Adventures In Coffee – Details, episodes & analysis

It’s with a heavy heart that we - Jools, James, and Scott - have decided to bring The Adventures in Coffee podcast to an end.

It’s been a wonderful four seasons! In this final epsiode, we have a conversation about the high points in making this podcast and share lots and lots of thanks.

Thank you for listening and coming on the journey with us!

If you want to follow us on our solo adventures, check out the links below:

Jools

Instagram - https://bit.ly/39VRGew
Website - https://bit.ly/3Jw2DXL
Newsletter http://bit.ly/3kXjqZx- https://bit.ly/3kXjqZx

James

Instagram - https://bit.ly/2Mlkk0O
The Science of Coffee podcast - https://bit.ly/3TdDnHO
A History of Coffee podcast - https://bit.ly/2NArChO
Filter Stories podcast - https://bit.ly/3zb5vnO

Scott

Caffeine mag Instagram - https://bit.ly/3oijQ91
Caffeine mag website - http://bit.ly/3jnLzIS
Bentley Creative Instagram - http://bit.ly/3YdLOox
Bentley Creative website - http://bit.ly/40hnggn

Dear Listeners,

How can this be the last episode of Series 4? We cannot believe the diversity and range of Series 4 and we owe so much of it to your fantastic input. Not to mention the lovely James, Jack, and Mijon! Thank you listeners and thanks guys!

We are so grateful that we decided to celebrate the season and gift you with a deep dive into making the most delicious coffee cocktail that you’ve ever had! Recipes included! How is this possible?

We reached out to two coffee cocktail mixologists:

Dave Jameson, 2-time UK Coffee in Good Spirits Champion, a Q-Arabica grader and coach of the 2017 World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion.

Alexandra Hager Beverage R&D Specialist for US locations of the Korean Bakery Franchise Tous Les Jours and 2022 US Coffee in Good Spirits Champion and the first US competitor at the World Championships.

On this episode, we pick their brains to learn about why they love coffee cocktails, how they create a balanced coffee cocktail, and how they create the perfect coffee cocktail based on a person’s particular tastes.

Then, Scott and Jools create custom coffee cocktails for each other! Get ready for a coffee adventure that will tickle your taste buds on Jools and Scott’s Coffee Cocktail Celebration!

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Alexandra Hager Website: http://bit.ly/3BnR8wE Instagram: http://bit.ly/3Fn0ZDZ

Alexandra recommends Death & Co’s Cocktail Book: http://bit.ly/3Pq8vms / Kells Irish

Restaurant and Bar: http://bit.ly/3FJ3GkL (especially, on Christmas Eve!)

Dave Jameson’s Danelaw Coffee Website: https://bit.ly/3HxVNjH / Instagram: http://bit.ly/3W5Pjwg

Asterly Bros Website: http://bit.ly/3iYVMe0 Instagram: http://bit.ly/3VReenJ

Pophams Bakery: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3Huzc7C

Lucid Coffee Roasters: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3Br7Uey

Paradox Design and Coffee: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3DDdYSr

Christmas Songs are courtesy of InAudio by infraction: http://bit.ly/3iWGRkN

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The Recipes!

The Black Rabbit!

Ingredients:
1 oz (1 part) Aperol
1 oz (1 part) Gin ( Preferably Light on the juniper ex. recommend Hendrick’s or the like)
1 oz (1 part) "Red Vermouth" - Cocchi Americano or Cocchi Rossa or Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
1 dropper (0.7g) saline solution (1 part salt to 5 parts water)
15g ground Rwandan coffee on a medium-fine setting (ideal for a pour-over), which I got from.....

To Prepare it, you…
Start with ground coffee in a decanter or container.
Add alcohol.
Add ice and stir for 45 seconds.
Srain into separate decanter or container stir until coffee is combined.
Let it sit for 2 min.
Place coffee dripper over a glass with ice (Ideally one large cube).
Pour over wet filter paper coffee filter - I used a v60 - into the glass of ice and garnish w/ an orange peel or flamed" orange twist.
Drip should take approximately 2 min .

The Toasty Mexoni Negroni.

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon Apricot jam
50ml - Mezcal - Scott used Mescal Verde (for more of a middle of the road smoky flavor) 25ml - Cold brew Coffee - If you make your own, a ratio of 120 g per liter is ideal - Scott used Dave Jameson's roastery's coffee - Mexico SIPRO Natural
25ml - Asterly Brothers Estate Sweet Vermouth
25ml - Campari

To Prepare it, you...

Combine mezcal, Campari, vermouth, cold brew in shaker or container.
Add a teaspoon of apricot jam.
Stir till the jam disperses.
Strain into into a chilled glass with ice.
Express the oils from an orange peel over the beverage and then drop the peel into the glass.

