Issue 18 is out now: Critique, Therapy and Toilets

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Explore the world through coffee

We love coffee for its ability to foster interesting conversations, chance meetings, and rich experiences. Standart is a quarterly published and print only publication, we dedicate more than 130 pages of beautifully designed and carefully curated content to the beauty of specialty coffee. Sit back, slow down, and enjoy the beauty of the offline world.

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Explore the world through coffee

We love coffee for its ability to foster interesting conversations, chance meetings, and rich experiences. Standart is a quarterly published and print only publication, we dedicate more than 130 pages of beautifully designed and carefully curated content to the beauty of specialty coffee. Sit back, slow down, and enjoy the beauty of the offline world.

Shipping worldwide.

Coffee

Immerse yourself in content that focuses on coffee, from seed to cup, including origin profiles, essays on the supply chain, scientific articles exploring coffee brewing and much more.

People

Standart never neglects the human side of coffee. Again, from seed to cup, read exclusive interviews, observations, profiles, and essays on the people in coffee and how they interact with the drink.

World

Throughout each issue of Standart, expect to see coffee used as an avenue by which to explore other facets of the world. We have creative stories and fiction, poetry, interviews with non coffee people, and our city profile, which uses coffee as a way to explore a city’s culture.

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"Standart is highest end celebration of coffee as art, science and people. A masterpiece of quality journalism advancing the understanding of all things coffee."

"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."

"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."

"Standart's ethos is to bring specialty coffee closer to the consumer while setting trends. We are proud to be a part of their mission."

"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."

"Standart sets a new paradigm for our industry in that it's informative, focused, thorough, thoughtful, and gorgeous."

"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."

What's in the latest issue?

In issue 18 we've turned our sights to the role of criticism in coffee. From pieces that explore the role criticism plays in our everyday lives and how we can turn it into constructive fuel for improvement, to a critical exploration of how we define ‘premium’ in paying farmers a decent price for their work.

Subscriptions are shipped with a sample bag of speciality coffee from our favourite roasters. For issue 18 we partnered up with our friends at Santa Theresa farm in Panama. and Dutch Colony Coffee Roasters from Singapore. We'll ship the most rarest coffee we've ever had: natural Gesha Zorro.

Issue 18 introduces an exciting new content structure that takes as its thematic centre a long-form essay ‘On Coffee and Criticism’ by the incredible Noa Berger—a social scientist working on coffee consumption.

The idea of critique, in its many forms, guides our newest release. From pieces that explore the role criticism plays in our everyday lives and how we can turn it into constructive fuel for improvement, to a critical exploration of how we define ‘premium’ in paying farmers a decent price for their work, to how Modernist writers Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot used coffee as a literary device to explore the fabric of consciousness.

Ready to take a critical look at coffee? How about criticism itself? Get your copy of Standart issue 18 now.