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New drinks land at every Joe café starting September 1st, including the winner of this season's staff beverage competition and a new tea from our friends at Kettl.

Growing up on an island north of Seattle, the smell of freshly roasted coffee would waft through Ally Lynch's backyard. Now she's the winner of Joe Coffee's fall seasonal menu competition, and her Iced Maple Latte with Tahini Cold Foam hits cafes September 1st.

It took a leap of faith and a friend in her corner for Mia Mintz to trade Texas for New York. Nearly a year in at Joe Coffee's Lincoln Square cafe, she's found something she didn't expect: a family away from home.

Kate Tewksbury grew up playing ice hockey at Chelsea Piers. One of the other kids on her team had a dad who started coming to watch, then decided to give the sport a try himself. He never really stopped.

Emily Curtis's family wasn't big on coffee. Her parents drank Folgers with hazelnut creamer, easy and unremarkable. Her brother told her once that it was illegal for anyone under 16 to drink it, and she took that completely at face value.

The first coffee James McCarthy ever tasted came out of his dad's percolator, thick as mud, brewed and re-brewed until it barely resembled a drink. He was ten and sure he hated it.

Approximately 3,675 miles across the pond in Mons, Belgium, there's a patisserie by the name of Colson, belonging to a man named Hubert Colson. For generations, it's been one thing: making beautiful pastries the right way.

Growing up in Japan, there were always two bottles of iced coffee in the fridge — her mom's unsweetened, her dad's with sugar. Mami Perez always went for her dad's.

Two New York families. Connected for decades before they ever formally worked together. In 1986, Taylor Morabito's mother opened a six-seat café in Gramercy Park and called it Friend of a Farmer. Forty years later, her son is one of ours.