Because the yr involves an finish and 2025 quick approaches, we mirror on Barista Journal On-line’s most seen tales of 2024.
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And identical to that, one other yr is over! As we set our sights on 2025, it’s time for us to fondly mirror on the unimaginable espresso occasions, competitions, and thrilling new gear releases the previous 12 months have introduced us, together with the entire breathtaking cities we had the possibility to discover. To have a good time the brand new yr, we’ve gathered Barista Journal On-line’s 5 hottest tales in 2024—learn on to be taught what our readers had been loving this yr.
#5. 4 Cool Cafés to Test Out in Osaka
With its cherry blossom timber, peaceable temples, and world-renowned culinary scene, Osaka, Japan has slightly one thing for everybody. It’s no shock that town additionally hosts a vibrant espresso world, with crowds of shoppers lining up for well-loved retailers like Mel Espresso Roasters, Lilo, and Haiku. On this article, Senior On-line Correspondent Tanya Nanetti leads us by way of the metropolitan space and unveils the numerous specialty-coffee gems it has to supply.
#4. 5 Cool Cafés to Attempt in Seoul
Including to her spectacular checklist of standard metropolis guides, Tanya Nanetti provides us a tour of Seoul, South Korea, highlighting town’s key cafés and roasteries like Fritz Espresso Firm and Namusairo. “It solely took just a few hours within the metropolis for Seoul to steal our hearts,” Tanya writes. “Attractive and vibrant, with its towering skyscrapers blended with conventional villages and stylish neighborhoods flanking imperial websites, Seoul is a metropolis to discover in its entirety. … It’s a metropolis to expertise with all 5 senses.”
#3. Know Your Elements: Star Anise
Created by On-line Editor Emily Pleasure Meneses, our “Know Your Elements” collection explores the histories behind components generally present in cafés, like star anise: a spice with roots in Vietnam and China. On this article, we focus on the cultivation of star anise all through Asia, and the way the ingredient made its technique to the Western world.
#2. 5 Lovely Cafés in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Price a Go to
The handfuls of cafés that line the streets of Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Vietnam, serve up native favorites like ca phe trung (egg espresso) and ca phe sua da (dark-roast espresso sweetened with condensed milk). Once more, Senior On-line Correspondent Tanya Nanetti boldly exhibits us the way in which, spotlighting town’s prime 5 espresso retailers.
#1. Know Your Sweeteners: Stevia
You see these acquainted inexperienced packets in all places: on café counters, alongside cups of black espresso on the diner, stashed in your grandparents’ cabinet. Today, stevia is as frequent as plain outdated sugar—however how did the sugar substitute develop to be a part of our each day espresso rituals? On this article, Emily Pleasure Meneses returns to debate stevia’s origins and the way it turned such an integral side of worldwide espresso tradition.
That’s all we now have for this yr! We are able to’t wait to see what 2025 has in retailer for the specialty-coffee world.
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