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Producer Toolkit: Quality Assurance, Pt 2 - The basics of good water for coffee

October 12, 2026 · 42 min

This episode takes you through the basics of good water for coffee. To objectively assess a coffee's quality, both producer and buyer need to taste it using the same water. But whose water standards should you choose? Why do roasters often…
Producer Toolkit: Quality Assurance, Pt 1 - A practical guide to tasting and roasting coffee

October 12, 2026 · 30 min

This episode is a practical guide to tasting coffee, sample roasting and judging quality, built for small producers on a tight budget. That makes it just as useful if you’re early in your coffee journey and want to learn the basics without…
Producer Toolkit: Price, Pt 2 - Discovering the true value of coffee

September 28, 2026 · 49 min

What is the right price for coffee? This episode shows what the journey of price discovery looks like from the perspective of a coffee farmer. Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will…
Producer Toolkit: Price, Pt 1 - How the commodity 'C' market works

September 28, 2026 · 41 min

This episode explores the strange world of the C market, where movements in the Brazilian currency or rebels boarding a random container ship decide the worth of a Colombian farmer's coffee. Yet specialty coffee still uses this number to…
Producer Toolkit: Marketing & Sales, Pt 2 - Navigating trade shows

September 14, 2026 · 43 min

This episode explores what a trade show actually feels like for a farmer who flew in on money his community pooled together, why a sausage dog opened a door that hundreds of cold emails couldn't, and why learning English may be a better…

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Producer Toolkit: Marketing & Sales, Pt 1 - The power of story

September 14, 2026 · 37 min

This episode explores why specialty coffee is a luxury business that runs on story more than flavour. Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will help you understand coffee farming better…
Producer Toolkit: Fermentation, Pt 3 - Is using yeast cheating? And who decides?

August 24, 2026 · 33 min

This episode explores why 30 cents a kilo is trivial for a large farm and unaffordable for a small one, the strange power imbalance that lets roasters define quality when nobody asks a winemaker what yeast they used, and how producers can…
Producer Toolkit: Fermentation, Pt 2 - The case for avoiding exciting fermentations

August 24, 2026 · 36 min

This episode explores why the specialty industry's obsession with exotic processing is a dangerous signal for farmers, five ways commercial microbes can make a farm more money, and what a well-run fermentation looks like on farms of very…
Producer Toolkit: Fermentation, Pt 1 - Nature's lottery and coffee's 3,000-year lag

August 24, 2026 · 23 min

This episode explores why coffee is only fifteen years into a fermentation revolution that wine and bread went through millennia ago, what's actually happening inside the tank when microbes multiply into billions on their own, and why…
Producer Toolkit: Processing, Pt 3 - Critical instruments and poisoned rivers

August 9, 2026 · 28 min

This episode explores how just a handful of cheap instruments can ensure quality is reproducible year-on-year, and the wastewater crisis poisoning rivers behind picture-perfect coffee farms. Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series…
Producer Toolkit: Processing, Pt 2 - Drying mistakes that ruin coffee quality

August 9, 2026 · 31 min

This episode explores the simple drying mistakes that compromise months of careful work, and the low-cost fixes that protect a coffee's shelf life and flavour. Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia…
Producer Toolkit: Processing, Pt 1 - Coffee rockstars and picking’s brutal economics

August 9, 2026 · 42 min

This episode explores why chasing avant-garde processing before nailing the basics is a trap for most producers, the brutal economics behind selectively picking and ways to sort coffee cherries in the wet mill. Part of The Coffee Producer…

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About the show

Coffee stories with an extra shot of history and science. Filter Stories is a podcast revealing coffee’s hidden microscopic secrets, its powerful past, and how your choice of beans impacts tens of millions of people. See the behind-the-scenes stories on Instagram @filterstoriespodcast. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the show and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!