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Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries

James Harper

Coffee stories with an extra shot of history and science. Filter Stories is a podcast revealing coffee’s hidden microscopic secrets, its powerful past, and how your choice of beans impacts tens of millions of people. See the behind-the-scenes stories on Instagram @filterstoriespodcast. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the show and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

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Episodi

97 episodi

  1. Producer Toolkit: Decaf - Why it's so hard to find good decaf 54:04
  2. Producer Toolkit: Storage, Pt 2 - Why plastics are not all equal 28:55
  3. Producer Toolkit: Storage, Pt 1 - How coffee gets ruined on the farm 24:27
  4. Producer Toolkit: Quality Assurance, Pt 2 - The basics of good water for coffee 42:01
  5. Producer Toolkit: Quality Assurance, Pt 1 - A practical guide to tasting and roasting coffee 30:01
  6. Producer Toolkit: Price, Pt 2 - Discovering the true value of coffee 48:33
  7. Producer Toolkit: Price, Pt 1 - How the commodity 'C' market works 41:12
  8. Producer Toolkit: Marketing & Sales, Pt 2 - Navigating trade shows 43:21
  9. Producer Toolkit: Marketing & Sales, Pt 1 - The power of story 37:09
  10. Producer Toolkit: Fermentation, Pt 3 - Is using yeast cheating? And who decides? 32:32
  11. Producer Toolkit: Fermentation, Pt 2 - The case for avoiding exciting fermentations 35:50
  12. Producer Toolkit: Fermentation, Pt 1 - Nature's lottery and coffee's 3,000-year lag 22:32
  13. Producer Toolkit: Processing, Pt 3 - Critical instruments and poisoned rivers 28:28
  14. Producer Toolkit: Processing, Pt 2 - Drying mistakes that ruin coffee quality 30:40
  15. Producer Toolkit: Processing, Pt 1 - Coffee rockstars and picking’s brutal economics 41:46
  16. Producer Toolkit: Farming, Pt 3 - Starved soils and vanishing labour 44:33
  17. Producer Toolkit: Farming, Pt 2 - Water crisis, risky genetics and cash flow crunch 35:05
  18. Producer Toolkit: Farming, Pt 1 - Low harvests and profit blind spots 25:45
  19. Introducing: The Coffee Producer Toolkit 17:03
  20. History: Guatemala’s Inconvenient Truth, Pt 2 28:45
  21. History: Guatemala’s Inconvenient Truth, Pt 1 43:51
  22. History: Surrogates - Anything but the coffee 46:26
  23. History: Ethiopia’s wild coffee forests 48:40
  24. History: Hamburg and Europe’s coffee trade 50:12
  25. Introducing: Series Three of A History of Coffee 3:00
  26. Science: Coffee Quality, Pt 3 - When the “quality” myth hits the farm 30:00
  27. Science: Coffee Quality, Pt 2 - How “quality” became a myth 25:34
  28. Science: Coffee Quality, Pt 1 - The birth of specialty coffee flavours 23:30
  29. Science: How specialty coffee woke up to water’s role in flavour 25:39
  30. Science: Why prehistoric rock ruins coffee 38:41
  31. Science: Water, Pt 2 - How to measure and treat it 43:17
  32. Science: Water, Pt 1 - Alkalinity, hardness and why it matters 26:21
  33. Science: Farm to port - why specialty costs more 54:19
  34. Science: Why one Colombian farmer chose specialty, and the other walked away 46:46
  35. Science: The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, Pt 2 39:02
  36. Science: The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, Pt 1 29:09
  37. Science: How to roast more coffee, faster! 52:24
  38. Science: The chemistry of coffee roasting 47:43
  39. Science: Fruit juice or creamy almonds? Your guide to controlling cold brew flavors 46:40
  40. Science: Hot vs Cold - The science behind temperature and taste 45:15
  41. Introducing: Season 3 of The Science of Coffee 2:03
  42. Science: How grinders work deep inside 47:23
  43. Science: Protecting your coffee’s flavours 49:41
  44. Science: How to think like a scientist 55:14
  45. Science: How to brew coffee like a scientist 46:21
  46. Science: Why don’t we see more organic coffee farms? 41:22
  47. Science: The magic of soil 38:48
  48. Science: Roasting made easy 46:21
  49. Science: How roasting transforms coffee beans 37:41
  50. Science: Do you and I taste the same flavours? 39:19