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 ...

It's the day before Thanksgiving, and there's a funny smell in the WIRED kitchen. Bonaverde's Felix Artmann, a fit 26-year-old German, scoops green coffee beans out of a small burlap sack and dumps ...

Your coffee beans might have been roasted by a robot, and that’s a good thing. Find out how technology meets technique in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John McCarthy is a spirit, travel, and lifestyle journalist, managing editor, and author of The Modern Gentleman. The story of For ...

At first, Mr. Kawano of LIGHT UP COFFEE contacted us, saying he had purchased a vintage 1960s German-made roasting machine named "Probat UG22”. When we heard that the machine had been sold to him by ...

It all started about nearly 15 years ago when I had a conversation with a friend who’d recently taken up the hobby of home coffee roasting. The motivation? First, quality and taste, but also to cut ...