The Coffee Smarter Podcast
The Coffee Smarter Podcast is focused on helping you create a better cup of coffee and a better coffee experience at home while also sharing the history, economy, and impact that your cup of coffee has on the world. Season 1 focuses on methods of coffee brewing one might use at home. Coffee Smarter is a Roast! West Coast podcast. Coffee Smarter Pro for burgeoning roasters is coming soon!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Advice from Grant Gamble and Suneal Pabari, the Co-Founders of Leaderboard: The Coffee Game
Advice from Grant Gamble and Suneal Pabari, the Co-Founders of Leaderboard: The Coffee Game (Toronto). Leaderboard is a worldwide tasting game that prizes both the educational and communal experience…
Advice from Chuck Patton, Chuck's Roasts and Patton Coffee Consulting
Advice for coffee people from Chuck Patton, the Founder, Head Roaster, and namesake of Chuck's Roast Coffee (San Diego, CA) and Patton Coffee Consultancy. His new ventures focus on roasting excellenc…
Advice from Stephanie Walter-Krause of Swelter Coffee
Sage advice on starting a coffee business and coffee roasting from Swelter Coffee's Founder and Head Roaster Stephanie Walter-Krause. Find more coffee content in our newsletter on Substack at roast…
Erick Armbrust Introduces Us To Cropster Cafe Software.
Cropster's Erick Armbrust joins the podcast to introduce us to Cropster Cafe software, and discuss the merits of art vs. software enable consistency in roasting. Learn more at Cropster.com, and fin…
Erick Armbrust Introduces Us To Cropster's Roast Software.
Cropster's Erick Armbrust joins the podcast to introduce himself and Cropster's original Roast software. Learn more at Cropster.com, and find more coffee content in our newsletter on Substack at roas…
Does A Dockworker Strike Impact Your Coffee?
Hacea Coffee Source's Jared Hales rejoins the podcast to answer share thoughts on the recent dockworker strike's impact on coffee. We chatted hours before it was resolved!
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At Home Coffee Basics ft. Jared Hales of Hacea Coffee Source
Hacea Coffee Source's Jared Hales rejoins the podcast to answer some pressing questions, like Does my brewer need to be level and How accurate should my scale be?
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Musings From The Judges Chair: Hacea Coffee Source Roasting Comp
Hacea Coffee Source asked me to join four CQI Q-Graders to judge their recent roasting competition. Each competitor blind roasted a blend of three green coffee beans (Colombia, Brazil, Ethiopia). We …
What Is In A Grinder With Baratza's Alvin Kim
First published on Coffee Smarter Pro: Alvin Kim is our guest coffee expert. He is the marketing manager for the Baratza which is part of the Breville group. Head to baratza.com to see the full lin…
In Case You Missed it: Compilation Post
Find our In Case You Missed it Newsletter here: https://open.substack.com/pub/roastwestcoast/p/in-case-you-missed-it-coffee-smarter
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Should You Have A Relationship With Your Local Coffee Roaster?
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In the 4th episode of Coffee Smarter Season 3, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I chat about how those of us buyin…
Make Alternative Creamers At-Home
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In the 3rd episode of Coffee Smarter Season 3, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I discuss making milk alternatives …
Automatic Espresso Machines At-Home
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In the second episode of Coffee Smarter Season 3, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I discuss brewing espresso at-hom…
Manual Espresso Making At-Home
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In the first episode of Coffee Smarter Season 3, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I discuss brewing espresso at-home.…
Coffee People: Nick Visconti, Drink Coffee. Do Stuff
The Coffee Smarter Podcast is on break. In its place, enjoy this episode of Coffee People hosted by Ryan Woldt. Former pro snowboarder Nick Visconti, founder of Drink Coffee. Do Stuff in South Lake T…
Top 5-ish Tips For Brewing Better Coffee
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In the last episode of Coffee Smarter Season 2, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I recap some of our top coffee brewin…
Adding Milk and Milk Alternatives to Your Coffee
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In this episode, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I discuss adding milk and milk alternatives to our delicious cups of …
Adding Sugar And Sweeteners To Your Cup Of Coffee
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In this episode, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I discuss adding sugar and sweeteners to our delicious cups of coffee.…
Building Your Hand Grinding Muscles
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In this episode, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I discuss hand grinding coffee. The goal of this show is to enable you …
Cold Coffee Brewing At-Home
Welcome to the Coffee Smarter Podcast hosted by Ryan Woldt. In this episode, Chris O'Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and I discuss styles of cold coffee brewing at home. The goal of this show …