In our August + September 2025 concern, we characteristic Julia Mayer from Dune Espresso Roasters in California! Additionally included: an in-depth take a look at Kratom and Kava, costume codes within the store, ’One on One’ with Ben Bicknell, and far, rather more!

BY SARAH ALLEN
BARISTA MAGAZINE

Welcome to the August + September 2025 concern of Barista Journal! We’re excited to share with you one other concern filled with implausible options, informative articles, in-depth interviews, and rather more. Our workforce of writers, designers, illustrators, and photographers contributed extra terrific work in creating this concern. We couldn’t do it with out them, and we wouldn’t do it with out you, our readers. Thanks for studying and supporting Barista Journal!

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Cowl Characteristic: Julia Mayer

We’re past excited to characteristic Julia Mayer on the duvet of the August + September 2025 concern. Together with her husband, Todd Stewart, Julia owns Dune Espresso Roasters in Santa Barbara, Calif., which they based 16 years in the past in 2009. Julia has a coronary heart as large because the ocean. She loves browsing and performs within the waves with Todd and their two sons each probability she will get. Julia was born in and continues to stay in Carpinteria, Calif., a tiny city that neighbors Santa Barbara. She has robust ties to her neighborhood: Her accomplishments embrace elevating a complete of $1.5 million for a skate park within the metropolis, which opened in 2023, and he or she presently serves on the Carpinteria Metropolis Council. Julia is proud that Dune Espresso is a part of the material of the area, and is dedicated together with Todd to paying honest wages to their 65+ workers, and the most effective costs they’ll to longtime producer companions just like the esteemed Benjamin Paz of Honduras. Julia’s story is a particular one. We invite you to be taught extra and be impressed by her by studying this cowl characteristic. Images by Sean R. Collier

‘The Finest Place to Be’

Being prepared to alter up your operations to satisfy your prospects’ calls for may help preserve your small business thriving. Within the characteristic article, “The Finest Place to Be: Join with Your Prospects to Evolve and Keep Related,” espresso enterprise advisor David Schwartz shares modern strategies café house owners can use to face out of their market and replicate and serve their prospects’ altering preferences. Along with the characteristic, we current a case research about one espresso firm proprietor’s efforts to do exactly this. Author Melina Devoney will introduce you to the unbelievable Mo Maravilla, proprietor of Los Angeles-based Kindness & Mischief Espresso, which has gone by a current rebirth to evolve and keep related. Illustration by NoNo Flores

‘The Inexperienced Ceiling’

After interviewing numerous girls in green-coffee sourcing who shared completely different variations of the identical story of a gender double commonplace, author Sarah Charles undertook the problem of exploring why the espresso trade harbors a “inexperienced ceiling.” On this article, Sarah spoke with girls from world wide—merchants, roasters, inexperienced consumers, and extra—concerning the environments they work in, the obstacles they face, and the way they’ve succeeded regardless of setbacks. Images courtesy of contributors

‘One on One: Ben Bicknell’

Ben Bicknell began his espresso profession as a part-time barista in Perth, Australia, the place specialty espresso had but to realize a foothold. Ben’s work over the following decade-plus would change the espresso tradition for Perth and construct on the established café scene all through the nation. At present working as an unbiased advisor, Ben is a sought-after Q Grader and educator, and the attitude he has on the broader trade is one that’s each well-developed and nicely value studying. He’s the topic of this concern’s “One on One.” Images courtesy of Ben Bicknell

And A lot Extra Inside

Additionally within the August + September 2025 concern: “The Knockbox“ focuses on the way to create a costume code that works for everybody by longtime espresso skilled, former U.S. Barista Champion, and retailing skilled Laila Ghambari; this concern’s “Tech Discuss“ is about constructing a tech vocabulary and was written by Rebecca Jones; a “Area Report“ concerning the rising specialty espresso scene in La Paz, Mexico, by Jen Roberts and far, rather more.  

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