Coffee 101

In this episode, Kenneth sits down with Katie and Dylan Morse of Tinker Coffee in Indianapolis to look at 10 common coffee myths. Between them they blow most of them out of the water, explaining where these misconceptions came from and why they are wrong. This is the first of two episodes on this fascinating subject.
Here are some takeaways and a list of some of the questions they provide answers for. You will also learn something surprising about Kenneth´s coffee-drinking habits and how he and Dylan can tell that one of their customers is pregnant.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Does darker coffee contain more caffeine? – You´ll be surprised by the answer.
• Will coffee sober you up? Will it keep you awake?
• Caffeine blocks adenosine which does help you to feel more energized.
• Is coffee good for pregnant women?
• How much caffeine is really in decaf coffee?
• Who really discovered coffee?
• Should you put coffee in the fridge or freezer? 
• Coffee does not have to be super fresh. Sometimes a bit of aging brings out interesting taste notes.
• Can coffee dehydrate you?
• Does coffee make you more alert – keep your brain cogs turning?
• Coffee really is good for your health. Why is discussed in the episode.
• …. And more.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It's calorie-free. It's sugar-free. It's coffee. ´

‘I think it'll make you more alert and also drunk.’

‘I'm pretty caffeine sensitive.’

GUEST RESOURCES

Website Tinker Coffee – https://www.tinkercoffee.com/

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tinkercoffee/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TinkerCoffee/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/tinkercoffeeco

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/

You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.

At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/

Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee

ABOUT THE HOST

As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.

“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

Podcast Description
Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you!  Episode 1 is all about coffee's journey from seed to shelf.

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/

In this episode, Kenneth sits down with Stefan Tribble to discuss the best ways to store your coffee. They explain how light, heat, moisture, and oxygen begin to break down coffee beans.

Listen to this episode to find out whether you should store your coffee beans on the counter, in the fridge or in the freezer. As well as to learn what type of container will keep your coffee at its freshest for the longest. They also explain how to tell whether the coffee you are buying is fresh, including what the bloom is and how it helps you to establish how fresh your coffee is.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Oxygen is good for us but bad for coffee beans! Exposure to it causes oxidation, which is a bit like rust.
• Some storage canisters enable you to remove most all of the oxygen.
• Choose an opaque, air-tight container with a one-way valve when possible. 
• Coffee beans may look hard and durable, but they are not - they are just as susceptible to organic decay as any other plant product.
• You would not leave a piece of fruit in a hot place, so don´t do that to your beans.
• Light also leads to the beans beginning to break down. This is called photodegradation.
• While beans always stay fresher than ground coffee.
• Buying fresh coffee is an essential first step. In the episode, Stefan and Kenneth explain how to ensure that you do this.

BEST MOMENTS

‘If it's a good quality bag, make sure you're sealing it in the bag that you purchase it. Make sure that it's got a one-way valve on it. ´

‘Also be careful of temperature fluctuations because that can lead to condensation.’

‘Photodegradation (light exposure) leads to a loss in aroma and flavor.’

‘Ground coffee is going to degrade way quicker than the whole bean and it has to do with surface area.’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/

You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.

At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/

Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee

ABOUT THE HOST

As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.

“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

CONTACT METHOD

Want to reach Kenneth? Have questions, show ideas, or want to just let us know you’re enjoying the show? The best way is to leave us a great review and put your thoughts in the comment section - Kenneth reads all of them! The second-best way is through DM on social media.

Podcast Description

Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you! Season 1 is all about coffee’s journey from seed to shelf. 

