Tamper Tantrum

Tamper Tantrum

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Tamper Tantrum episodes

  • 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”.


    NOTE: Due to some unfortunate interference with our wireless microphone, Mat's conclusion was horribly muffled. We're in the process of adjusting the audio file as best we can to compensate for the interruption, but in the meantime, we want to share a transcript of Mat's final thought before the Q&A (currently missing), as it's incredibly important:

    If we give them the context, they can enjoy it better. It’s a silly one [the metaphor], but I quite like it. 

    Let’s come back to this, just quickly. We’ve not stalled--we are evolving, maturing as an industry.

    How we deal with this maturation comes from how we communicate: if we communicate properly, with the right feedback, with the right context, we’ll become a mature industry.

    Laurent, who is going to talk later, is involved in wine. We shouldn’t be imitating sommeliers, that’s their context!

    We shouldn’t be imitating bartenders, that’s their context!

    We’ve tried to move too far away from what we knew within the industry from the second wave, we’ve overreacted and we’ve become this new, confused way of looking at coffee.

    We need to be brave enough to find our own style of service and through context, we can help everyone communicate better.  Thank you.

    --

    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. 

    24 min
  • 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”.


    NOTE: Due to some unfortunate interference with our wireless microphone, Mat's conclusion was horribly muffled. We're in the process of adjusting the audio file as best we can to compensate for the interruption, but in the meantime, we want to share a transcript of Mat's final thought before the Q&A (currently missing), as it's incredibly important:

    If we give them the context, they can enjoy it better. It’s a silly one [the metaphor], but I quite like it. 

    Let’s come back to this, just quickly. We’ve not stalled--we are evolving, maturing as an industry.

    How we deal with this maturation comes from how we communicate: if we communicate properly, with the right feedback, with the right context, we’ll become a mature industry.

    Laurent, who is going to talk later, is involved in wine. We shouldn’t be imitating sommeliers, that’s their context!

    We shouldn’t be imitating bartenders, that’s their context!

    We’ve tried to move too far away from what we knew within the industry from the second wave, we’ve overreacted and we’ve become this new, confused way of looking at coffee.

    24 min
  • 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 captivating 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
  • 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 captivating 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
  • Cup North 2015: "Fuck Cupping" | Colin Harmon

    It’s been quite a whirlwind these past two weeks—UK National Coffee Throwing

    Championship, Cup North, and BGE’s CoLab: Paris—but
    after three very successful events, we’re back in the post-editing chair and
    ready to share some of what’s been said.

    First up from Cup North is none other than 3FE’s mad-ideas man, Tamper Tantrum co-founder,

    and all around gentle giant, Colin
    Harmon with his twitter-sourced talk title, “Fuck Cupping.” Described as “an
    exploration of cupping as an appropriate process, and the silly metrics we use
    in coffee shops”, “Fuck Cupping” is an eye-opening look at the cupping
    protocol, its use in shops, and what it means to be innovative in general.

    We don’t really have much to say other than that, really. This is

    Colin’s third talk at a live event and it’s just as much of a mic drop as his
    presentation at the first ever Tamper Tantrum in 2011.  

    43 min
  • Cup North 2015: “Fuck Cupping” | Colin Harmon

    It’s been quite a whirlwind these past two weeks—UK National Coffee Throwing

    Championship, Cup North, and BGE’s CoLab: Paris—but
    after three very successful events, we’re back in the post-editing chair and
    ready to share some of what’s been said.



    First up from Cup North is none other than 3FE’s mad-ideas man, Tamper Tantrum co-founder,

    and all around gentle giant, Colin
    Harmon with his twitter-sourced talk title, “Fuck Cupping.” Described as “an
    exploration of cupping as an appropriate process, and the silly metrics we use
    in coffee shops”, “Fuck Cupping” is an eye-opening look at the cupping
    protocol, its use in shops, and what it means to be innovative in general.



    We don’t really have much to say other than that, really. This is

    Colin’s third talk at a live event and it’s just as much of a mic drop as his
    presentation at the first ever Tamper Tantrum in 2011.  

    43 min
  • Episode the 41st

    On this week’s podcast, we are joined by a long-time listener and one

    of our CoLab:
    Prague speakers: the  CEO of Drop Coffee, Joanna Alm. Episode
    No. 41 (not the 41st) features a recap of all things Cup North, a discussion
    of recent changes at Drop, the Swedish/Nordic specialty coffee scene, and last
    week’s Nordic
    Roasters Forum. Also covered: a new metaphor for coffee roasting, a
    beginners guide to the Swedish language*, the burgeoning European Roaster’s
    Guild, and a few thoughts on why we’ll still be in Paris this week for Barista Guild of Europe’s
    CoLab event.

