Coffee and wine culture are powerful enough that some center their personality around them. Spunky adages like "Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee" and "I'm like wine, I just get better with ...

Two people holding cups of coffee - Liquid Sky Studio/Getty Images Coffee beans go through a lot of changes before reaching your cup. The coffee-roasting process takes the original green coffee bean ...

Decaffeinated coffee doesn't exactly get a lot of love. When you see mugs that read things like "Death before decaf," it raises an important question: Do people simply want their coffee with caffeine, ...

This article appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of Discover magazine as "Dissecting Decaf." Subscribe for more stories like these. For many of us, a cup of coffee is the first thing on our minds ...

IT WAS THE SMELL that got me. Normally, a cup of coffee smells roasty, or meaty, or in some sad cases burnt, but this was different. This one smelled like blueberries. Not vaguely of blueberries, or ...