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#25: Guatemala After the Fuego Eruption Oct 15, 2018

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On June 3rd, an unexpected eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala killed more than a hundred people and caused many more to evacuate. Guatemala is home to tens of thousands of smallholder coffee farms, many of which have been directly affected. A few weeks ago, Kim Elena Ionescu, SCA’s Chief Research Officer, spoke to Alejandro Molina, Sustainability and Market Access Coordinator at ANACAFE, Guatemala’s national coffee association. They spoke on the phone about the eruptions and of what will be required to rebuild the lives and businesses of the farmers affected. Links: - Donate to FUNCAFE: http://funcafe.org/EN/# - Anacafé on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Guatemalacoffee - Funcafé on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funcafeguatemala - Alejandro Molina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dromolina/ Subscribe to this podcast on your favorite app: - iTunes: http://www.apple.co/2sXdmSj - Stitcher: http://www.bit.ly/2JBJOk8 - Pocket Casts: http://www.bit.ly/2JBowTT - RadioPublic: http://www.bit.ly/2JCfeGY --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#24: Re:co Podcast - Vava Angwenyi on Building an Alternative Narrative for Kenya's Coffee Farmers Sep 04, 2018

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On this episode of the Re:co Podcast, Kim Elena Ionescu speaks with Vava Angweni, Founder & Chief Coffaholic at Vava Coffee Ltd, and Co-Founder & Director of Gente Del Futuro. Vava sources coffee from farmers in Kenya and around East Africa, and most recently has worked with Fairtrade Africa to develop and launch two brands Zawadi Coffee (the first Fairtrade Certified women owned coffee in Kenya) and Kipkelion union coffee. At Re:co Symposium in April, Vava used the story of that project to reflect on sustainability challenges in coffee more broadly. This talk from Re:co Seattle is supported by Toddy. For over 50 years, Toddy brand cold brew systems have delighted baristas, food critics, and regular folks alike. By extracting all the natural and delicious flavors of coffee and tea, Toddy Cold Brew Systems turn your favorite coffee beans and tea leaves into fresh cold brew concentrates, that are ready to serve and enjoy. Learn more about Toddy at http://www.toddycafe.com. Links: - YouTube video: http://www.scanews.coffee/video/talks/reco-symposium/reco-seattle-2018/vava-angwenyi-empowering-kenyan-farmers-own-narrative - All Re:co videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/RecoSymposium - Speaker bios: http://www.recosymposium.org/speakers/ Subscribe to this podcast on your favorite app: - iTunes: http://www.apple.co/2sXdmSj - Stitcher: http://www.bit.ly/2JBJOk8 - Pocket Casts: http://www.bit.ly/2JBowTT - RadioPublic: http://www.bit.ly/2JCfeGY --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#23: Re:co Podcast - Sustainability: Changing Everything Except the Goal Aug 23, 2018

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Kim Elena Ionescu moderates a panel with Merling Preza, Alejandro Cadena, Lee Wallace, and Molly Laverty at Re:co Symposium in Seattle in April 2018. In this week's episode of the podcast, Peter Giuliano speaks with Kim Elena about the introductory sustainability panel, which covered a wide range of topics including the reduction in the profitability of coffee farms, the changes in prices coffee buyers offer to coffee farmers, and the need for industry investment in research. Over the next three weeks, we’ll be releasing episodes from the sustainability session at Re:co Symposium this year, and Kim Elena will be taking over the Re:co Podcast for those sessions, interviewing some of the speakers and diving deeper into some of the topics covered. This talk from Re:co Seattle is supported by Toddy. For over 50 years, Toddy brand cold brew systems have delighted baristas, food critics, and regular folks alike. By extracting all the natural and delicious flavors of coffee and tea, Toddy Cold Brew Systems turn your favorite coffee beans and tea leaves into fresh cold brew concentrates, that are ready to serve and enjoy. Learn more about Toddy at http://www.toddycafe.com. Links: - YouTube video (English subtitles): http://www.scanews.coffee/video/talks/reco-symposium/reco-seattle-2018/sustainability-changing-everything-except-the-goal-panel - YouTube video (Spanish subtitles): https://youtu.be/C2llWrjMW4A - All Re:co videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RecoSymposium - Speaker bios: www.recosymposium.org/speakers/ Subscribe to this podcast on your favorite app: - iTunes: apple.co/2sXdmSj - Stitcher: bit.ly/2JBJOk8 - Pocket Casts: bit.ly/2JBowTT - RadioPublic: bit.ly/2JCfeGY --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#22: Re:co Podcast - Andrea Illy on the Global Economics of Coffee Jul 10, 2018

