Steampunk Coffee - Behind the Beans

Steampunk Coffee - Behind the Beans

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Steampunk Coffee - Behind the Beans episodes

  • Season 2: Episode 6 - The Team Steam Christmas Special

    Join Peter, Toby, Scott and Cameron for a chat about all things Christmassy. What we love best about both hospitality and Christmas is the chance to  indulge in all sorts of interesting, funny and random conversations. Because everything is weird this year, and just getting weirder we decided we would just take it all online. The chat encompasses nut roast, Chippolatas and nativity roles (Jesus had a grandad??) and very little about coffee. Hope you enjoy it anyways...

    This is the last episode for 2020! Next year we will come back with further actual interesting coffee content. 

    Please do follow us if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.   

    You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast  

    Or email [email protected] 

    www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch.  

    🎙This podcast is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day,🎧OG by night.



    44 min
  • Season 2: Episode 5 The coffee supply chain and Bale Mountain with Kamba Coffee
    In this episode Catherine Franks chats with Bruna Costa from Kamba Coffee. Kamba is a fairly new importer who we have worked with since they set up in 2019. In fact Ludwika and Cath met Bruna on a visit to Ethiopia that year where our working relationship began. Our new release Bale Mountain is an interesting and rare example of a vertically integrated supply chain where Israel Degfai, who produced the coffee is also part owner of Kamba and is therefore directly involved at every stage of this coffee's journey to us.  Bruna herself comes from a third generation coffee producing family in Brazil and we have a really interesting chat about how coffee producers are portrayed in marketing, how value can be more fairly distributed throughout the supply chain, and what benefits certification (eg organic, fair-trade) do and don't actually have on producers. This conversation really reinforced to me how important it is to look past labels and images and genuinely respect people working at all points in the coffee supply chain.
    We hope you enjoy this episode! Please do follow us if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.  
    You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast  Or email [email protected] www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch.  🎙This podcast is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day,🎧OG by night.
    45 min
  • Series 2: Episode 4 - Coffee Shop Customers
    This week are are so happy to be joined on the podcast by a couple of our regular customers - Laura Cave and Gregor Milne. These guys kindly agreed to come in for a socially distanced chat about what coffee shops mean to them, the role they play in community and have just a general good quality conversation. This is exactly the sort of conversation that happens day in and day out here at Steampunk and in people's favourite coffee houses across the world. If you want to get a feel of what coffee shops are about and why they are important to so many of us, this is a great episode to join us for.
    We hope you enjoy it! Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.  
    You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast 
    Or email [email protected] www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch. 
    🎙This podcast is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day,🎧OG by night.
    43 min
  • Season 2: Episode 3 - Three Roasters Collaboration with Dear Green and Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters

    This week Catherine Franks is joined by Lisa Lawson from Dear Green and Fiona Grant from Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters. We are three female run coffee businesses who operate in different corners of Scotland. We have collaborated together for the past three years every Christmas to bring the Three Roasters Coffee Gift set which is a set of three coffees roasted from three different regions of the world at our three roasteries. This year's set is available again (in limited quantities) via Dear Green's website www.deargreencoffee.com. It was brilliant catching up with these incredible women. I have such admiration for them and their businesses and love how we are drawn together by our shared ethos of care (for our communities and how we source and roast coffee) into a collaborative relationship rather than a competitive one.  Find out more: Dear Green - www.deargreencoffee.com FB/Instagram @deargreen Glen Lyon - www.glenlyoncoffee.co.uk FB/Instagram @glenlyoncoffee We hope you enjoy this episode. Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too. You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast Or email [email protected] www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch. 🎙This podcast is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day,🎧OG by night.

    39 min
  • Season 2, Episode 2: the Falcon Peru project with Line Cosmidis

    In this episode Rachel Beebe, head roaster at Steampunk, talks with Line Cosmidis from Falcon Coffee. Line is an agronomist who is head of sales at Falcon Specialty. She talks to us about Falcon Peru a project they launched to link smallholder farmers in remote areas of Peru to the specialty market. 

