Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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My 2025 Coffee Roasting Predictions
1:11 Prediction 1 - A Hard Year Ahead for Roasters (including: coffee prices staying high)
07:13 Prediction 2 - Focus on Direct Relationships as Business Strategy (including: the death of spot coffee)
11:28 Prediction 3 - More Better Decaf (including: half caff)
13:54 Prediction 4 - Nicheification & Polarization (including: lighter lights and darker mediums)
18:28 Prediction 5 - Continuing Impact of Climate Change (including: intensifying hardships for coffee producers)

Do you agree? Disagree? Have other coffee industry predictions?
Let me know in the comments!