Tamper Tantrum

We were excited to see former speaker Brian W Jones turn up in the audience of CoLab: Prague, so we nabbed him to have a quick chat about his experience in Prague so far, Supersonic Coffee, and the multi-roaster approach. Also covered: fried cheese, air stream trailers, instagram, and the coffee awesome podcast.

You can watch Brian W Jones' Asia talk here and check out supersonic's instagram feed here.

In this week's podcast, Colin and Steve chat Tim Williams' new role, Bluebottle's decision to wind down their wholesale business, and what might possibly be the biggest coffee-community internet kerfuffle since James Hoffmann killed crema: SCAA's decision to kill the regional competitions in the lead up to the USBC. Also covered: Steve's controversial take on SCAE's World of Coffee in Gothenburg, Cosimo Libardo's sage advice about how improve your business, and the saddest barista photograph ever seen.

Want to follow along with the kerfuffle? Check out the official announcement, the initial Sprudge article, Barista Magazine's blog post, the rebuttal from Sprudge, Nick Cho's blog, Trubaca's blog, James Hoffmann's blog, Heather Perry and Lorenzo's Perkin's comments on Fresh Cup, and the first signs of an SCAA backtrack. (Goodness!)

In this Prague short, Oslo Kaffebar barista Masamichi 'Sami' Kaji talks to Steve about his coffee career--spanning Tokyo, Toronto, London, Oslo, and Berlin--and the differences between these different scenes. Also covered: customers' expectations, limited German vocabulary, and Sami's recommendations for coffee in Berlin in order to understand the relatively young scene there.

Five Elephant | The Barn | Companion Coffee | Oslo Kaffebar

In this Prague short, Oslo Kaffebar barista Masamichi 'Sami' Kaji talks to Steve about his coffee career--spanning Tokyo, Toronto, London, Oslo, and Berlin--and the differences between these different scenes. Also covered: customers' expectations, limited German vocabulary, and Sami's recommendations for coffee in Berlin in order to understand the relatively young scene there.

Five Elephant | The Barn | Companion Coffee | Oslo Kaffebar

You may not know this week's speaker, recorded in Taipei on our 2014 Asia tour, but you should: as one of the main architects of Counter Culture's Direct Trade Certification and the driving force of their annual transparency report, SCAA's Director of Sustainability Kim Elena Ionescu has a wealth of information about all things coffee-buying and sustainability. In her talk, Kim shares some of the story behind Counter Culture's sustainability endeavors, what it means to be a "Sustainability Manager", and how to measure sustainability success.

Even if you aren't even beginning to think about sustainability seriously, Kim's talk is a great exercise in how to adopt new ideas into your business model and measure their success, but after watching her talk, we're pretty sure you'll see a value in starting to measure your sustainability, too. This is an inspiring call for our entire industry to be transparent about the things we do in order to better learn and grow together.

In our second Prague short, co-owner of Prague specialty coffee heavyweight Doubleshot, Jiri 'Tashi' Vondracek, sits down with Steve to chat about the inception of doubleshot and the rapidly-developing Prague coffee scene. Also covered: the London influence, why baristas should come to Prague, and Tashi's coffeeshop recommendations for Prague.

EMA Espresso | Industra Coffee  | Bitcoin Coffee

In our second Prague short, co-owner of Prague specialty coffee heavyweight Doubleshot, Jiri 'Tashi' Vondracek, sits down with Steve to chat about the inception of doubleshot and the rapidly-developing Prague coffee scene. Also covered: the London influence, why baristas should come to Prague, and Tashi's coffeeshop recommendations for Prague.

EMA Espresso | Industra Coffee  | Bitcoin Coffee

Can you claim to really be in specialty coffee if you don't know Matt Perger? The competition wunderkind, creator of the pergtamp, and the creator of the Barista Hustle joins us on episode the thirtieth to talk to us about everything from Melbourne to Malkoenig and mentors to Coffee Masters. Also included in this week's episode: disastrous competition beginnings, all kinds of apologies, when a non-victory is more victorious, fines, and big, new things for the Barista Hustle.

Want to hear more? Matt joined us as a speaker in Vienna (2012) to talk about "Macrophobia" and for the 2014 Asia Tour with a talk titled "Brew Local, Think Global". Want to read more? Subscribe to the Barista Hustle here.

It’s pretty rare that we invite someone back to speak again at Tamper Tantrum, not because the speakers aren’t amazing, but because we want to provide a diverse range of opinions and thoughts from different people across the industry. Every now and then, however, the stars align and we find ourselves with a repeat speaker. In truth, this makes us a little nervous: will they be able to deliver something just as good, if not better, than their original presentation? Will it still be as thought-provoking and inspiring?

 James Hoffmann has spoken at Tamper Tantrum Live twice, co-hosted our Asia Tour, and was a massive part of Episode the 19th, announcing the newly formed Euroguild (Barista Guild of Europe). He had already outdone his Dublin 2011 talk with his Birmingham 2014 talk, but could he do it again?

It is with great pleasure that we present to you his unprecedented THIRD talk for Tamper Tantrum, recorded in Taipei, Taiwan on our Asia tour last year. An annoyingly clever presentation, James speaks here about the importance of telling stories in the coffee industry and how we’re doing it all wrong. And, of course, in honour of his incredible contribution to Tamper Tantrum over the years, we hereby declare today to be #jimsevenday.