#31: What Are We Measuring When We Measure Brix?
I hope the previous podcast episode helped open your mind to some of the challenges we face in talking about sugar in the coffee industry. In today's episode we are adding another element, another pie...
19 Jan 202138min
#30 Untangling Sugar, Sweetness and Brix
Where does sweetness come from? Can something taste sweet that has no sugar? How can we measure sugar in coffee? This will be a more technical episode where we will talk about the sugar compounds like...
7 Jan 202136min
#29: How Can Yeast Help in a Rural Ugandan Setting: Consulting w/ The Coffee Gardens
Today you get to be a fly on the wall of a consulting session between myself and a coffee producer in Uganda. The Coffee Gardens is a newer project of coffee producers who have partnered with select c...
8 Des 202044min
#28: Origin, Native, Indigenous and Local: Building Our Coffee Vocabulary
If you started the season with me in October you’ll remember that I started exploring the topic of what we lose when we take a plant from its native environment. Episode #25: A California Coffee Farm ...
24 Nov 202040min
#27: Searching for the Escape Velocity of Coffee–w/ Mark from Finca Rosenheim
We usually hear about coffee from roasters or even people like me, who work with coffee producers but we are not producers ourselves. One of my podcast goals is to bring you directly to the source. Wh...
3 Nov 20201h 12min
#26: Do Coffee Trees Talk? How Underground Fungi Affect Coffee Quality
What is left behind when coffee moves to new locations. What is the trade off for innovation? This episode looks at what else we potentially leave behind when we introduce new plant material to non-n...
20 Okt 20201h 2min
#25: A California Coffee Farm & Native vs. Local Yeasts
This week I want to talk to you about where native coffee yeast come from. If you are concerned about coffee flavor manipulation by yeast, I hope by the end of the episode you have a broader understa...
6 Okt 202050min
#24: Tea and Coffee: Conscious Uncoupling w/ Aurora Prehn
Aurora is back for another tea chat. Unfortunately I think coffee and tea are often lumped together in similar categories but they have very different histories and I think it’s worth trying to de-co...
10 Aug 20201h 3min
