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January 04, 2016 Cup North 2015: "The View of a Sommelier" | Laurent Richet
For Tamper Tantrum, 2015 was all about honing all of the really
interesting and successful things we’d done in the past—back when TT was a side
project—and making it stronger
and better as we grew into a stand-alone venture. Nowhere is this more
visible than 2015’s event in partnership with Cup North, where we brought some
new things to the table (*cough*, coffee throwing) as well as reprising some older
ideas that really struck a chord in previous years.
Many of us openly acknowledge, in a way that is ironically true to
form, that our community often functions as a bit of an echo chamber. In the
interest of bringing new ideas to the table, we returned to an old goal of ours
from way back in 2012—to include, where possible, one speaker from a different
industry that had a some overlap with our own. It was with great pleasure and
excitement that we were able to bring Master Sommelier and Crew Cup recipient, Laurent Richet of Restaurant Sat Bains with
Rooms to speak at 2015’s Cup North event.
Whilst there are disagreements as to whether or not it is a worthwhile
exercise to emulate other industries exactly*, there are definitely some
questions to be asked and answered when looking at the comparative success of
the wine industry in raising awareness of their product with the average
consumer. In his talk, Laurent lays the groundwork for a better understanding
of the similarities and differences between the wine and coffee industries, explains
the structure of wine’s sensory- and service-based accreditations, and explains
the framework sommeliers use to taste and evaluate wine before offering some
thoughts on what we, as coffee professionals, can do to achieve better consumer
awareness.
*See Mat
North’s 2015 Cup North talk for a strong argument against employing other
industries’ paradigms.
--
Growing up in the
Loire Valley, Laurent Richet attended the catering college in Saumur where he
passed his Sommelier exam. After finishing his exams, Richet went on to work at
some prestigious hotels including ‘La
Reserve de Beaulieu’ in Beaulieu sur Mer, ‘The
Hotel de Paris’ in Monaco, ‘Celtic
Manor Resort’ in South Wales, ‘The
Breakers Resort’ in Florida, USA, ‘Hotel TerraVina’ in the New Forest
and now Restaurant Sat Bains
with rooms in Nottingham.
During his career,
Laurent has had the pleasure of working with incredibly talented and
knowledgeable people who have motivated him in wanting to be the best he can
be. All of his hard work paid off in 2010 when he won the Gastronomy Team of
the Year competition and 4 years after starting the Master Sommelier, passed
its final level, also gaining the Crew Cup.
58 min
January 04, 2016 Cup North 2015: “The View of a Sommelier” | Laurent Richet
For Tamper Tantrum, 2015 was all about honing all of the really
interesting and successful things we’d done in the past—back when TT was a side
project—and making it stronger
and better as we grew into a stand-alone venture. Nowhere is this more
visible than 2015’s event in partnership with Cup North, where we brought some
new things to the table (*cough*, coffee throwing) as well as reprising some older
ideas that really struck a chord in previous years.

Many of us openly acknowledge, in a way that is ironically true to
form, that our community often functions as a bit of an echo chamber. In the
interest of bringing new ideas to the table, we returned to an old goal of ours
from way back in 2012—to include, where possible, one speaker from a different
industry that had a some overlap with our own. It was with great pleasure and
excitement that we were able to bring Master Sommelier and Crew Cup recipient, Laurent Richet of Restaurant Sat Bains with
Rooms to speak at 2015’s Cup North event.

Whilst there are disagreements as to whether or not it is a worthwhile
exercise to emulate other industries exactly*, there are definitely some
questions to be asked and answered when looking at the comparative success of
the wine industry in raising awareness of their product with the average
consumer. In his talk, Laurent lays the groundwork for a better understanding
of the similarities and differences between the wine and coffee industries, explains
the structure of wine’s sensory- and service-based accreditations, and explains
the framework sommeliers use to taste and evaluate wine before offering some
thoughts on what we, as coffee professionals, can do to achieve better consumer
awareness.

*See Mat
North’s 2015 Cup North talk for a strong argument against employing other
industries’ paradigms.

--

Growing up in the
Loire Valley, Laurent Richet attended the catering college in Saumur where he
passed his Sommelier exam. After finishing his exams, Richet went on to work at
some prestigious hotels including ‘La
Reserve de Beaulieu’ in Beaulieu sur Mer, ‘The
Hotel de Paris’ in Monaco, ‘Celtic
Manor Resort’ in South Wales, ‘The
Breakers Resort’ in Florida, USA, ‘Hotel TerraVina’ in the New Forest
and now Restaurant Sat Bains
with rooms in Nottingham.