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This week's episode of the Re:co Podcast features Illycaffè Chairman Andrea Illy speaking at Re:co Seattle in April 2018. Over his long career, Andrea has established an identity as a leader, thinker, and creative mind in coffee. We asked Andrea to contribute a talk on the complex economics of coffee and the future of coffee to this year’s Re:co, and he generously agreed to participate. Peter Giuliano caught up with Andrea after the event for a conversation recorded exclusively for the podcast. This talk from Re:co Seattle is supported by Toddy. For over 50 years, Toddy brand cold brew systems have delighted baristas, food critics, and regular folks alike. By extracting all the natural and delicious flavors of coffee and tea, Toddy Cold Brew Systems turn your favorite coffee beans and tea leaves into fresh cold brew concentrates, that are ready to serve and enjoy. Learn more about Toddy at www.toddycafe.com/ Links: - YouTube video: www.scanews.coffee/2018/07/10/andrea-illy-the-complex-global-economics-of-coffee/ - Speaker bios: www.recosymposium.org/speakers/ Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: - iTunes: apple.co/2sXdmSj - Stitcher: bit.ly/2JBJOk8 - Pocket Casts: bit.ly/2JBowTT - RadioPublic: bit.ly/2JCfeGY --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#21: Re:co Podcast - Ric Rhinehart on the Future for Specialty Coffee Jun 11, 2018

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Welcome to the Re:co podcast, a new series where we’ll be sharing talks and discussions from Re:co Symposium, SCA’s premier event dedicated to amplifying the voices of those who are driving specialty coffee forward. We’ll also be having special interviews with the speakers themselves, learning more about their perspectives and innovations. This episode from Re:co Seattle in April 2018 features SCA Executive Director Ric Rhinehart. We have a little tradition at Re:co, when Ric gives an annual talk on the State of Specialty Coffee. We’ve given that talk a number of names over the years, like ‘Ric’s Fireside Chat’ and ‘Ric’s Doom And Gloom Warning’, but it’s become one of the most anticipated and valuable parts of our conference. Ric always brings together a variety of indicators— economic data, industry insights, and years worth of experience and firsthand knowledge– and weaves it together in a powerful narrative on the risks threatening our industry and possible solutions to them. This year is no different. Ric’s talk is an amazing economics lesson and call to action for our industry. This talk from Re:co Seattle is supported by Toddy. For over 50 years, Toddy brand cold brew systems have delighted baristas, food critics, and regular folks alike. By extracting all the natural and delicious flavors of coffee and tea, Toddy Cold Brew Systems turn your favorite coffee beans and tea leaves into fresh cold brew concentrates, that are ready to serve and enjoy. Learn more about Toddy at https://www.toddycafe.com/ Links: - Speaker bios: www.recosymposium.org/speakers/ - YouTube video: http://www.scanews.coffee/2018/06/04/ric-rhinehart-reco-seattle-2018 Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: - iTunes: https://apple.co/2sXdmSj - Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2JBJOk8 - Pocket Casts: http://bit.ly/2JBowTT - RadioPublic: http://bit.ly/2JCfeGY --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#20: Re:co Podcast - The State and Future of the Coffee Economy Jun 04, 2018

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Welcome to the very first Re:co podcast, a new series where we’ll be sharing talks and discussions from Re:co Symposium, SCA’s premier event dedicated to amplifying the voices of those who are driving specialty coffee forward. We’ll also be having special interviews with the speakers themselves, learning more about their perspectives and innovations. In this first episode of the Re:co Podcast, David Griswold moderates a panel with Lindsey Bolger, Phyllis Johnson, Teddy Esteve, Christine Condo Umuhoza, and Kent Bakke. This year marked the tenth anniversary of Re:co in the United States and to observe our anniversary, we decided to do some reflecting on where we’ve come in the past decade. As you’ll discover in this discussion, we went through every session and every talk of the past decade to identify all of the topics we’d covered. We began by taking the broadest look we could, discussing the state of the specialty coffee industry with a panel of distinguished leaders. To help us with this, we turned to the person who opened our first two Symposiums a decade ago: the talented interviewer and thinker David Griswold. Besides being a coffee visionary in his own right, David is great at drawing out the opinions and intelligence of other coffee thought leaders. We worked with David to identify a distinguished panel, representing a diverse group of those who could give us real insights into the biggest issues facing us in specialty coffee. This episode of the Re:co Podcast is supported by Toddy. For over 50 years, Toddy brand cold brew systems have delighted baristas, food critics, and regular folks alike. By extracting all the natural and delicious flavors of coffee and tea, Toddy Cold Brew Systems turn your favorite coffee beans and tea leaves into fresh cold brew concentrates, that are ready to serve and enjoy. Learn more about Toddy at www.toddycafe.com/. Links Speaker bios: www.recosymposium.org/speakers/ YouTube video: http://www.scanews.coffee/2018/06/04/the-state-and-future-of-coffee-reco-seattle-2018 Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/specialty-coffee-association-lectures/id1264797608?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/specialty-coffee-association-lectures Pocket Casts: http://pca.st/pGTk RadioPublic: https://play.radiopublic.com/specialty-coffee-association-lectures-G7pVJL --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#19: The Science of Coffee Freshness May 16, 2018

