Jessica Keenan, the brand president of Ascension coffee, is one of fewer than 700 Americans who have passed a rigorous Q Grader test to be certified to grade green coffee beans.

Graders evaluated 11,051 bags of a total volume of 27,834 bags that was pending grading, passing 6,475 bags while rejecting 4,576 bags. The rejection rate is high, considering past rounds.

ICE said in the report that there are 166,027 bags of arabica coffee pending grading at its certified exchanges, of which 133,568 bags come from top grower Brazil.

Three strongly caffeinated drinks and a coffee grading session later, I felt more clued up than I had before, whilst also feeling extremely energetic as I got to try out the brand's flagship ...

The Swiss-based coffee company has teamed up with Singapore-based AI-driven food ingredient profiler ProfilePrint to invest in Csmart, a Brazil-based developer of AI-powered image recognition ...