During his career,
Laurent has had the pleasure of working with incredibly talented and
knowledgeable people who have motivated him in wanting to be the best he can
be. All of his hard work paid off in 2010 when he won the Gastronomy Team of
the Year competition and 4 years after starting the Master Sommelier, passed
its final level, also gaining the Crew Cup.
58 min
December 28, 2015 Episode the 44th
Well, now. The similarities are astounding: clocking in at just over
one hour and thirty minutes, the return of the (anti-)hero, adoration for a
much-loved mentor, a feisty rebellion, a logical robot that inspires both love
and hate… Yup, Episode 44 is none other than “Return of the Cho”. It also
happens to be the 2015 Tampies!
This week, Colin invites first guest of this year’s podcast reboot,
Nick Cho of Wrecking Ball Coffee
in San Francisco, back up to the mic to talk about all things 2015 and to help
identify those who are taking active steps to move our industry from the realm
of “specialty coffee” to that of “progressive coffee”, for better or worse. Join
them as they romp through tangential systems of thought, including: mergers and
acquisitions, cultural differences, the current state of coffee, the barista
power shift, and the usefulness of innovation. Also covered: the-incident-which-shall-not-be-named,
the state of the WBC, accidental and/or intentional waggling, the proliferation
of the talk platform, gender imbalance, Geoff Watts vs. Peter G, James Hoffmann’s
hair, and more.
1 hr 41 min
December 21, 2015 CoLab: Paris: "Ensuring Coffee's Future" | Klaus Thomsen (The Coffee Collective)
This week, as a special Christmas treat, we are jumping
the gun a little bit and sharing an incredible call to action from The Coffee Collective’s Klaus Thomsen
from CoLab: Paris. We’re sharing
this now for two reasons: (1) we’re hoping that with the holiday break, you’ll
have the time to watch it from start to finish in one go and (2) this time of
year is all about reflecting on the past year and planning for the future. We’re
sincerely hoping that you’ll take Klaus’ message into account when you’re
making those New Year’s resolutions.
We’ve made absolutely no secret that we’ve been asking
Klaus to come and speak at a Tamper Tantrum since its very inception, and we
think it has been worth the wait to get him up on stage—this presentation
highlights one of less-talked about challenges facing the continued production
of quality coffee and offers some solutions as to how we can take strong steps
to improve our collective future.
--
Klaus Thomsen first
picked up a portafilter in 2001 in London. Shortly after returning home to
Denmark, Klaus won the Danish Barista Championship in both 2004 (placing
3rd in the 2004 WBC) and 2006, when he went on to win the World Barista
Championship.
In 2007, he joined
with Peter N. Dupont, Casper E. Rasmussen, and Linus Törsäter to open The
Coffee Collective. Now, as both Co-Owner and Director of Sales, Marketing,
and Barista Education, Klaus helps to grow the team
of/with 30 baristas working at The Coffee Collective’s three shops
(Jaegersborggade, Torvehallerne, and Godthåbsvej). To follow along with
all of the cool things happening at The Coffee Collective, check out their instagram, facebook, or website.
34 min
December 21, 2015 CoLab: Paris: “Ensuring Coffee’s Future” | Klaus Thomsen (The Coffee Collective)
This week, as a special Christmas treat, we are jumping
the gun a little bit and sharing an incredible call to action from The Coffee Collective’s Klaus Thomsen
from CoLab: Paris. We’re sharing
this now for two reasons: (1) we’re hoping that with the holiday break, you’ll
have the time to watch it from start to finish in one go and (2) this time of
year is all about reflecting on the past year and planning for the future. We’re
sincerely hoping that you’ll take Klaus’ message into account when you’re
making those New Year’s resolutions.

We’ve made absolutely no secret that we’ve been asking
Klaus to come and speak at a Tamper Tantrum since its very inception, and we
think it has been worth the wait to get him up on stage—this presentation
highlights one of less-talked about challenges facing the continued production
of quality coffee and offers some solutions as to how we can take strong steps
to improve our collective future.

--

Klaus Thomsen first
picked up a portafilter in 2001 in London. Shortly after returning home to
Denmark, Klaus won the Danish Barista Championship in both 2004 (placing
3rd in the 2004 WBC) and 2006, when he went on to win the World Barista
Championship.

In 2007, he joined
with Peter N. Dupont, Casper E. Rasmussen, and Linus Törsäter to open The
Coffee Collective. Now, as both Co-Owner and Director of Sales, Marketing,
and Barista Education, Klaus helps to grow the team
of/with 30 baristas working at The Coffee Collective’s three shops
(Jaegersborggade, Torvehallerne, and Godthåbsvej). To follow along with
all of the cool things happening at The Coffee Collective, check out their instagram, facebook, or website.
34 min
December 14, 2015 Episode the 43rd
From his initial plan to move to France and cook—despite not really
having extensive experience in the kitchen or even a food blog—Tim Williams has
ended up on a remarkable career path in coffee. So remarkable, in fact, that
one could almost argue that Tim is the “Forrest Gump” of coffee, someone who
appears at seminal moments in specialty coffee history: Flat White in 2006,
Intelligentsia Venice in 2009, Penny University in 2010… the list goes on.
We managed to catch Tim for No. 43 quite literally right before he leaves London to
return to Australia for a new chapter in his coffee life. Using Tim’s
experience as a structure within which to explore important ideas, Colin and
Tim chat about on working environments, service, management, traditions, and
what it means to be out of your depth. Also covered: how some of our current
messaging lends itself to an awful, ambiguous grey area between what we want
the customer to do and what they’re technically allowed to do, why owning a
coffee shop is really just parenting on a different level, Tim Varney’s pining,
and skeletons in Square Mile’s closet.
Follow along with Tim’s newest chapter on his website, instagram, or twitter.