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/

In this episode, Kenneth sits down with Matt McLaughlin of Starved Rock Coffee Company to talk about the cost of good quality coffee. Their discussion provides “behind the scenes” insight into what it takes to source the best beans from sustainable sources. Then roast them in a way that keeps as much goodness as possible in the product and do so consistently, so the customer always enjoys the taste they are expecting.
They also share low-cost ways to get started with making good quality coffee at home. When you use their approach a great tasting cup costs under $1 to make!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Right now, the price of good coffee is lower than it should be.
• Some grocery stores are charging less per Ib than specialty coffee producers are paying for the green beans they buy.
• Growing and processing high-quality beans simply costs the farmer more.
• Specialty coffee tends to be far fresher than that available from commercial producers.
• You can make fantastic-tasting coffee at home for less than a dollar. Matt and Kenneth explain how in the podcast.
• If farmers can find uses for some of their waste products e.g., the mucilage, prices will not have to rise. There are several promising ideas being explored right now.

BEST MOMENTS
‘Why does it (coffee) cost what it does? And is it on the opposite end a steal, and people really just don't know it?!'
‘Shipping costs right now are the highest they've ever been… the cost of propane to roast with is very high.’

EPISODE RESOURCES
Kenneth interviews Professor William Ristenpart, who is the director of The UC Davis Coffee Center

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/engineering-a-better-cup-of-coffee/id1616624229?i=1000578688324

GUEST RESOURCES
Website / https://starvedrockcoffeecompany.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/starvedrockcoffeecompany/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/rock_starved

VALUABLE RESOURCES
Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/
You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.
At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores of 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee. 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/
Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee

ABOUT THE HOST
As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.
“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

Podcast Description
Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you!  Season 1 is all about coffee's journey from seed to shelf!

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/

In this episode, Kenneth sits down with Katie to continue to talk about the health benefits of coffee. This time the focus is on making coffee in a way that ensures that you get the maximum benefit from each and every cup.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If coffee smells a little stale or the aroma is weak, the chances are it is not that fresh.
• Look for a roasted-on date. That is the best way to tell how fresh the coffee really is.
• Lighter roast coffee contains more antioxidants, so is generally healthier.
• For drip coffee, a 16/18 to 1 ratio of water to coffee is about right.
• Buy whole beans when you can, they degrade slower than ground coffee.
• The water you use is important, it makes up 91 to 95% of your cup.
• When you make coffee at home make sure it is around 195 to 205 Fahrenheit.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Usually, the cups that taste the best black are the healthiest for you. ´

‘If you're in a coffee shop, look and see if they are using a scoop. Are they using a scale when they're weighing out the beans, because that can make a difference in the quality.’

‘The higher the elevation, the denser the bean, and the higher the quality of coffee.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Umble Healthy Coffee Calculator™️ - https://umblecoffee.com/calculator/

Third Wave Water - https://thirdwavewater.com/

SCA certified home brewers - https://sca.coffee/certified-home-brewer

Coffee 101 episode about farm elevation - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-coffee-farm-elevation-impacts-cup-quality/id1616624229?i=1000563766427

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/

You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.

At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/

Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee

ABOUT THE HOST

As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.

“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

CONTACT METHOD

Want to reach Kenneth? Have questions, show ideas, or want to just let us know you’re enjoying the show? The best way is to leave us a great review and put your thoughts in the comment section - Kenneth reads all of them! The second-best way is through DM on social media.

HOW TO LEAVE A REVIEW

Enjoying the show?!  We’d love for you to leave us a review. It helps us grow and educate more people about coffee! Here’s how: if you’re on apple podcasts, ‘search’ for us as if you didn’t already follow the show. When you click on the show, scroll down to ratings and you’ll see where you can leave a rating. Spotify is a little easier - follow and listen to the podcast, and then you can rate and review it.

Podcast Description

Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you!

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/

In this episode, Kenneth sits down again with Katie to continue their discussion about the impact coffee has on health. In this one, the 4th in the health and coffee series, they discuss what coffee companies can, and are doing, to make their product as healthy as possible, 
As well as how you can optimize coffee for health, when you make it at home and how many cups are healthy to drink for most adults. He also introduces the Umble Healthy Coffee Calculator™️, which anyone can benefit from using.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• How coffee is grown, stored, processed, and made has an impact on the level of health benefits it delivers.
• Generally speaking, the higher the elevation, the beans are grown at the higher the antioxidant levels are.
• Bean density has an impact.
• Freshness is important, so always grind just before you make your coffee.
• The darker the roast the more of the beneficial chlorogenic acid has been cooked out.

