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Standart is an independent magazine about coffee, people, and the culture that surrounds it. Published in English and Japanese, it comes with specialty coffee, and stories from some of the best coffee minds on the planet.
On the menu
Some things are better slow. Every issue of Standart ships worldwide with a coffee to brew as you read—and a community of fellow readers to share it with. No other magazine does this.
Magazine
A quarterly print magazine about coffee, and the people and places around it. Long-form writing, original photography, considered design—made to be kept on a shelf, not scrolled past.
Coffee
Every issue of Standart arrives with a freshly roasted specialty coffee from a world-class roaster, so you can read about coffee with a cup of it in your hand. No other magazine does this.
Community
A global readership you can reach from your phone. Recommendations, conversation, and the occasional good argument about co-fermented coffee.
Standart captures the intersection of coffee’s hospitality and science in a way that few others have ever achieved. Their dedication to highlighting pillars of the coffee industry, scientific innovations, and history through the lens of art has made them a must have on my bookshelf for years.
Morgan Eckroth | 2022 US Barista Champion & Coffee Content Creator
A publication that dreams big and deftly blends artistry, intellect, and a love for coffee into a delicious mix of articles with generous spirit, relevant material, and just the right amount of seriousness.
Geoff Watts | Co-founder of Intelligentsia Coffee
The articles in Standart cover a wide range of topics pertinent to the industry. The production value of the magazine is excellent, including the layout, photography, and illustration.
Jessica Godfrey | International Marketing at Coffee Supreme
Standart's success surprised me at first, as I had thought long-form print was dying. But it's gratifying to see coffee lovers embrace a magazine that dives deep, intelligently, into issues that matter to our industry.
Scott Rao | Consultant, coffee professional
Standart is the one and only coffee-centred magazine that tells culture diversity through coffee. It has intelligent contents and design, and is full of fact-based articles that stimulate my intellectual curiosity.
Hidenori Izaki | 2014 World Barista Champion
You’ll just as easily read a profile with a barista champion right after a piece exploring tasseography, the art of reading tea and coffee leaves. Content is at the forefront in Standart.
Jenn Chen | Coffee Content Creator
Standart is highest end celebration of coffee as art, science and people. A masterpiece of quality journalism advancing the understanding of all things coffee.
Tim Schilling | Former CEO of World Coffee Research
Partners of the new issue
Standart Issue 44
The all-new Issue 44 is all about radical curiosity: the itch to ask why, to turn down the side street, to peer a little closer at the cup in front of you.
Most of us have ditched actually putting sugar in our coffee, but we’d all probably opt for a sweet treat on the side. The question is: why? |
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How a mistranslated Arabic plant name gave coffee a false thousand-year pedigree. |
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Karen Marks’s ‘Cold Café ’ is the perfect karaoke song. Don’t believe us? Read on! |
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In a nostalgic haze, our correspondent traipses around Alex’s coffee shops, savouring the images that the past conjures. |
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Kenyan coffee is world-class; the system that sells it was built by people who believed Kenyans shouldn’t grow it. At Maguta Estate in the hills of Nyeri, a third-generation farmer is fixing that w...
Specialty coffee conquered Prague years ago; keeping it conquered is Ondra Štökl’s job. Part sommelier, part technician, part confidant, the head of coffee for a 30-venue restaurant group crisscros...
I’ll never forget my first time roasting a pacamara. As a barista, I had been enchanted by its complex floral aromatics, lively—electric, even—acidity, and impeccable structure. Yet, I had no idea ...
Coffee’s claim to a thousand-year history rests on a single word in a medieval encyclopaedia—and on a 17th-century scholar who mistranslated it. Tracing that error from its origin in Rome in 1671 t...
Sarapan is breakfast. Makan Tengah Hari is lunch. Makan Malam is dinner. Minum is drink. And coffee is… not quite so simple. This is all you need to know to conquer the heat and hangovers of a bing...
In Alexandria, bride of nostalgia, cafes may be little wormholes through which the tourist travels back in time. Your correspondent steps inside the sepia photo and looks around. Was Alexandria a c...
When it comes to accompaniments for our coffee, why is it that we seem to prefer sweet ones? A slice of cake, a matcha-and-white-chocolate brownie, a custard cream, anyone? The answer, it turns out...
Yeshu Tsegaye is quick to laugh, and quicker to make you laugh. We met her in the cupping lab at Bette Buna, the Addis Ababa-based company where she is head of sustainability, and brewed one of the...
Ethiopia is the birthplace of humanity and Coffea Arabica, giving rise to both our species and the coffee that would shape cultures worldwide. In Addis Ababa, a city of over six million, this relat...
Rachel Apple is a Cup of Excellence Head Judge, photographer, and co-founder of Raise the Bar, a community and education platform for specialty coffee professionals. She loves bin diving for vinyl,...
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