    *Including the ever-important phrase, “skölpaddan bär en gul hatt.” 


    --

    1 hr 5 min
  • From the catacombs: David Nigel Flynn, "Jus de Chaussette" (2012 Vienna)

    After a successful jaunt up to Manchester for the UK National Coffee

    Throwing Competition and Tamper Tantrum Live at Cup North this weekend, our
    attention has turned fully to Paris. Known for its
    food, wine, and café culture, Paris’ specialty coffee culture has gone on a
    very visible journey from having
    a practically non-existent specialty coffee scene, the
    early development phase, and the
    point at which Paris was recognized, on an international level, as having a
    specialty coffee scene.

    Today’s talk from the catacombs is a truly fascinating one, offering a

    snapshot of the Parisian specialty coffee scene in 2012, right around the time
    it was starting to gain traction. David Nigel Flynn’s talk, “Jus de Chaussette”
    (“Sock Juice”), looks at the French culture of taste and of tradition, why
    specialty coffee is so hard for the French to swallow, and ways in which
    specialty coffee shops can frame the conversation in the way that doesn’t make
    traditionalists defensive. There are some real pearls of wisdom in this talk
    that, despite the fact that it is directly tied to a specific time and place, are
    still incredibly relevant to our discussions of specialty coffee today.

    We’re excited to bring this talk back for two reasons: (1) we’re

    planning on visiting a tonne of shops next week and want to see how much of an
    impact the introduction of “Jus de Chausette” has had on the French specialty
    coffee scene and, (2) it’s making us ask ourselves, in light of recent and
    plentiful conversations about third wave stagnation, how much have we actually
    progressed since 2012? 

    38 min
  • From the catacombs: David Nigel Flynn, “Jus de Chaussette” (2012 Vienna)

    After a successful jaunt up to Manchester for the UK National Coffee
    Throwing Competition and Tamper Tantrum Live at Cup North this weekend, our
    attention has turned fully toParis. Known for its
    food, wine, and café culture, Paris’ specialty coffee culture has gone on a
    very visible journey from having
    a practically non-existent specialty coffee scene, the
    early development phase, and the
    point at which Paris was recognized, on an international level, as having a
    specialty coffee scene.

    Today’s talk from the catacombs is a truly fascinating one, offering a
    snapshot of the Parisian specialty coffee scene in 2012, right around the time
    it was starting to gain traction. David Nigel Flynn’s talk, “Jus de Chaussette”
    (“Sock Juice”), looks at the French culture of taste and of tradition, why
    specialty coffee is so hard for the French to swallow, and ways in which
    specialty coffee shops can frame the conversation in the way that doesn’t make
    traditionalists defensive. There are some real pearls of wisdom in this talk
    that, despite the fact that it is directly tied to a specific time and place, are
    still incredibly relevant to our discussions of specialty coffee today.

    We’re excited to bring this talk back for two reasons: (1) we’re
    planning on visiting a tonne of shops next week and want to see how much of an
    impact the introduction of “Jus de Chausette” has had on the French specialty
    coffee scene and, (2) it’s making us ask ourselves, in light of recent and
    plentiful conversations about third wave stagnation, how much have we actually
    progressed since 2012? 

    38 min
  • Episode the 40th
    This week—in a special Halloween/HasBean Birthday reimagining of No.
    40, complete with the spooky (somewhat) disembodied voice of Jenn—we are joined
    by a guest we’ve been trying to get onto the podcast since April this year: an
    overachiever of the highest degree, holding not one, not two, but three highly-demanding
    coffee jobs—the one and only Roukiat Delrue. 
    Rouki’s experience growing up in a producing country, partnered with her
    positions as Q Services Manager with the Coffee Quality Institute and
    National Bodies Manager for World
    Coffee Events, gives her a completely unique—and extensive—perspective on
    all things coffee.

    Episode 40 covers everything from coffee auctions to colour conflicts

    whilst head-judging and from Anacafe
    to Q updates, with much more in between, as we make the most of our hour with
    the coffee industry’s most beloved “Rouki-pedia”. We also revisit the
    head-judge industrial complex, first discussed in No. 23
    with Nick Cho, as well as the highly-contested “women in coffee” discussion
    (which Steve has promised to give up if someone finally invites him out for breakfast)
    and Steve’s desire for a new cupping form. 

    --

    This podcast has been brought to you through the kind support of Nuova Simonelli--thank you! 

    58 min

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