
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May 24, 2026
Tay Wipvasutt Tay Wipvasutt Brave RoasterCoffee Stories

Tay Wipvasutt

For some people, coffee begins with a flavor. For others, it begins with a machine, a technique, or a competition. For Tay Wipvasutt, it began with people. Tay Wipvasutt Tay was still in his first year of university when he took a part-time job at a coffee shop. At that…
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May 4, 2026
Andrés Paparoni Andrés Paparoni from NomadCoffee Stories

Andrés Paparoni

For some people, coffee begins with a choice. For others, it’s already there, long before they understand what it means. For Andrés Paparoni, coffee was never something he discovered later in life. It was part of his world from the very beginning. Growing up in Venezuela, coffee wasn’t just a…
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April 28, 2026
Kay Cheon Kay CheonCoffee Stories

Kay Cheon

Before the stage, before the title, before representing a country, Kay Cheon’s journey in coffee began with something much quieter — a question that didn’t quite go away. At the time, coffee wasn’t part of a clear plan. His days were shaped by something else entirely, cycling before school, following…
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April 14, 2026
𝖩𝖺𝗇𝖾 𝖢𝖺𝖻𝗎𝗌𝖺𝗌 𝖤𝗌𝗉𝖺𝗇𝗍𝖾 Coffee Stories

𝖩𝖺𝗇𝖾 𝖢𝖺𝖻𝗎𝗌𝖺𝗌 𝖤𝗌𝗉𝖺𝗇𝗍𝖾

Some coffee competitions attract attention. Others quietly struggle to survive. Ibrik is one of them. Compared with the Barista Championship or Brewers Cup, Cezve/Ibrik coffee rarely draws the same audience. The stage is smaller, the return is uncertain, and sometimes the competition doesn’t even happen at all. Preparing for it…
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April 5, 2026