BEST MOMENTS
‘At Humble Coffee, we tend to select beans that are grown at a higher elevation so that we can get more of those antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. ´
‘The lighter the roast, the higher the antioxidants and anti-inflammatories.’
‘Another thing anyone can do for freshness is to refrigerate or freeze coffee.’

EPISODE RESOURCES
Umble Healthy Coffee Calculator™️ - https://umblecoffee.com/calculator/

VALUABLE RESOURCES
Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/

You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.
At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee. 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/
Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee

ABOUT THE HOST
As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.
“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

CONTACT METHOD
Want to reach Kenneth? Have questions, show ideas, or want to just let us know you’re enjoying the show? The best way is to leave us a great review and put your thoughts in the comment section - Kenneth reads all of them! The second-best way is through DMing on social media.

HOW TO LEAVE A REVIEW
Enjoying the show?!  We’d love for you to leave us a review. It helps us grow and educate more people about coffee! Here’s how: if you’re on apple podcasts, ‘search’ for us as if you didn’t already follow the show. When you click on the show, scroll down to ratings and you’ll see where you can leave a rating. Spotify is a little easier - follow and listen to the podcast, and then you can rate and review it.

Podcast Description
Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you! 

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/

In this episode, Kenneth sits down with Katie to talk more about how coffee can affect your health, both good and bad. For this episode, the focus is on the impact coffee has on your metabolism, heart health, and mental health. Kenneth shares the details of some extensive long-term studies and talks about what he has noticed while working as a physician.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If you suffer from acid reflux, try drinking your coffee black instead of with creamer.
• Coffee increases your metabolic rate, so you burn more calories.
• A study of 208,000 people showed that those who drink coffee are less likely to die prematurely.
• Antioxidants and anti-inflammatories reduce endothelial dysfunction, which is why it is thought that coffee is good for the heart.
• Moderate consumption does not have a long-term effect on blood pressure or arrhythmias.
• Repeated intake of 75mgs of caffeine, every 4 hours, has been shown to improve mood in a sustained way.
• Coffee can be protective against some neurological disorders and cognitive decline.
• If you are an anxious person, the caffeine in coffee can make things worse.
• It is possible to get addicted to coffee.
• The caffeine in coffee is a diuretic.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It´s (coffee is) loaded with antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, and that's the key to prevention of a lot of health issues. ´

‘Drink good coffee so you can drink it black.’

‘It (coffee) improves learning and retention.’

‘Coffee decreases the risk of developing diabetes by 11 to 33%.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Annals of Internal Medicine coffee drinker longevity study - https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7326/M21-2977?journalCode=aim

A roundup of coffee drinker longevity studies - https://www.foxnews.com/health/coffee-may-perk-up-life-expectancy-study-suggests

Framingham heart study and coffee - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28802304/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/

You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.

At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/

Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee

ABOUT THE HOST

As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.

“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

Podcast Description

Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you!  Season 1 is all about coffee's journey from seed to shelf.

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/

In this episode, Kenneth sits down with Katie to discuss the health benefits of coffee. The first of 4 or 5 episodes that will dig deep into the subject. Kenneth is a physician as well as a coffee roasting expert, who has spoken about how coffee drinking impacts people's health at US medical conferences. Today´s episode is primarily about the antioxidants coffee contains and the role these play in reducing the risk of developing several chronic diseases.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• If you drink coffee correctly, it can be healthy and very beneficial for you.
• Coffee contains very high levels of antioxidants and anti-inflammatories.
• Reducing inflammation in the body has been shown to help to manage the risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and Parkinson’s.
• Coffee slows down or stops inflammatory markers.
• There is growing evidence that coffee can play a role in improving your gut microbiome.
• Coffee helps metabolism and improves insulin sensitivity, so it helps to reduce the risk of diabetes.
• Research shows coffee does not increase the risk of breast, ovarian, pancreatic, or kidney cancer or peptic ulcer disease.
• Coffee is also good for bone and liver health.
• The right amount of caffeine is very healthy for you.