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Once upon a time, the simple pleasures of a homemade cup of coffee would have been limited to those in Ethiopia's cool, wet mountain forest regions. Today, a multi-billion dollar global industry means we can sip on an espresso virtually anywhere in the world. But what about coffee's future?

Scott, Jools and James embark on a mission into the unknown to each reveal an element of the magical and evolving world of coffee growing. The team (or most of them…) savour a specially brewed coffee alongside each story, all prepared on the Siemens EQ700 fully automatic espresso machine.

Scott talks genetics with World Coffee Research's Hanna Neuschwander as he takes us to the frontline of the battle to save coffee from climate change.

James enlists the help of coffee processing specialist and fellow podcaster Lucia Solis to decipher what the latest bamboozling terms on our coffee bags actually mean.

And Jools is joined by Jessy Luo as she whisks us away to one of the world's newest coffee-growing regions in a rather unexpected corner of the globe.

What do F1 and Dolly the Sheep have to do with the future of coffee? Click 'download' to find out!

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Jools' investigation into this elusive coffee will leave your taste buds clamouring for the sweet and fruity notes of Blue Mountain Coffee…

When was the last time you encountered Jamaican coffee in your favourite cafe? Chances are, unless you frequent the high-end establishments of Mayfair (or happen to be royalty), the answer may well be "never."

In this special episode, Jools takes Scott on a poignant personal journey into the land of her paternal heritage while casting light on Jamaican coffee's fascinating and disturbing past.

Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee was once considered the cream of the coffee crop, but plummeting production beneath an ominous veil of secrecy has left the country's coffee industry in crisis.

Along the way, the author of "The Mother of Us All", Karla Gottlieb, paints a picture of a paradise island invaded by colonialists and the ingenious fightback by a cunning queen. Smith's Coffee's Colin Smith explains the historical quirks that have led to most Jamaican coffee being sold to Japan.

Dominic Wyndham-Gittens of Wyndhams Coffee Roasters in Barbados points the finger at the Jamaican coffee industry's painful decline.

And Marshalee Valentine, President of JAWiC, offers a glimpse of hope for some green shoots of recovery.

Content Warning: This episode contains mentions/descriptions of slavery and violence against enslaved people that can be disturbing or triggering.


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Lisa Hanna’s article on the state of the Jamaican coffee industry: https://bit.ly/39sCsSb
Video of a Jamaican coffee farmer discussing the state of the industry : https://bit.ly/3NODsPF
Taino Calling Song - https://bit.ly/3x5LlKx
Smith’s Coffee - https://bit.ly/3akAfs8
HR Higgins Instagram (https://bit.ly/3yRqY4T)
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Next time you set about making your morning coffee, take a moment to peruse the info on your bag of beans. What do you notice? The variety of beans? Flavour notes? Technical details on where the coffee was grown?

They're not so different from the sort of blurb you might find on the back of a wine bottle in many ways. And that’s intentional. Specialty coffee has taken a lot from the world of wine.

But could the increasing overlaps be a problem for coffee farmers — or even dangerous?

In this episode, Scott and Jools join forces with coffee processing specialist and former winemaker Lucia Solis from the Making Coffee podcast to dive deeper into where our coffee comes from and what (if anything) wine's got to do with it.

Lucia talks to coffee producer Karla Boza from the Finca San Antonio Amatepec coffee farm in El Salvador and vintner Todd Kohn from the Wayfarer Vineyard in California to shed some light on the techniques behind picking, transporting and processing their precious produce.

Take a sip on this (soon-to-be-a-good) vintage episode to pique your curiosity about how coffee and wine are made, and why it matters.

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Can a secondhand popcorn popper really be used to roast delicious coffee…? The answer to that question may (or more likely, may not) surprise you!

Scott falls back in love with an old hobby as he embarks on a mission to separate the bean from the chaff with the IKAWA Home Roasting System.

On a personal journey of coffee-roasting discovery, Scott learns to find the sweet spot between first and second crack, and reveals just how much difference the way your beans are roasted makes to the flavour in your cup.

Respected roasting instructor Ildi Revi explains all about the significance of different “development” times and the Maillard reaction. Scott also decides to pit his roasting skills against the experts with none other than 2018 World Barista Champion Agnieszka Rojewska as the judge!

Can the self-proclaimed King of Caffeine out-roast a machine? Find out in Scott’s Roasting Journey.

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It’s every coffee drinker’s worst nightmare. You’ve rushed to that important morning meeting, but everything’s feeling a little hazy. You’re struggling to concentrate, and a nagging headache starts to creep in before you know it.

Then it hits you — you haven’t had your daily caffeine fix!

