Coffee Stories

For many people who have fallen in love with coffee, they describe the taste of amazing beans that captured their imaginations of what future brews could taste like. Some become obsessed with the scent, others become fascinated by the first aromatic bloom. For Claudiu, it started off with a job.…

Greeting to see you my coffee friends. My name is James Luke. I can trace my foray into specialty coffee back to three specific moments in my life: My grandma, the relationship between art and coffee, and the first cup of Turkish coffee I ever had that helped me to…

Growing up in an Arabic household in Bahrain, you could say that Nasser probably drank coffee without thinking anything about it. Everyone in his family drank coffee. After all, the Arabian Peninsula was one of the earliest birthplaces of coffee cultivation and trade. However, it took him to go on…

My name is Samson Kibunja, and this is my coffee story. Samson Kibunja - barista, latte art throwdown competitor, and judge - grew up with coffee beans in lifeblood. Ever since he was a child, he would recall visiting his grandfather, who was a coffee producer. He would see the…