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This week on the SCA Podcast, we feature a talk by Samo Smrke, Research Scientist at the Coffee Excellence Center of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Samo covers research he conducted in collaboration with the SCA on the effects of carbon dioxide degassing on coffee freshness and espresso extraction. Research by Samo and his colleagues at the Coffee Excellence Center can be found in the SCA’s newly published Coffee Freshness Handbook, a publication that contributes to the body of scientific evidence on freshness in roasted coffee and serves as a practical resource for specialty coffee professionals. Learn more about the new SCA Coffee Freshness Handbook: https://store.sca.coffee/search?q=coffee+freshness+handbook Watch the video recording of Samo’s talk on SCA News: http://www.scanews.coffee/video/talks/roaster-camp-eu/roaster-camp-poznan-2017/coffee-degassing-fresnhess-extraction-samo-smrke CRG Retreat is coming to the city of Stevenson, WA, this August 23-26 and CRG Camp is headed to Evora, Portugal this October 10-13. Learn more and register on the CRG website: www.crg.coffee. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#18: Should Coffee Be Treated Like Wine? May 07, 2018

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This week on the SCA Podcast, Felipe Croce of Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza, a coffee farm in the state of São Paulo in Brazil, talks about coffee fermentation and asks, “Should coffee be treated like wine?” Watch the video recording of this talk on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/udQNeGtdW_Y. This week’s episode was recorded at the Roaster Guild of Europe’s Roaster Camp, which took place in October of last year in the city of Poznan in Poland. Since then, the Roaster Guild of Europe and the Roasters Guild have unified to form the Coffee Roasters Guild (CRG). CRG Retreat is coming to the city of Stevenson, WA, this August 23-26 and CRG Camp is headed to Evora, Portugal this October 10-13. Save the dates and sign up for the CRG newsletter to receive an alert as soon as registration opens for these two events by visiting http://www.crg.coffee. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#17: 10 Years of Re:co Symposium Apr 17, 2018

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This week on the SCA Podcast, we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Re:co Symposium, SCA's annual event dedicated to high-level discussions in specialty coffee. Peter Giuliano, SCA's Chief Research Officer and Director of Re:co, joins us to talk about the role of the event in the industry and to present two talks by Dr. Aaron Davis, a botanist and Senior Research Leader of Plant Resources at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In the first talk we’ll listen to from 2013, recorded at Re:co Symposium in Boston, Aaron talks about his introduction to coffee by a colleague, his co-discovery of 20 new coffee species, and his analysis of Arabica coffee's evolution and possible extinction. Watch the video of this 2013 talk on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/pr5Iis_J6-U In 2016 at Re:co Symposium Atlanta, Aaron followed up on the 2013 present the findings of his research on the effects of climate change and how it’s reshaping coffee production. Watch the video of the 2016 talk on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/KF_xFq9sJI0 To learn more about Re:co Symposium, visit https://www.recosymposium.org/what-is-reco/. If you'll be at Re:co or the Specialty Coffee Expo this week, we look forward to seeing you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

#16: The Building Blocks of a Cafe Apr 09, 2018

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This episode of the SCA Podcast features Ralf Rueller, speaking at CoLab: Belfast in November 2017 about the essential factors to consider when planning a new cafe. Since 2010, Ralf and his team at The Barn Coffee Roasters have been doing pioneering work in Berlin’s specialty coffee scene, exploring how to build an audience, lower barriers, and make specialty coffee work in the city. Join the Barista Guild of Europe at CoLab: Bucharest this 29-31 May, 2018! Learn more and register here: www.baristaguildofeurope.com/2018-bucharest/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/specialty-coffee-association-podcast/message

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