What's In Your Cup?

Blair Smith is a specialty coffee professional with over 14 years experience working in roles from barista, roaster, competitor, judge, general manager, brand ambassador, and is the Southwest Account Manager at Ally Coffee, a green coffee importer.Music by Beau Devereaux: https://beaudevereaux.comConnect:   / theblairista    / wiycup  Work with Ally:https://www.allycoffee.com/Roasters in this video: https://scenery.coffeehttps://prefacecoffee.net

In this episode, I sit down with Curtis Zimmerman, founder of Presta Coffee Roasters.

With over 15 years in the coffee industry and four cafés under his belt, we talked about sustainability, the importance of relationships at origin, lessons learned from the highs and lows and his perspective on coffee & community.

Music by Beau Devereaux:

https://beaudevereaux.com

Drink coffee from Presta:

https://prestacoffee.com/collections/all-products

Connect:

https://www.instagram.com/prestacoffee

https://www.instagram.com/wiycup

In this first episode, I had the pleasure of talking to David Palazuelos; West Coast Sales Manager for Algrano, a direct-trade platform working with roasters and producers all over the world. David started his coffee career as a barista who worked his way up to management, has been involved in barista competitions, both as a competitor and judge, as well as consulting in the RTD space. He is a good friend and today we had the opportunity to talk about what's in his cup.Music by Beau Devereaux.