BEST MOMENTS
‘Coffee is probably the healthiest thing you can put in your body. ´
‘Coffee has more antioxidants than red wine or green tea.’
‘Coffee alters the gut microbiome…it does this to favor an anti-obese profile.’
‘Looking at all studies, there's about an 11% lower risk of developing type two diabetes per cup per day, compared to non-coffee drinkers.’

EPISODE REFERENCES

2017 Article on Coffee and Health - https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5024

VALUABLE RESOURCES
Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/
You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.
At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee. 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/
Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee
ABOUT THE HOST
As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.
“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”
CONTACT METHOD
Want to reach Kenneth? Have questions, show ideas, or want to just let us know you’re enjoying the show? The best way is to leave us a great review and put your thoughts in the comment section - Kenneth reads all of them! The second-best way is through DMing on social media.
Podcast Description
Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you! Season 1 is all about coffee's journey from seed to shelf.

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/

In this episode, Kenneth sits down with Paul Reed of Savor Brands to talk about coffee packaging. In particular, they discuss the role packaging plays in ensuring that you can always enjoy the perfect cup of coffee. They also discuss the role design and branding plays in how we select products as consumers.

Paul also provides insights into the packaging industry. Including how it works to save roasters time, ensure that the product is kept fresh, that the packet is environmentally sound and much more. Coffee packaging really is a fascinating subject.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• The packaging is what makes the first impression on coffee buyers.
• How coffee is packaged tells consumers a lot about the company that produces it.
• Often, there is a connection between how good the packaging looks and the quality of the coffee.
• Choosing the wrong type of packaging can harm productivity.
• Sensory (your senses) plays a surprisingly crucial role in the design of a coffee bag. Paul explains how in the episode.
• The one-way valve is there to help preserve the coffee.
• Other products can be made out of coffee bags.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Your first impression of a coffee is the packaging. So, it´s important. ´

‘How you represent your product is how people perceive your company.’

‘The packaging has to meet the speciality or quality standards that you ask of everybody earlier in the chain.’

‘Packaging is a reflection of the quality of the coffee.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

Savor Brands - https://www.savorbrands.com/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/

You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.

At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/

Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee

ABOUT THE HOST

As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.

“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

CONTACT METHOD

Want to reach Kenneth? Have questions, show ideas, or want to just let us know you’re enjoying the show? The best way is to leave us a great review and put your thoughts in the comment section - Kenneth reads all of them! The second-best way is through DM on social media.

Podcast Description

Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you! Season 1 is all about coffee’s journey from seed to shelf!

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/

In this episode, Kenneth and Stefan Tribble compare single origin coffee to blended coffee. They explain what both terms mean. Then, talk through the differences between them. They also discuss the pros and cons of each option.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• There is a place for both blended and single origin coffee in most people's lives.
• Blending coffee enables you to balance out sweetness, acidity, and other elements to produce a more predictable cup.
• You can blend before or after the roast. The pros and cons of both approaches are discussed, in detail.
• The darker beans are roasted, the closer they come to each other taste-wise, regardless of the single origin bean used.
• Single origins may not mean all of the beans come from the same farm.
• At the end of the day, if the coffee tastes good to you it doesn't really matter if it is blended or single origin.

BEST MOMENTS
‘Single origins can have a lot of uniqueness to them. ´
‘Single origins can be unpredictable… especially if you are trying to have a consistent product across multiple growing seasons.’
‘Most origins have one harvest season.’

