&gt; Those beans were harvested, loaded on ships bound for the port of Houston, Texas, and ended up at a factory within sight of downtown Houston: Atlantic Coffee Solutions.<p>I occasionally object to business&#x27; use of the term &quot;... solutions,&quot; noting that my science-educated mind is wont to interpret &quot;solution&quot; as in &quot;solvent&quot; rather than as in &quot;solve,&quot; but here for once I guess it works either way.<p>The article makes me curious to know what coffee brands are sourced through such industrial means (though my initial guess would be, almost all of them), and its interesting that even the manager of this plant has no idea what products his caffeine is actually winding up in.  Are there ways to track this sort of commodity-flow?  I imagine large parts of it must be public to some degree.