This is "the week of cafés without coffee", tweets Keaton Ritchie, second runner-up at the 2013 National Barista Championships. The possible cause, reports Anthony Benda of Café Myriade, is "severe weather in the States. Most ordering from American roasters have their coffee distributed through various UPS depots, and I think that they were overwhelmed with post-holiday deliveries as well, compounding the problem." [Twitter]
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