    Steampunk has bought three lots of coffee through the project: La Huaca in 2018, which came from several regional farms, and this year, Freddy Bermeo and Herminio Raimirez. We just finished the last of the coffee from Mr. Raimirez, so hopefully you were lucky enough to try it while it lasted. After our conversation Line messaged to say that two of the farmers they work with have placed in the Peru Cup of Excellence competition. Eli Espinoza placed 8th and Fidel Huancas placed 4th. It’s really exciting for everyone involved with the project and it speaks to the quality of the coffee they’re producing and exporting. We are looking forward to tasting and roasting this Peruvian coffee for years to come. 

    We hope you enjoy this episode. Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too. 

    You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast 

    Or email [email protected] 

    www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch. 

    🎙This podcast is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day,🎧OG by night.

    40 min
  • Season 2, Episode 1: The Cafe - No1 Peebles Road

    Welcome back to the Steampunk Coffee podcast. In the last series we got to know Team Steam a bit better. In Series 2 we are looking outward in slowly expanding circles and will be having conversations with people in different areas of the coffee supply chain who we work with and have gotten to know over the years.  

    First up we are absolutely delighted to welcome Craig Anderson and Ema Perry from No 1 Peebles Road. Their cafe is a busy hub at the heart of mountain biking territory in Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders. We have supplied these guys with coffee since the day we started roasting 8 years ago and love the ethos, vibe, food and literally everything about their cafe. Find out more and reach them directly via Instagram @no1_peebles_road 

    Please follow our podcast if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.  You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast  

    Or email [email protected]  

    www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch.  

    🎙This podcast is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day, 🎧 OG by night.

    40 min
  • Episode 6: Team Steam's everyman Toby
    In this final episode of series 1 Peter Mackie hosts a conversation with Toby Jeffries. If you have been in Steampunk recently you will have no doubt chatted with Toby about how your day is going or your favourite movie. Toby keeps us cheery and the conversation flowing even on the darkest of days and we think he embodies what is great about hospitality in general and coffee shops in particular. Cameron joins in too for a chat that encompasses random thoughts on temperature fluctuations at Steampunk, ideas for a new team uniform and what keeps the heart of hospitality beating. 
    This is one of my favourite episodes to date and is a great one for finishing off season 1 which was all about getting to know Team Steam. We are so lucky to have the most wonderful team here and we hope you have enjoyed getting to know us better during these podcasts. 
    In series 2 we will be continuing the conversation with people who work in different areas of the coffee supply chain and looking more closely at different aspects of our favourite beverage. 
    Please follow our podcast if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too. 
    You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast 
    Or email [email protected] 
    www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch. 
    🎙This podcast is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day, 🎧 OG by night.
    37 min
  • Episode 5: Behind the Espresso machine with Scotty
    In tonight's episode Peter Mackie chats to Steampunk long timer Scott Nicolson about beards, tunes and the perfect flat white. Scotty started working at Steampunk 6 years ago and is a much loved member of the team, a local boy who has progressed through the business from waiter to Head Barista. We hope you enjoy this episode! 
    Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too. 
    You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast Or email [email protected] www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch. 
    🎙This podcast (as always) is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day,🎧recording OG by night.
    31 min
  • Episode 4 - Behind the Roaster with Team Steam (Part 2)
    In this episode Catherine Franks continues the conversation begun last week with Steampunk's Head Roaster Rachel Beebe and Production Roaster Ludwika Kopczynska.  We discuss flavour, favourite coffees ... and the mortuary rumour. We hope you enjoy this episode! 
    Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too. 
    You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast 
    Or email [email protected] 
    www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch. 
    🎙This podcast (as always) is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day,🎧recording OG by night.
    35 min
  • Episode 5 - Chat with Cath
    In this episode Rachel Beebe chats with Steampunk's founder Cath. In this personal chat we discuss her weird career path,  why perfection is not something she takes seriously and how Covid has reshaped Steampunk. We hope you enjoy this episode!
    Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.
    You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast
    www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online coffee, subscriptions, brew gear and sick merch.
    38 min

About Steampunk Coffee - Behind the Beans

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Community, personal interactions and connection are behind all we do at Steampunk Coffee. Join us to chat all things coffee - get to know the team who serve you; the processes involved in making great coffee; and join us for some bigger picture conversations about the coffee supply chain, social justice and how we can all work together to do better.