Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries

This episode takes you through the basics of good water for coffee. To objectively assess a coffee's quality, both producer and buyer need to taste it using the same water. But whose water standards should you choose? Why do roasters often get to define what the "right" water is? What would the coffee world look like if producers set quality standards instead of roasters? Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will help you understand coffee farming better than most professionals you'll meet at a trade show. Each episode takes one part of the farming business — agronomy, processing, fermentation, storage, quality, sales — and lays out what the best farms are actually doing. Related podcast episodes: James: Filter Stories: How Heat Transforms Coffee Beans Filter Stories: How to Be a Better Taster Filter Stories: Getting Great Water, Step by Step Follow us through our newsletters and Social media: Lucia's Newsletter James's Newsletter Lucia Instagram James' Filter Stories Instagram People mentioned in the episode: Karla Boza — Jacinta Y Su Cafe, San Benito, El Salvador Paulino Quintero — Huila, Colombia Jesús Antonio Chala — Finca El Silencio, Colombia Thompson Owen — Sweet Maria's Coffee, USA Lahari Balireddi — ASG Coffee, Kenya Manuel Barsallo — Agrícola Geisha, Panama Lorenz Haschka — BWT water+more Resources: Video: How to Make Cold Brew Physical Coffee Diary Digital App: Coffee Brew Log Digital App: Tasting Notes Sweet Maria's guide to roasting in a pan or popper, with video Sweet Maria's roasting on a pan or popper tip sheet Sweet Maria's air popper resources and video Filter Stories guide: Roasting your own coffee (English) Guía de Filter Stories: Cómo tostar tu propio café (en español) Guide to getting a good sample roast Video: How to Cup Coffee at Home SCA Cupping Workshop Video: How to use an Alkalinity Dropper Kit Buy a water test kit SCA Water Control Chart Water calculator to adjust alkalinity Make your Own Water for Coffee Video: Make your own water for coffee BWT bestmax PREMIUM (under-sink option) BWT bestbarista ROC COFFEE PDFs of CVA Form in 7 languages The SCA Coffee Value Assessment, Extrinsic Criteria List Digital App: Catador Digital: CVA in your web browser Cover art: Nick Hafner The Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations: The Coffee Quest | BWT water+more | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainPro Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off.

This episode is a practical guide to tasting coffee, sample roasting and judging quality, built for small producers on a tight budget. That makes it just as useful if you’re early in your coffee journey and want to learn the basics without spending thousands on equipment, starting with a frying pan or a $30 popcorn popper. If you work in coffee, it reveals the obstacles producers face when they try to discuss quality on equal terms with buyers in the global north. Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will help you understand coffee farming better than most professionals you'll meet at a trade show. Each episode takes one part of the farming business — agronomy, processing, fermentation, storage, quality, sales — and lays out what the best farms are actually doing. Related podcast episodes: James: Filter Stories: How Heat Transforms Coffee Beans Filter Stories: How to Be a Better Taster Filter Stories: Getting Great Water, Step by Step Follow us through our newsletters and Social media: Lucia's Newsletter James's Newsletter Lucia Instagram James' Filter Stories Instagram People mentioned in the episode: Karla Boza — Jacinta Y Su Cafe, San Benito, El Salvador Paulino Quintero — Huila, Colombia Jesús Antonio Chala — Finca El Silencio, Colombia Thompson Owen — Sweet Maria's Coffee, USA Lahari Balireddi — ASG Coffee, Kenya Manuel Barsallo — Agrícola Geisha, Panama Lorenz Haschka — BWT water+more Resources: Video: How to Make Cold Brew Physical Coffee Diary Digital App: Coffee Brew Log Digital App: Tasting Notes Sweet Maria's guide to roasting in a pan or popper, with video Sweet Maria's roasting on a pan or popper tip sheet Sweet Maria's air popper resources and video Filter Stories guide: Roasting your own coffee (English) Guía de Filter Stories: Cómo tostar tu propio café (en español) Guide to getting a good sample roast Video: How to Cup Coffee at Home SCA Cupping Workshop Video: How to use an Alkalinity Dropper Kit Buy a water test kit SCA Water Control Chart Water calculator to adjust alkalinity Make your Own Water for Coffee Video: Make your own water for coffee BWT bestmax PREMIUM (under-sink option) BWT bestbarista ROC COFFEE PDFs of CVA Form in 7 languages The SCA Coffee Value Assessment, Extrinsic Criteria List Digital App: Catador Digital: CVA in your web browser Cover art: Nick Hafner The Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations: The Coffee Quest | BWT water+more | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainPro Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off.

