For this week’s episode, I’m sitting down with Will Woodhouse Banks - a seasoned coffee competitor and an all-around lovely person.

Will is also the host of the podcast ‘Hello Judges’ - a deeply informative forum where Will interviews many of the top coffee competitors from around the world. I’m an avid listener of the Hello Judges programme and was thrilled to be able to speak to Will.

This week - like every week - we cover a huge range of topics from SCA competitions, Pizza Hut, the UK coffee community, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Will's vintage Fender Jaguar.

Links:

• Podcasts mentioned: The Bald and the Beautiful With Trixie & Katya + Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
• The iconic Taylors of Harrogate
• Atkinsons Coffee Roasters
• El Placer Coffee Farms
• The funky fruit bomb that is Hooch by Newground Coffee in Oxford

For our first episode, I’m speaking with Alix Walper - a fellow MFer who’s based in the US.

She was over visiting the team in London and I kinda cornered her as I wanted to kick off this podcast with someone familiar. 

• The coffee Alix shared as her favourite was from Proud Mary and was their natural Costa Rican from Villa Sarchi
• Alix mentions the film 'Perfect Days' - which is by Wim Wenders and not Jim Jarmusch as Bryan thought...
• ...and this is Mr Soapy Soap