Jane Cabusas Espante chose the smaller stage. Cezve. Ibrik. Next to the Barista Championship or Brewers Cup, the pot rarely draws the same room. The return is uncertain. Sometimes the contest does not happen at all. She went anyway. The traditional brew. A story. A line back to the root. In Dubai she won the 2026 World Cezve/Ibrik Championship for the United Arab Emirates. A carbonic macerated Colombia Gesha with a natural Panama Gesha. Cryoconcentrate. Strawberries. Angel Kotsifakis second. Wael Hachem third. Not a Barista says the return was not measured in exposure.

On Wednesday, September 16, 2026, we hold that smaller stage to one pressure: whether the oldest brew still has a room when the cone is called out of control, and when a new cafe puts the work in the middle.

Sightglass opened its fifth cafe on the ground floor of UC Berkeley's Helen Diller Anchor House. Lundberg Design started from filtration and a vintage Probat. A long curved bar. The baristas at the center. The Global Coffee Awards Latin America edition, 12 August, named the region's best roasters and the producers behind those bags. Professor Steven Abbott calls the filter cone crazy. An out of control system. Their UX method tries to separate the variables. A magnetic stirrer. CoffeeGeek says decaf now costs as much as the good stuff. A paint stripper ban. Descafecol in Manizales ran out of slots. Green from Colombia sailed to Germany and back. The Flair 49 Pro is a passive lever on the 49 millimeter puck. The sample basket had holes off center. Barista Hustle says do not put stickers on the espresso machine. I'M NOT A BARISTA has been quiet from Shanghai toward Java. Young farmers. What comes next.

A smaller stage. Work at the center of the room. The fourth wave is not the louder championship. It is whether someone still chooses the pot that has to be kept.