Zac Smith is a former Aussie Rules player who played for both the Gold Coast Suns and Geelong Cats.

In the final years of his football career, Zac began to fall in love with coffee, and once he retired decided that he wanted to do this for a living after football.

Zac now owns Tallboy Coffee in Queensland Australia, where the weather is pretty much perfect all year round, he sees opportunity to disrupt the cold brew market into the future, particularly in his neck of the woods.

Zac and Kirk discuss what it takes to make a career out of coffee, and just how hard it can be.

A good portion of the episode is also spent touching on Zac's AFL career, what it is like being a professional athlete and who the most vicious competitors are.

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Project Zero 2.0 has opened which has captured attention globally.

There are really only two camps of people on this, those who are open to new ideas and innovation, and those that think the definition of espresso was written in the Magna Carta era.

Joining Kirk is Hany Ezzat, the man responsible for posting a viral reel that has caused many to have a melt down.

Hany is the founder of Ni Wares, a coffee ceramics brand that make specialist cups for coffee brewing.

But what is this point of all this? How is it done? And where will it lead?

Kirk also goes on a Karen rant in a new segment called “What Grinds My Beans!”

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Lucia Solis is a fermentation and coffee processing specialist who is now based in Guatemala. Lucia is also hosts an award winning coffee podcast called 'Making Coffee with Lucia Scolis' which recently won Sprudge Podcast of the year.

Lucia's first line of work was as a wine maker. After studying Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis she worked in California's esteemed Napa Valley.

These days Lucia commits her life to teaching others techniques to process their coffee, urging them to see 'processing as an opportunity to add value.'

In this podcast Kirk asks guide for some of the basics when it comes to coffee processing. Kirk and Lucia unpack key terms, big words and debunk some myths about coffee processing.

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Link to Lucia's website: https://www.luxia.coffee/

Lucia Solis is a fermentation and coffee processing specialist who is now based in Guatemala. Lucia is also hosts an award winning coffee podcast called 'Making Coffee with Lucia Scolis' which recently won Sprudge Podcast of the year.

Lucia's first line of work was as a wine maker. After studying Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis she worked in California's esteemed Napa Valley.

These days Lucia commits her life to teaching others techniques to process their coffee, urging them to see 'processing as an opportunity to add value.'

In this podcast Kirk asks guide for some of the basics when it comes to coffee processing. Kirk and Lucia unpack key terms, big words and debunk some myths about coffee processing.

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Link to Lucia's website: https://www.luxia.coffee/

Christopher Feran is coffees is the author of coffees most detailed and forensic blog.

Chris has many years of experience working as a post harvest and green bean consultant, helping roasters of many different sizes with their sourcing and blend formulation.

Chris also has a brand called Aviary Coffee where he roasts and sells one different coffee monthly, allowing him to develop sutainable partnerships, and roast the coffee really damn well!

In this episode Chris and Kirk talk about sourcing, the Scott Rao wars, Luckin Coffee, SCA, competitions and Chris time at the FBI!

Leave a comment about Kirk's Eevee shirt, it just might make his day!

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Though he would never own up to it, Andrew Kelly is one of the Four Horseman of Melbourne's specialty coffee industry.

Andrew is the Founder of Small Batch Coffee, a seminal Melbourne roastery and Sharesource, which sources coffee that ensures farmers financial sustainability and aims for better outcomes on farm.

The key contention of this podcast is how do we as an industry better communicate to consumers why buying ethically sourced coffee is a good thing. Have we been selling the message wrong? Have we been to prone to lecturing the public instead of having a better discourse?

Kirk and Andrew also discuss why being 'delusional' is very important for a young entrepreneur or anyone wanting to make a change in the world.

Also, does Melbourne make better Pizza than Italy?

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Scott Rao is the most recognised coffee roasting expert in the world. Through his consulting work he has helped countless coffee roasters to improve their roasting and day to day operations. The who's who of coffee all look up to him.

Kirk and Scott cater to roasters that are at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level of roasting, so if you roast coffee already or you want to learn, this is the best podcast you can listen to.

Scott and Kirk both tell some horror stories of workplaces they have had in previous years.

And has Scott become a co-ferment guy?

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WARNING! This podcast has nothing to do with coffee.

Pokemon is the most successful game/movie/merchandising franchise in the world by a long way, and in recent times that has gone to a whole new level.

In the podcast we are joined by Jonathan D'allessando of Card Bot AU, a company that sells cards through vending machines. What started as a hobby for his brother CJ, ended up becoming a thriving business that cannot stock their machines quick enough!

Regular listeners to this show know that Kirk LOVES Pokemon, so here is an opportunity to have some fun on a different topic.

So what caused the Pokemon card wars? And how will they end?

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The World Coffee Championships recently unveiled their new sponsors, with Ceado now being the grinder sponsor for the barista category and Option O for brewers cup.

Coffee competitions have always been costly, but this year they're going to a new level and the frequency at which the sponsors change make it hard for would be competitors to budget accordingly.

Perhaps the most shocking change is that for the Brewers Cup competitors will now be required to use the same grinder for compulsory and open service which is a massive change that has already upset many competitors.

Plus, Kirk apologises to Ceado for singling them out in a previous post.

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On the weekend US President Donald Trump and his administration captured Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela and his wife, sparking international outcry and condemnation.

While the world is still learning more details there is much conjecture on what comes next.

One thing is for sure, if the region were to become unstable and if shipping near one of the worlds busiest shipping routes is disrupted, the outcome for the coffee industry would be dire.

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