VALUABLE RESOURCES
Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/
You’re disciplined and high achieving. You never settle. Shouldn’t the fuel that helps you reach your goals be held to those same standards? Instead of a crash-inducing cup of jo, you need coffee with optimal antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. A coffee so good that you can drink it black.
At Umble Coffee, we only roast specialty-grade arabica coffee from around the world with cupping scores 84 and above. Don’t sabotage yourself in pursuing your goals - drink coffee that tastes better and is better for you. No crash, great taste, and better long-term health benefits. That’s Umble Coffee. 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umblecoffee/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/umblecoffee/
Twitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/umblecoffee

ABOUT THE HOST
As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.
“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

CONTACT METHOD
Want to reach Kenneth? Have questions, show ideas, or want to just let us know you’re enjoying the show? The best way is to leave us a great review and put your thoughts in the comment section - Kenneth reads all of them! The second-best way is through DM on social media.

Podcast Description
Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you! Season 1 is all about coffee's journey from seed to shelf.

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In this episode, Kenneth sits down with Jeremy Moore of Bonlife Coffee in Cleveland, TN to discuss coffee tasting notes. In particular the flavor wheel. They explain what it is and how it is used in a way that anyone can understand. 

They also talk about some of the other tools they use including the sensory lexicon. Jeremy also shares details of how Bonlife Coffee has evolved and found ways to discover the best coffees you can buy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The original flavor wheel, which was produced in 1995, had to be updated to keep pace with changes in the way coffee was being roasted.
• The new wheel is more scientifically based and considers how everyday coffee drinkers perceive taste.
• Initially, the core flavors are identified, which are in the middle of the wheel.
• Coffee tasting also involves smelling the coffee to pick up the fragrance and aroma, which feeds into the taster’s assessment of what flavors are present.
• In the same way that sommeliers do for wine, coffee tasters have to constantly practice before they can identify different flavor notes and assess the coffee properly.
• There are food items coffee tasters can sample to improve their understanding of what each section of the flavor wheel should taste like.
• Some tasters use both Counter Culture's and the SCA's flavor wheel together.
• On the wheel, the flavor notes are quantifiably related to each other. How is explained in the podcast.

BEST MOMENTS
‘When we are talking about flavor, we´re not just talking about the taste…. ´
‘The more you can pick out some of those individual scents, the more you are likely to be dealing with a really exceptional coffee.’
‘Process is becoming a very big part of what you’re tasting. Especially in the most unique and differentiated coffees.’

GUEST RESOURCES
GUEST - Jeremy Moore of Bonlife Coffee in Cleveland, TN - https://www.bonlifecoffee.com/

EPISODE RESOURCES
SCA Coffee Flavor Wheel - https://atlanticspecialtycoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/SCA_TasterWheel_English_8.5x11.pdf

Counter Culture Flavor Wheel - https://counterculturecoffee.com/learn/resource-center/coffee-tasters-flavor-wheel

World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon - https://worldcoffeeresearch.org/resources/sensory-lexicon

VALUABLE RESOURCES
Award-winning single-origin specialty coffee: https://umblecoffee.com/

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ABOUT THE HOST
As a coffee lover, physician, chemical engineer, serial entrepreneur, competitive runner, writer, and family man, Kenneth knows what it’s like to push yourself to achieve goals very few accomplish. He’s one of the best specialty coffee roasters in the United States as he’s a multi-year US Coffee Roasters’ Competition Finalist. He created Umble Coffee Co with the belief that, if sourced and roasted right, coffee can taste phenomenal and be good for you.

“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee.”

Podcast Description
Coffee 101 is an educational show on all things coffee. The host, Kenneth Thomas, starts with the most basic questions about coffee and builds your knowledge from there. If you love coffee, are curious about coffee, or you’re a business just looking for a resource to train your team, Coffee 101 is without question the show for you!  Season 1 is all about coffee's journey from seed to shelf!

BUY COFFEE!: https://umblecoffee.com/