So what is it about this mysterious substance that can derail your whole day if you don’t have it? In a bid to find out, James conducts a cruel experiment with Scott and Jools, depriving them of coffee for 24 hours.

Producer man James bothers clever people to get to the bottom of what caffeine is and what it does to our bodies and brains!

Danielle Gulick from the Morsani College of Medicine explains how your morning cup can change your thinking. Lindsy Kass from the University of Hertfordshire tells us how some people can get away with a double espresso right before bed. Professor Jonathan Morris reveals how it’s not just humans who get a buzz from caffeine.

Ultimately we seek to find out: Do we really need to worry that an extra cup of coffee could be the end of us?


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Listen to the A History of Coffee podcast (https://bit.ly/2NArChO) and read Jonathan’s book, Coffee: A Global History (https://amzn.to/3dihAfU).

Follow Sibling Cafe in Cardiff (https://bit.ly/3L4YDLQ) on Instagram and taste Perky Blender’s decaf produced by Angele Ciza in Burundi (https://bit.ly/3rGPlOr)

Learn more about the Siemens EQ700 fully automatic espresso machine: https://bit.ly/3Ia8yy5

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Ever noticed how your “carbon neutral” coffee tickles the taste buds just that little bit more than your bog standard brew?

From coffee producers to cafes, the industry is falling over itself to show us how much it cares about the future of our planet.

But all is not always quite as it seems… So in this episode we’re delving into the murky world of “greenwashing.”

What is it? What’s being done about it? And with so much else going on in the world, is it really that big of a deal?

To help guide us through all the greenwashing grey areas, Jools and Scott are joined by environmental journalist David Burrows who goes in search of elephants and tigers in the cafes of Edinburgh. Miles Lockwood from the Advertising Standards Authority reveals how some alternative milk companies have been found to be greenwashing. And we learn when to be smug and when to be skeptical in the face of an environmental bombardment.

Armed with these tips, we hope you will be able to spot greenwashing next time you buy your coffee!

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Dear listener, beware! When it comes to buying coffee-making gear, ‘upgrade-itis’ is real. And it’s been hitting the pockets of coffee lovers everywhere.

Early symptoms include questioning whether to stick or twist, bewilderment at the range of choice, and uncertainty if spending those extra pounds on your kit can be tasted in your morning cup.

But, dear listers, fear not — because help is at hand. In this episode, Jools figures out where that golden sweet spot is when buying grinders, espresso machines and filter coffee set ups.
Are the savings from hand grinding beans worth the elbow grease? Can you really get a machine to make quality espresso for less than £300? And what’s the point of an automatic filter brewer? Coffee expert and Youtuber Lance Hedrick dials in from the Onyx Coffee Lab in Arkansas, USA, to help Jools and Scott identify the issues of diminishing returns.

So roll up your sleeve as we help you stave off that expensive ‘upgrade-itis’ before it’s too late!

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Check out Lance’s videos on Youtube -
Modding espresso machines with PID sensors: https://bit.ly/3qokWUq
Upgrading burrs sets in your grinders: https://bit.ly/3ipPvEN

Listen to our previous AIC about buying an espresso machine: https://bit.ly/369Aogp

Follow Lance Hedrick (https://bit.ly/351RcW2) and the Jester’s Tower (https://bit.ly/3N7wXY4) on Instagram.

Learn more about the Siemens EQ700 fully automatic espresso machine: https://bit.ly/3Ia8yy5

Find your perfect roast with the Ikawa Home: https://bit.ly/3IdYVPc

Join us at the London Coffee Festival! Send us an email - adventuresincoffeepod@gmail.com

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Close your eyes, and imagine taking a sip of thick espresso. What flavours would you hope are dancing on your tongue? Dark chocolate? Caramel?

How about lemon? What if the coffee is so acidic, you may as well be sucking on lemon juice? This acidity is often the result of roasting a coffee quite lightly, and specialty coffee loves this acidity.

But the weird thing is specialty coffee isn't obsessed with acidity because they necessarily enjoy acidic flavours. It goes waaaaaay deeper. So deep in fact it's caused massive Twitter brawls where a celebrity food columnist even sparred with a gang of self-proclaimed coffee punks.

Scott takes Jools on a coffee roasting journey, starting at the darker times in coffee, and how it evolved into the light roasts of today by speaking with Sonja Bjork Grant (Icelandic roaster and World Barista Judge) and Nick Mabey (co-owner of Assembly Coffee Roasters).

At the end, we ask the question: were the coffee punks right to be so focused on lightly roasted coffee?

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Learn more about the Siemens EQ700 fully automatic espresso machine: https://bit.ly/3Ia8yy5

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Join us at the London Coffee Festival! Send us an email - adventuresincoffeepod@gmail.com

Tell your local barista about Adventures in Coffee!

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