There’s a war in coffee right now. On one side, you have the coffee geeks, hand-crafting each cup with artisanal tools and incredible care. On the other, you have the automation-hungry, the K-cup ...

Until the early 20th century, roasting coffee, like baking bread, was one of many common weekly household tasks folks did themselves. Much of the coffee was roasted in an open pan on top of a hot ...

It’s now possible to roast coffee beans at home with a few taps on a smartphone. According to the device’s Kickstarter page, the Ikawa is “the world’s first digital micro-roaster.” It’s controlled ...

Yes, this one is as weird as it sounds: The engineer behind the We Make Things blog (known only as “rxdtxd”) took the drum out of an old washing machine and made it into a giant coffee roaster coffee ...

Calling all coffee aficionados! You may have zeroed in on your preferred brewing method, but you can up your coffee cred even more by roasting the beans yourself. That's what Ikawa wants you to think, ...

An old German coffee roaster machine in Yacolt was acknowledged in December as the oldest of its kind by world-renowned manufacturer Probat. In April, a team of executives and engineers from Probat ...

Those who have tasted specialty coffee done right—the round acidity, the sweet-syrupy body on the heels of a malty aroma—understand why enthusiasts line up for a single cup that can cost upward of $6.