Special guest: Zander Nosler, Coffee Equipment Company. Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Back with Jay... live and in the flesh.

Topics covered:

- Reflections on Seattle (NWRBC, Coffee Fest, etc.)

- Upcoming regional barista competition calendar

- O.P.P. (Other Peoples' Podcasts)

- Chris Tacy's "Keeping it Real 2006"

- The La Marzocco GS3

- A P.I.D. primer

- The Barista Guild forum (R.I.P.)

- The SCAA Board... and Nick?!?!

This is a long-ass show... so long only because we've been out for a while. Listen and enjoy.

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Special guest: Greg Scace, developer of the Scace Thermofilter and overall super-consumer-enthusiast.

Topics: alt.coffee, the Thermofilter, P.I.D., GS3, consumers vs. professionals, etc. (not in that order)

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Special guests:

Chris Tacy (malachi), Sarah Allen (Barista Magazine), Brent Fortune (Crema Coffee and Bakery), Jana Oppenheimer (Stumptown), Stephen Vick (Stumptown), Phuong Tran (Zoka/Lava Java), Billy Wilson (Albina Press), Trish Skeie (Zoka)

- Talkin about the Clover

- Catching up with Coffee Fest and NWRBC news

- What is Chris Tacy thinking about today?

- Whining about lost podcasts

- Barista Magazine chit-chat

- Down 'n dirty about barista competitions

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Special guests:

Duane Sorensen, Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Trish Skeie, Zoka Coffee and Tea Company

Topics:

- NWRBC

- About Stumptown

- The Barista Brain Drain

- a bunch of jibba-jabba

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Special guests:

Dan Clay, Director of the Institute of International Agriculture, Michigan State University, and creator of the PEARL Project.

Anne Ottaway, PEARL Project marketing and communications specialist

Peter Giuliano, Director of Coffee, Counter Culture Coffee, Durham, NC

Write your letters to:

Andrew S. Natsios

Administrator

U.S. Agency for International Development

Ronald Reagan Building

1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW

Washington, DC 20523

FAX: 202-216-3455

E-mail: [email protected]

Your Representative (look them up on www.house.gov)

U.S. House of Representatives

(Street address)

Washington, DC (ZIP)

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U.S. Senate

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Call your Representatives and Senators as well!

Feel free to copy us on any emails you send out: [email protected]

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Show highlights:

- Non-coffee talk

- North West Regional Barista Competition's coming up

- Had any good coffee lately?

- The Third Coffee Podcast (not ours, not CoffeeGeek's)

- Latte art for psychics

- "What's Chris Tacy Thinking About Today?" (Scace device, Nordic Cup, more NWRBC hype, wikipedia)

- Crank calls to coffee people

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Podcasting from the Hilton City Center Hotel, Charlotte, NC

Show highlights:

- Ellie Matuzsak, Intelligentsia Coffee, Chicago, IL

- Trish Skeie, Seattle, WA

- Tim Chapdelaine, talks about importing coffee

- Mike McKim, Houston, TX and Espresso Specialists, Seattle, WA, about coffee in Texas

- Geoff Watts, Intelligentsia Coffee, Chicago, IL, about varietals

- David Haddock, Bellissimo Consulting, about the Charlotte Shout.

An AMAZING and JAM-PACKED show, super-sized for your pleasure. This is definitely one that you'll probably listen to more than once, because there's some mind-numbing stuff in this sucker. And in case you were wondering, yes, people were drinking.

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Barista Competition Tutorial

Your hosts: Jay Caragay (two-time USBC competitor, two-time regional barista competition competitor), and Nick Cho (USBC competitor, coach/trainer for regional, USBC, and WBC competitors, USBC certified judge, emcee at regional, USBC and WBC competitions, almost WBC judge certified).

Show highlights:

- News bits: Hurricanes, gas prices, Hines, Caffe Artigiano espresso, "Old Timers' Barista Competition" CANCELLED, CoffeeGeek Podcast vs. Portafilter Podcast.

- A complete, comprehensive, two-hour run-down of the barista competition (WBC/USBC) scoresheets, chock full of tips, secrets, and insights for the competition barista.

Please keep in mind, though we know of no other such endeavor that's attempted to really delve into the specifics of the barista competition scoring criteria, this is all just based on personal observations. Your results may vary.

Also, if you have NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in barista competitions, then I recommend that once we start talking about them, you just stop listening. Don't say we didn't warn ya!

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.

Podcast Eleven

Special guest: Mark Inman, President and Green Buyer, Taylor Maid Farms Organic Coffee and Tea

Podcasting from murky coffee, Arlington, VA... and Las Vegas, NV

Jay's in Vegas! Thank God for cellphones. Quick note: we mention that we're gonna do a call-in to the Roasters' Guild annual retreat... and it never happened. We'll catch up with the roaster-folks later, but we should have explained that but we didn't. Oh well. Good stuff otherwise.

Show highlights:

- Jay in Vegas

- Nick responds to coffee geeks

- call-in with Mark Inman, with discussion about organic farming, possible innovations in coffee production for espresso, etc. Information overload! Great stuff!

- a very special and exclusive and important announcement from Mr. Inman!

Questions? Comments? Hate mail? Email us at [email protected], and we might read your email during the next show.