1 hr 31 min
December 07, 2015 Cup North 2015: "The 3rd Wave Has Stagnated" | Mat North
Unless you’re located in the UK
or happen to be a fan of beautifully printed tiny books (Coffee - A Modern Field Guide), chances are you’re not super familiar with the very
clever man that is Mat North, despite his extensive background in all things
coffee.
After over a decade in coffee, Mat
has experience within the full gamut of the “brown” side of the industry: he’s
worked in both specialty shops and chains as well as consumables and
engineering. Two years ago, Mat opened Full Court Press, a small specialist
multi-roaster coffee shop in the heart of Bristol, known for its excellent
customer service. His team’s ability to articulate their extensive knowledge in
an approachable way that has ensured Full Court Press not only serves
exceptional coffee, but has sparked an interest in specialty coffee among their
customers.
Mat’s Cup North talk is a short
and sweet look at the importance of context and feedback, on both sides of the
counter, in not only growing consumers interest in specialty coffee, but in our
own work. Mat gets meta, referencing recent statements and conversations
dominating the coffee twittersphere, and demonstrates a beautifully crafted
baseball metaphor as to how best we can “get out of the umpire’s way”.
---
Want to hear more? Mat references talks by James Hoffmann
(Asia 2014) and Brian
Jones (Asia 2014). Cosimo Libardo, another clever coffee guy that Mat
references, gave
a talk at our first-ever Tamper Tantrum.
23 min
December 07, 2015 Cup North 2015: “The 3rd Wave Has Stagnated” | Mat North
Unless you’re located in the UK
or happen to be a fan of beautifully printed tiny books (Coffee - A Modern Field Guide), chances are you’re not super familiar with the very
clever man that is Mat North, despite his extensive background in all things
coffee.

After over a decade in coffee, Mat
has experience within the full gamut of the “brown” side of the industry: he’s
worked in both specialty shops and chains as well as consumables and
engineering. Two years ago, Mat opened Full Court Press, a small specialist
multi-roaster coffee shop in the heart of Bristol, known for its excellent
customer service. His team’s ability to articulate their extensive knowledge in
an approachable way that has ensured Full Court Press not only serves
exceptional coffee, but has sparked an interest in specialty coffee among their
customers.

Mat’s Cup North talk is a short
and sweet look at the importance of context and feedback, on both sides of the
counter, in not only growing consumers interest in specialty coffee, but in our
own work. Mat gets meta, referencing recent statements and conversations
dominating the coffee twittersphere, and demonstrates a beautifully crafted
baseball metaphor as to how best we can “get out of the umpire’s way”.

---

Want to hear more? Mat references talks by James Hoffmann
(Asia 2014) and Brian
Jones (Asia 2014). Cosimo Libardo, another clever coffee guy that Mat
references, gave
a talk at our first-ever Tamper Tantrum.
23 min
November 30, 2015 Episode the 42nd... and a half
We hate to break it to you: the rumours aren’t true. Despite the fact
that they haven’t been on a podcast together since No. 35, Colin and Steve
haven’t had a massive bust-up—their schedules have just been at odds.
Episode 42.5* sees them finally reunited, as they quickly catch up on
all that happened during their time apart-- New Zealand & Australia, Host, Manchester,
Paris, new purchases—whilst expanding on more important ideas and questions
plaguing the specialty coffee community today. Among these are: expectations vs.
expertise, Colin’s terrible affliction (“resting disinterested face”), how to
accidentally electrocute your employees, napkins vs. brownies, “fuck cupping”, workflow,
and more.
*Don’t mention the war. Or Episode 42.

58 min
November 30, 2015 Episode the 42nd… and a half
We hate to break it to you: the rumours aren’t true. Despite the fact
that they haven’t been on a podcast together since No. 35, Colin and Steve
haven’t had a massive bust-up—their schedules have just been at odds.

Episode 42.5* sees them finally reunited, as they quickly catch up on
all that happened during their time apart-- New Zealand & Australia, Host, Manchester,
Paris, new purchases—whilst expanding on more important ideas and questions
plaguing the specialty coffee community today. Among these are: expectations vs.
expertise, Colin’s terrible affliction (“resting disinterested face”), how to
accidentally electrocute your employees, napkins vs. brownies, “fuck cupping”, workflow,
and more.

*Don’t mention the war. Or Episode 42.

58 min

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