With a quick flip of a switch, a batch of green coffee beans is pulled from a large vat and into a 77-pound capacity roaster at Acoustic Java's Brussels Street location in Worcester. The beans begin ...

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One of the largest roasting facilities in the area has broken ground on a new, larger facility. Java Estate Roastery, currently located on Sloop Point Loop Road in Hampstead, has plans for a ...

WORCESTER — The sound of intermittent slurping filled a corner of Acoustic Java’s roastery late last week, as four of the city’s five breweries tasted their way through an array of coffee roasts.

WORCESTER - Nanny Sydney Guthrie of Worcester scoops up her charge, Ben Keefe, who will turn 2 on Feb. 3, during their breakfast Wednesday at Acoustic Java Roastery & Tasting Room on Brussels Street.

Coffee beans that are unroasted, called green coffee beans, spend anywhere from about five to 20 minutes being roasted. Heather Baumgartner, owner of Jumpstart Java, is taking over and rebranding a ...