Podcast for coffee professionals and enthusiasts. Valerian interviews emerging and established coffee professionals who are ready to reveal their secrets so you can use them to improve the quality of your coffee and boost your coffee business.
Valerian works on online coffee education projects from his home in Northern California. Originally he is from Central Europe where he co-owns a third wave coffee roasting company called Green Plantation.
Join him on the path to discovering the newest trends in the coffee industry.
Tim is not new in the business world, he built and sold a few successful ventures. When he moved to Grand Rapids, MI, he decided to skip the line and buy his next venture instead of doing the startup…
My guest in this episode is Stephen Ezell. Stephen is my old buddy, who together with Jonathan Shepard started Sequential Coffee.
Jonathan is the business brain and Stephen is the coffee brain of thi…
I am not sure whether it is Joey's fascinating story or the current global situation, but this episode got a bit personal.
Joey first started trading in “commodities” as a drug user and later deal…
Mitchell Popadziuk managed to fall into a perfect team. He is the business mastermind, his brother Tristan brings the coffee passion, and their mother Kelly is the soul of sales and marketing. I am j…
Nick Walton is a rebel... was a rebel. He grew up on a milk farm, but his revolutionary attitude towards his parents drove his dad to say "enough! Time to grow up!" Nick's coffee story starts with sl…
We are back with a great new podcast featuring a really cool new innovation in coffee roasting - the Bellwether Coffee Roasting Machine.
Bellwether has developed a new type of small-batch electric co…
We are back with part 2 of our discussion with Umeko Motoyoshi, coffee entrepreneur, social media expert, educator, and author. In this episode we continue last week’s discussion with the author of T…
This week we talk with Q grader, author, educator, entrepreneur Umeko Motoyoshi. This is part 1 of a two part episode with Umeko, the creator of the Umeshiso rainbow cupping spoon and author of The @…
In this episode, we interview Rick Appleton (Boston) and Abdulrahman Qurban (Saudi Arabia), students attending the SCA Sensory class at Boot Coffee Campus. What were the hardest parts of the course a…
In this episode, we will explore the world of wine with Eric Danch.
We focus on tasting and sensory comparison between wine and coffee, but we also touch on the importance of origin, farming and proc…
In this podcast, we will revisit the question of what is the ideal size of the roaster one should buy for their coffee roasting startup. You can find my old article here:
After a healthy intro about natural wine Marcus and I will answer your questions about coffee roasting.
Wine provided for this episode was by Noel Diaz and his Purity Wine.
These were your questions …
We are Back [in Arnold's accent]. After a long rest, we are back with a very special episode on Rwandan coffee. Smaya will tell us about women in coffee in Rwanda, about how to become East African Ae…
Where to sell your coffee? What shall be your wholesale price? Is Amazon or grocery stores the answer for your sales? We decided to share our experience from our first year trying to find the best sa…
In this episode, we are going to talk about logo and packaging design. When it comes to the logo design we used plenty of services like Fiverr, 99 Designs and we will describe you the good and the ba…
This is a promised episode where we try to inspire through our experience of building a coffee brand.
After I introduce William - the coffee farmer and the CEO of Unleashed Coffee we will give you f…
Denet Lewis from Barbell Coffee will reveal how can you start a coffee business under $10000 and how did they find their crowd in the crossfit niche.
In this episode we will also talk about differen…
In this episode I have a very exciting guest all the way from Paris.
Jana Bukovinova opened a cafe/bistro in Paris called Thank You My Deer.
She is the business owner, barista, baker and chef. As I…
I think I am not wrong when I say that most coffee professionals dream of going to the origin, tasting the coffee cherry and frolicking on the coffee farm like Kaldi’s goats in 15th century in Ethiop…
Second episode with Michal Molčan from the Standart Magazine.
In this episode Michal will describes his ideal cafe, elaborates on the idea behind Peet's acquisition of Intelligentsia's coffee and de…