I sit with a roasters panel on stage at the coffee festival called the Barcelona Coffee Awards. I’m not a roaster, but I got to ask some fun and sometimes tricky questions to Bogdan Georgesku with Mabó Coffee in Romania, Miguel Lamora with Atmans Coffee in Barcelona, and Daniela Nowitzki from Germany representing the roaster manufacturer Probat.

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I share my thoughts on coffee tourism and specifically my experiences with traveling for coffee in 2023. We touch on the differences in coffee cultures across Turkey, Dubai, Honduras, Nicaragua, China, Korea, The US, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. 

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Some references from this episode:

Coffee Libre / Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi / Finca Buenos Aires / Toraja Coffee Trip

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Pil Hoon Seu is the founder and owner of Coffee Libre in Korea, importing green coffee for roasters across the country as well as roasting for cafes and online retail. I’ve had the pleasure to travel with Pil to origin and even visit their headquarters in Seoul, which is where we had this conversation.

Coffee Libre / https://www.instagram.com/coffeelibrekorea/

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Alen Palander is a photographer and creative director of his video production company Palander Studios. He has grown his social media channels on Instagram and Youtube to an audience of close to 1 Million with his unique approach to architecture photography, travel, fashion, lifestyle, and strong partnerships with companies like Mercedes-Benz, Air Canada, Longines, and Formula 1.

He also partnered with me on a coffee project in Toronto, keeping with the coffee theme here, and we discuss some of the ups and downs of not only running a coffee business, but also investing in various coffee projects, even from outside the industry.

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Ales Pospisil is the co-founder of European Coffee Trip together with Radek Nozicka, which started as a web magazine back in 2014, quickly expanded into a growing YouTube channel, Instagram account, as well as a Mobile App to find specialty coffee all around the globe.

We talk about how we met close to 7 years ago, coffee adventures around Europe, challenges in filming a coffee documentary and developing an app from scratch, and how sometimes the best thing to do is JUST START!

ECT YouTube / https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeanCoffeeTrip

ECT Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/europeancoffeetrip/

ECT Mobile App + More / https://shor.by/europeancoffeetrip

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Cole Torode is the co-owner of Rosso Coffee Roasters in Calgary, Alberta, Founder and Head of Coffee and Operations at Forward Specialty Green Coffee Importers. He is also a seasoned coffee competitor as the 2018/2019 Canadian National Barista Champion, which brought him to place 5th and 3rd in the World Barista Championships during those consecutive years. This year, 2023, he also placed first in the Canadian Brewers Cup Championship.

In this episode, I share a slightly older conversation with Cole from December 2020. We continue the ongoing conversation about experimental fermentations in coffee processing, how we can talk about them, and discuss good examples from a mutual coffee producing colleague, Samuel Ronzon, and what he's doing on his farm in Veracruz, Mexico. For my conversation with Sammy in Spanish (with subtitles), check out our video chat on YouTube.

To follow Cole's coffee adventures, he can be found at @torodeo on Instagram.

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Lucia Solis (@lluciasolis) is a coffee processing specialist, and this episode includes two separate conversations in one. The first was back in October 2020 from our own homes, and the second one kind of as a follow up later in April 2022 when I visited her and her husband, Nick, on the coffee farm in Colombia.

Lucia has been working specifically with coffee for many years now, but actually comes from a wine background, studying Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis in California, and later training as a winemaker in Napa Valley. She now has a podcast called Making Coffee with Lucia Solis, and hosts Fermentation Training Camps around the world. 

Lucia can be found at www.luxia.coffee

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This is my first episode, welcome!

In this show, we explore the lives and passions of people from all walks of life who have paved their own path, nailed their niche, and designed their own lifestyle around what they truly care about – coffee being one of those things!

Inspired by my traveling coffee career, of course we also dive into the brewing habits, routines, and preferences of these creative and ambitious professionals in their everyday lives.

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