We might have gone meta—this week on the podcast, Colin is joined by none other than Tamper Tantrum’s Wilson, Jenn Rugolo. Podcast No. 37 is features fond reminiscence of the early days at 3FE and Tamper Tantrum, how we misuse numbers, the importance of play in learning, and an extended meditation on the supposed fourth wave and how it might appear.

Also covered: how much we love Peter G, when arguments on the internet are only about winning, Colin’s inability to remember things, the need for a service-led design in coffee qualifications, and the difference in the ways we show empathy and compassion behind bar.

Joanna Alm is definitely a name you should know if you

Joanna's talk, "Espresso: Letting the origin speak

We've gone all out for solubility! This week, Steve visits Jem Challender of Prufrock Coffee for a face-to-face chat about Prufrock's "test roast solubility quality control protocol", which has sparked much conversation and debate about how science and sensory sit together in coffee.

In addition to tackling some difficult questions about where responsibility lies (with baristas? with roasters?), Steve and Jem also discuss the early days of Monmouth, the Prufrock basement piano, and Prufrock's seedy beginnings alongside a shop specialising in "dignified erotica."

This week, Steve & Col kick back on their respective couches at

Also covered: sore thighs, paella pans, exciting plant stock producing

Check out photos from Colin’s bike ride and the Big Grill shenanigans

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CoLab: Prague saw the return of the extended Q&A session to the

This week’s video is the morning panel from CoLab: Prague with Chahan

This week, Steve and Colin return to an old,

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We’re willing to admit here at TTHQ that we knew CoLab:

Tibor’s talk is refreshingly candid and insanely useful to

Curious about Espresso Embassy? You can find out more about Tibor’s shop here. 

Our second speaker at the Barista Guild of Europe’s CoLab event is a familiar face to those on the competition circuit: Erna Tosberg, a barista and trainer working for roestbar Munster, represented Germany at the 2014 WBC. A passionate advocate for coffee education, she was also involved in the first-ever Barista Camp (Athens, 2014) as an AST and is responsible for Kaffeschule Munster, a coffee school associated with roestbar: “because the more people know about coffee as a product, the more they will appreciate high-quality coffee.”

In her talk, Erna poses a question that frequently crops up in our community: do we need barista competitions? Walking the audience through her perspective both as a competitor and as a trainer, Erna thoughtfully explores the positives and negatives of our current competition platform and lands on a very firm answer.

You can keep up with all of Erna’s work with roestbar here and her work with kaffeschule munster here.