What is the right price for coffee? This episode shows what the journey of price discovery looks like from the perspective of a coffee farmer. Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will help you understand coffee farming better than most professionals you'll meet at a trade show. Each episode takes one part of the farming business - agronomy, processing, fermentation, storage, quality, sales - and lays out what the best farms are actually doing. Related podcast episodes: Lucia: #64: "What Kind of Coffee Lover am I? How Much am I Willing to Pay for a Cup of Coffee?" James: Filter Stories: The Hard Business of Selling Beautiful Coffee Follow us through our newsletters and Social media: Lucia’s Newsletter James’s Newsletter Lucia Instagram James’ Filter Stories Instagram People mentioned in the episode: Karla Boza — Jacinta Y Su Cafe, San Benito, El Salvador Julia Ortega, Finca Los Pinos, Puebla Mexico Edilberto Tovar — Finca La Esmeralda, Huila, Colombia Melissa de Gasperín — Rancho San Felipe, Veracruz, Mexico Diego Robelo — Aquiares Estate, Turrialba, Costa Rica Cristian Reyes — Finca El Rodeo, Santander, Colombia César Marín — Chacra D'Dago, Peru Gilberto Baraona — Los Pirineos, Usulutan, El Salvador Lalo Perez, Biofilia ASOPEP, Planadas, Tolima, Colombia Piedras Azules cooperative, El Salvador Agnes Thieleke, InterAmerican Coffee Europe Resources: Record keeping and profitability analysis V-Hub (formerly Cropster Hub) Coffee Yield Calculator Cost-of-production calculator Fairtrade Verified Living Income reference prices Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide Chad Trewick interview on Bellwether podcast Heifer / ASOPEP / Fairtrade Tolima living income study Book: The Culture Map by Erin Meyer Cover art: Nick Hafner The Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations: The Coffee Quest | BWT water+more | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainPro Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off.

This episode explores the strange world of the C market, where movements in the Brazilian currency or rebels boarding a random container ship decide the worth of a Colombian farmer's coffee. Yet specialty coffee still uses this number to price the coffees it says are anything but a commodity. Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will help you understand coffee farming better than most professionals you'll meet at a trade show. Each episode takes one part of the farming business - agronomy, processing, fermentation, storage, quality, sales - and lays out what the best farms are actually doing. Related podcast episodes: Lucia: #64: "What Kind of Coffee Lover am I? How Much am I Willing to Pay for a Cup of Coffee?" James: Filter Stories: The Hard Business of Selling Beautiful Coffee Follow us through our newsletters and Social media: Lucia’s Newsletter James’s Newsletter Lucia Instagram James’ Filter Stories Instagram People mentioned in the episode: Karla Boza — Jacinta Y Su Cafe, San Benito, El Salvador Julia Ortega, Finca Los Pinos, Puebla Mexico Edilberto Tovar — Finca La Esmeralda, Huila, Colombia Melissa de Gasperín — Rancho San Felipe, Veracruz, Mexico Diego Robelo — Aquiares Estate, Turrialba, Costa Rica Cristian Reyes — Finca El Rodeo, Santander, Colombia César Marín — Chacra D'Dago, Peru Gilberto Baraona — Los Pirineos, Usulutan, El Salvador Lalo Perez, Biofilia ASOPEP, Planadas, Tolima, Colombia Piedras Azules cooperative, El Salvador Agnes Thieleke, InterAmerican Coffee Europe Resources: Record keeping and profitability analysis V-Hub (formerly Cropster Hub) Coffee Yield Calculator Cost-of-production calculator Fairtrade Verified Living Income reference prices Specialty Coffee Transaction Guide Chad Trewick interview on Bellwether podcast Heifer / ASOPEP / Fairtrade Tolima living income study Book: The Culture Map by Erin Meyer Cover art: Nick Hafner The Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations: The Coffee Quest | BWT | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainPro Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off.

This episode explores what a trade show actually feels like for a farmer who flew in on money his community pooled together, why a sausage dog opened a door that hundreds of cold emails couldn't, and why learning English may be a better investment for a farmer than a longer fermentation. Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will help you understand coffee farming better than most professionals you'll meet at a trade show. Each episode takes one part of the farming business — agronomy, processing, fermentation, storage, quality, sales — and lays out what the best farms are actually doing. Related podcast episodes: Lucia: #54: Visiting Producers, Advanced Tourism & The Coffee Hunter (farm visits, the buyer relationship) #56: Pranoy Thipaia (finding export markets, expo advice) #65: To Blend or Not to Blend? Wine Vintages, and Harvest Update (sales strategy, consistency over novelty) Cabal Cafe Podcast en Espanol James: Filter Stories: The Hard Business of Selling Beautiful Coffee Follow us through our newsletters and Social media: Lucia’s Newsletter James’s Newsletter Lucia Instagram James’ Filter Stories Instagram People mentioned in the episode: Diego Robelo — Aquiares Estate, Turrialba, Costa Rica Cristian Reyes — Finca El Rodeo, Santander, Colombia Cristian Reyes — Personal Instagram Catherine Bedoya — Eje Cafetero, Colombia Hamsini Appadurai — Sangameshwar Coffee Estates, Chikmagalur, India Melissa de Gasperín — Rancho San Felipe, Veracruz, Mexico Edilberto Tovar — Finca La Esmeralda, Huila, Colombia Desnudo Coffee (Austin) — Austin, Texas, USA Alejandro Rodríguez Delgado — Hacienda San Pedrito, Puerto Rico César Marín — Chacra D'Dago, Peru Karla Boza — Jacinta Y Su Cafe, San Benito, El Salvador Resources: Algrano — Producer Sign Up The list of 144 international trade shows Clases Gratis de Inglés en linea - USA Learns Clases Gratis de Inglés en linea - Voa News English Accent Training The SCA Coffee Value Assessment, Extrinsic Criteria List PDFs of CVA Form in 7 languages The Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations: The Coffee Quest | BWT | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainPro Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off.