Standart Issue 43

Issue 43 celebrates heat in all its scorching glory—and comes with two covers.

In pole position of the new edition is no other than Formula One driver and friend of Standart @ValtteriBottas. He returns to our grid, this from his home in Monaco where we quizzed him on his coffee recommendations during a break between races. I turns out that drivers piloting earthbound rockets around circuits and judging corners by the millisecond still have time to think about flat whites!

Speaking of speed, we visit Kirk Pearson (@el.capitano.kirk) of @projectzero.coffee in Melbourne to see what laws of physics he breaks to make you a latte in just 15 seconds (spoiler alert: none).

In keeping with the asphalt-hot atmosphere, we bring you Los Angeles for our issue's city profile, before spinning a colour wheel and debating whether green is the new black in a piece by writer Tanya Nanetti (@tanya_coffee_travel) all about matcha, and how cafes are working it into their menus. 

In the interest of public safety, we offer a semi-medical guide on what to do when you take a sip of your Americano at a volcanic temperature—less fun than it sounds. To cool you off, we've prepared an idyllic short holiday in the Japanese alpine town of Hakuba, and explore the coffee culture of Malawi in our origin profile.

We close with a look at a 300-year-old heated rivalry that is King Frederick the Great versus coffee. The Prussian monarch hated it so thoroughly that his policies, as James Harper of @filterstoriespodcast explains, still shape what Germany drinks today. History is long, but grudges, apparently, even longer!