Coffee Cafe

What happens when you combine a café with a "Melrose Ave" style menu and a "Downtown LA" vibe, along with one-of-a-kind coffee and a rad bike shop? You get Spoke Bicycle Café in Elysian Valley (aka Frogtown). Rich Latronica and Laurie Winston are on the show to tell us how they started Spoke with a foldout table and an Aeropress and turned it into an incredible café in an amazing location (and did we mention there's a bike shop?!).

Plus, they are the only coffee shop that offers TRYSTERO COFFEE, one of LA's top roasters that until recently, was roasted from owner/roaster Greg Thomas' garage. There's a reason they call him a "coffee wizard".

And we also take a few minutes to talk about our long week. Myles buries his son under the groceries. Jason talks about a few "firsts", including a close call by some bold birds!

Spoke is right on the LA River bike path, and you can ride, walk or drive there. Whichever you choose, you won't be disappointed. So, grab a cup and join us for a great ride!

SPOKE BICYCLE CAFE

Myles insists we're having a "coffee club smackdown". Jason thinks we're just comparing coffees. You be the judge!

One bean brewed three different ways - will it affect how the coffee tastes? Rebecca Smith, a coffee guru and the wholesale and retail educator from Groundwork Coffee Co. is on the show to guide us through this coffee taste experiment. We're at the Groundwork Historic Train Depot, which is as amazing as it sounds. This location offers many brewing method options, so it's the perfect place for our taste test.

And while we're highly caffeinated, our week was full of surprises. $300 disappears off Myles' desk, but it didn't go far. Good thing, because he needed it for his family ski trip and his boy's lessons, which went downhill fast! Jason's son enters his school's Science Fair and his son faces real NASA JPL scientists. What could possibly go wrong?

Our coffee results will surprise you. So grab a cup and join us. Rebecca will make sure you know a lot more about coffee by the end of this episode!

GROUNDWORK HISTORIC TRAIN DEPOT

It's a specialty coffee shop that fits in your pocket! It's SUDDEN COFFEE - a new type of "instant coffee" that's as good or better than your favorite coffee-shop coffee. JOSH ZLOOF, Founder and CEO joins us on this Espresshow to tell us how he made this coffee-miracle happen. He also tells us how to get 10% off your Sudden Coffee order!

And Jason and Myles tell Josh about their two-day experience starting their mornings with Sudden Coffee (instead of their carefully crafted specialty brewed-coffee!). The instant coffee certainly wasn't anything like what they were expecting!

Plus, Myles celebrates the sudden popularity of his name, and Jason's wife and son have a sudden gaming blowup that sounds more painful than it really is!

Get 10% OFF your Sudden Coffee order! Just listen to this show for the coupon code. You'll be glad you did!

SUDDEN COFFEE

Café de Leche roasts their beans right in their coffee shop - it doesn't get any fresher than that! And the coffee tastes as amazing as it smells! We chat with MATT SCHODORF (co-owner with his wife, Anya). Matt not only roasts all the beans they serve, but he is directly involved in sourcing a lot of the coffee he roasts. When most coffee shops are using similar beans, Café de Leche has truly unique coffees. Plus, he tells us how you can easily find out if you're really drinking great coffee.

And with some incredible coffee to enjoy, Myles and Jason talk about their week: Myles tries to sleep in while all his boys devise a sinister plan to eat a sugary treat (and it almost works!). Jason's son comes up with a plan that requires taking the engine out from the car (the car survived!).

Grab a cup and join us. Matt's tells us how his mother-in-law named their coffee shop "Café de Leche", and how his wife is the "Café", and he's the "Leche"!

CAFE DE LECHE

After a year in podcasting, we look back and pick our favorites coffees, beans, shows and stories. With so many to choose from, it's hard to narrow it down, but somehow, we pull it off! Plus, Myles and Jason talk about their crazy and fun holidays and how Myles delayed this podcast episode (but the story about how it happened is worth being late!). Sit back, grab a cup of coffee (we're drinking Klatch Roasting Brazilian coffee) and join us on our final episode of 2018. 

A little something happened on the way to the coffee shop... Jason got really sick with an upper respiratory infection. So we had to go to PLAN B, and "B" is for Bustello (aka Cuban coffee). And our special guest is an expert Cuban Coffee maker, and that person happens to be one of our podcast's hosts - Jason (he's Cuban!). He tells you his authentic recipe as well as a special bonus tip!

Plus we discuss our Holiday plans. Jason's son has an inkling of what he's getting for Christmas, while Jason does everything to keep it a surprise. Myles is readying himself from a visit from the ghosts of airplane-trips past!

We're brewing Cuban coffee and so can you! Join us.

LINKS

How to make Cuban Coffee (video): http://bit.ly/makecubancoffee

What happens when Jason and Myles use an Aeropress coffee maker for the first time to make the world champion's recipe? They're hoping they can make the Aeropress World Champion (Carolina Ibarra Garay) proud! For this experiment, they're using the Onyx Coffee Lab "FRAMILY" beans, so they're calling in for support from Dylan Siemens, the head trainer at Onyx Coffee Lab and 2017 US Brewers Cup Champion. Can they put it all together to make it happen? And when the coffee is finally brewed, Myles tells us how his kids found themselves playing games with members of a Satanic temple. Jason shares how his son was caught telling an inappropriate joke at school. Join us on our ESPRESSHOW - it’s a more concentrated look at how coffee keeps us sane - lots of pressure and hot water included!

Onyx Coffee Lab - FRAMILY beans / CRAMPUS beans

Aeropress coffee maker

Only a few months ago, Carolina Ibarra Garay got her first AeroPress coffee maker. Then, up against the best in the coffee world, from a field of over 3000 competitors, she was crowned the Aeropress WORLD CHAMPION!

Her inspiring story starts in a tiny town in the coffee belt of Columbia, South America, and after years of rebelling against her family's coffee traditions, she found her own way back to coffee in the U.S.. Now it's her life. Then just a few months ago, she entered her FIRST competition. In the following TWO competitions, she became the United States Champion and then World Champion. Passion fueled her success and now, she's made her mom very proud!

Plus, Carolina shows us how to brew her award winning coffee recipe! Join us for an amazing story and unbelievable coffee!

We're going rogue after a year of podcasts! Myles' wife tells us how to make Armenian coffee that everyone will rave about. We're brewing Bicycle coffee (no bikes required). Myles gives us the top three topics you should never bring up during holiday family gatherings. And all the kids are either missing, taking over family traditions or surprising us in some unusual way. Plus, we take a look at where our podcast has been and the new direction it's headed. Join us for a lot of coffee that was brewed by Myles!

How to make Armenian Coffee pictures:  https://sway.office.com/O3ibxPRfY4f24TaM?ref=Link