<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">‘Specialty coffee is a term for the highest grade of coffee available, typically relating to the entire supply chain, using single origin or single estate coffee[1][2]. The term was first used in 1974 by Erna Knutsen in an issue of Tea & Coffee Trade Journal. Knutsen used specialty coffee to describe beans of the best flavor which are produced in special micro-climates.[3]<div class=""><br class="">Specialty coffee is related to what is known as the Third Wave of Coffee[4], especially throughout North America. This refers to a modern demand for exceptional quality coffee, both farmed and brewed to a significantly higher than average standard.’</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">'While specialty coffee in North America is rarely offered in major coffee chains, the Third Wave of Coffee[4] has resulted in a significant increase in specialty coffee consumption. Independent, ‘Australian-style’, or artisan cafes have opened in multiple cities[13][14][12]. An SCAA report estimated the US had 29,300 specialty coffee shops in 2013, up from 2,850 in 1993[15].</div><br class="">Europe is already a major coffee market accounting for 30% of global consumption, but is seeing a growth in demand for specialty coffee while overall demand remains stable[16]. In 2016, specialty coffee was Europe’s fastest growing major restaurant category, with an increase of 9.1% from 2014-2015.’<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_coffee" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_coffee</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">amenity=cafe & cuisine=coffee_shop are used to tag establishments most known for serving coffee. This includes large chains like Starbucks that serve a variety of coffee based drinks made with commercially roasted beans, independent cafe’s serving either nothing but black, American style, drip coffee and those making specialty coffee drinks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are tags for the preparation method:</div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">drink:filter_coffee</li><li class="">drink:espresso</li><li class="">drink:coffee:automatic</li></ul><div class="">While consumers might have a preference for the way their drink is prepared, the coffee source is also an important factor.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have looked through the wiki and taginfo and the closest thing I could find is one use cafe of diet:specialty_coffee, but I’m not sure that’s an appropriate namespace. real_ale has 1819 uses for beer with no namespace. Are suggestions? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Other tags:</div><div class="">microroasting=yes has 64 uses, mainly on amenity=cafe, in the same way microbrewery=yes is used for pubs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Existing information:</div><div class="">European Coffee Trip has 1893 cafe’s serving specialty coffee in Europe.</div><div class=""><a href="https://europeancoffeetrip.com/city-guides/" class="">https://europeancoffeetrip.com/city-guides/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>