In our June + July 2025 issue, we travel to Spain to meet with Dara Santana, known as the Water Wizard! Also included: a C-market guide for retailers, a pull-out preventative maintenance poster, ’One on One’ with Jenna Gotthelf, and much, much more!
BY SARAH ALLEN
BARISTA MAGAZINE
Welcome to the June + July 2025 issue of Barista Magazine! We’re excited to share our newest issue with you. We’ve packed it with compelling features, educational articles, in-depth interviews, and much more.
From articles on infused coffees and why they’re controversial to the announcement of a new service tech collective, we have newsworthy articles to keep you informed about what’s going on in specialty coffee. We also have practical stories to help professional baristas in their daily work, including an in-depth look at pouring lattes with plant milks as opposed to dairy and how a volatile C-market affects coffee retailers. And of course, we have interviews with notable people in coffee like our “One on One“ with Jenna Gotthelf and our cover subject, Dara Santana, who’s doing wonders with water with her new business in Madrid, Spain.
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Cover Feature: Dara Santana
Dara Santana’s work with water is revolutionizing coffee. In this issue’s cover feature, we meet this remarkable engineer whose entire career course was altered when she discovered the beauty of specialty coffee. She now devotes her life to teaching others about how water affects everything from processing to brewing.
‘From Oat to Art: Pouring Beautiful Lattes with Plant Milk’
While customers’ demand for alternative milks continues to grow, options for foam-worthy plant milks have increased recently as well, as writer Josh Rank discovers.
‘Thrills + Chills: Riding the Supply, Demands, and Disruptions of Today’s C-Market’
C-market volatility has made headlines and set recent price records. Ana Mallozi looks at what the C-market is, what drives price fluctuations, and what it means for retailers in the June + July 2025 issue.
‘One on One: Jenna Gotthelf’
From her home in New York, Jenna Gotthelf of Counter Culture Coffee has traveled the country educating people about coffee at different classes in different cities, rolling up miles like a veteran basketball player. We learn all about her in this interview.
Pull-Out Preventative Maintenance Poster
Thanks to the generous support of Urnex, every copy of the June + July 2025 issue includes a pull-out preventative maintenance poster to help you keep your café equipment in great shape. Compiled by longtime equipment service tech Jon Ferguson, the poster provides a quick reference tool for keeping your cleaning and maintenance on schedule. Pull out the poster and tack it on the wall in your training room!
And Much More Inside
Also in the June + July 2025 issue: “The Knockbox“ focuses on how to harness the power of pop-ups by longtime coffee professional, former U.S. Barista Champion, and retailing expert Laila Ghambari; this issue’s “Tech Talk“ was penned by Matthew Campbell, owner of Invoke Coffee Equipment; a “Field Report“ about the blossoming café culture in Aarhus, Denmark, by Caroline Cormier, Ph.D.; and much, much more.
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