Making Coffee with Lucia Solis

I’m writing this from a hotel in the small town of Ataco, El Salvador. I’ve been away from home for 21 days out what will eventually be 120. It’s currently coffee harvest time in Central America this ...

18 Nov 201915min

You heard my experience getting my Q grader license on last weeks episode. Today’s podcast is a continuation of the Q grader discussion but focusing on its role with coffee producers. I mentioned that...

11 Nov 201927min

What is a Q Grader? In the coffee industry the Q Grader license is often compared to the sommelier exam in wine—this is a shorthand that can be useful to provide some vague ballpark approximation, bu...

4 Nov 201924min

I find the term "over fermentation" to be especially annoying. From a biology point of view this term is nonsense. When coffee professionals use this term it's understood to mean a defect, usually vi...

28 Okt 201921min

If you made it through last week's deep dive about how we talk about and label specialty coffee - you've earned your coffee-nerd badge! This week I want to pull back the lens and talk more broadly abo...

21 Okt 201922min

The first step in expanding the role of processing in the coffee quality conversation is how we label these coffees. I have noticed a lot of redundancy and confusion in how we describe the coffees. I'...

14 Okt 201928min

In this very first episode, I wanted to give you a little background on how I approach coffee processing as a former winemaker and microbiologist. I discuss the similarities and differences in the pro...

7 Okt 201917min

A behind the scenes look at one of the world's favorite beverages. Lucia is a former winemaker turned coffee processing consultant. This podcast will talk about the steps in getting a coffee cherry re...

25 Sep 201956s