Access to real coffee beans was almost impossible in the Soviet Union, so “coffee” could mean many things in the country. The real surprise was the potency of the drink. In a typical Soviet ...

Decaffeinated coffee is growing on trees in Japan. The genetically modified bushes could yield low-caffeine beans within three or four years 1. Whether consumers will prefer them to chemically ...

Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she's raised from a seedling, searching anxiously for its first fruit buds since she planted it three years ago. When she ...

The beans were bad by modern coffee-geek standards, but it was cheap, and it delivered caffeine—the only two relevant criteria for many coffee drinkers both then and now.