New research from Virginia Tech University finds that coffee filters not only keep oils from making their way to the cup during brewing but may also block the coronavirus.

 

Listen, I’m not saying that Miami Heat star forward Jimmy Butler’s impromptu coffee shop inside the NBA playoff bubble in Orlando has been the key to the team’s near-flawless success thus far, but how else do you explain a five seed blasting past the four and one seeds—only posting a single loss—and are on their way to doing the same to the two seed Boston Celtics? Clutch shooting? Lock down defense and show-stopping blocks from Bam Adebayo? Maybe. But’s what more likely is that Butler’s Big Face Coffee is the gasoline fueling this fine-tuned basketball machine. And Butler, every the shrewd business man, has applied to trademark it.

 

Do you like coffee or do you just want it? Put another way, do you drink coffee for the pleasure of it or is it something more functional, something associated with the addictive qualities of caffeine? A new study finds that “heavy coffee drinkers” want coffee more than they actually like drinking it.

 

Hospital workers are on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19. While even those of us with no connection (yet) to the virus have been nonetheless affected—financially, mentally, emotionally—the physical threat to hospital workers is tangible. As we are all social distancing and Zooming for a semblance of normalcy, they are running towards imminent danger on a daily basis.

 

[Takes huge bong rip] What if, like, we grew coffee… in space?

 

We are no doubt in the middle of an instant coffee renaissance. The once-maligned product created solely for times of necessity and convenience has seen an unprecedented interest by the specialty coffee community in bringing to the table quality where it hasn’t historically been. There are single-use pour-over kits, coffee bags a la tea satchels from Steeped and Counter Culture, K-Cup style pods from April and Volcano Coffee Works, and brands like Verve, Black & White, ReAnimator, and specialty instant godfathers Sudden have all created rather tasty expressions of coffee in dehydrated form.

 

One of the biggest sources of waste produced by coffee shops comes from disposable cups. You can make them recyclable and compostable all you want—both of which are inarguably good things, certainly better than the alternative—but unless folks use them to those ends instead of throwing them in the garbage, there is little to no qualitative difference between them and traditional to-go cups. And now, a Starbucks- and McDonald’s-backed pilot program is kicking off this week in Northern California that will track and redistribute reusable cups.

 

Step aside, milk, there’s a new osteo-hero in town, and its name is coffee. A new study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism from researchers at the University of Hong Kong finds that drinking coffee promotes bone mineral density, a key indicator of strong, healthy bones.

 

At this point is probably more expedient to list all the things you can’t make out of coffee or its byproducts. We’ve covered many of these discoveries over the years but we never cease to be amazed at just the versatility and breadth of product that has been created using coffee grounds. And today we learned of one company that is turning spent grounds into a substitute for palm oil, and the potential impact is huge.

 

Coming in at the 11th hour as a dark horse candidate for best coffee news of the year: dogs that look like tigers. That’s right, it’s a dog, but it’s been made to look like a tiger. And why was this dog given racing stripes (other than to look pretty sharp, of course)? Apparently to scare away monkeys.

 
 
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