Episode Eight: Modern Coffee Culture

What this episode covers

The way we drink and experience coffee has changed drastically. To many people, it’s become a specialty beverage where taste not only matters, but is decrypted using a multi-tiered tasters wheel consisting of 73 individual flavors. Cafes today focus not just on profit margins, but on growing standards and fair wages for farmers. Baristas take their craft seriously, competing against each other for trophies shaped like espresso tampers and portafilters. So…how’d we get here? Episode Eight Sources: * “Norway and Coffee,” The Flamekeeper, by Trish Rothgeb https://web.archive.org/web/20031011091223/http://roastersguild.org/052003_norway.shtml * “About Us,” Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters https://www.wreckingballcoffee.com/pages/about-us * “What is ‘Third Wave Coffee’, & How Is It Different to Specialty?” Perfect Daily Grind, by Julio Guevara https://www.perfectdailygrind.com/2017/04/third-wave-coffee-different-specialty/ * “The Three Waves Of Coffee,” Coffee Kind https://coffeekind.com/blogs/the-reading-room/the-three-waves-of-coffee * “The Future of Specialty Coffee and the Next Wave,” Coffee Talk, by Timothy J. Castle http://coffeetalk.com/ctmagazine/01-2016/21518/ * “Do You Know Trish Rothgeb?” Fresh Cup Magazine, by Ellie Bradley https://www.freshcup.com/do-you-know-trish-rothgeb/ * “In San Francisco, Wrecking Ball Coffee’s Making Better Less Cool,” Sprudge, by Michael Light http://sprudge.com/in-san-francisco-wrecking-ball-coffees-making-better-less-cool-87750.html * “Trish Rothgeb On The State of Specialty Coffee,” Imbibe Magazine, by Penelope Bass http://imbibemagazine.com/trish-rothgeb/ * “I Want Coffee, Not Coffee,” The Specialty Coffee Chronicle Issue 4, by Nicholas Cho https://www.scribd.com/doc/62935061/Doing-Good-and-Making-Change-Chronicle-Issue-4 * “2018 World Barista Championship Official Rules and Regulations, Version 2018.01.23.” https://www.dropbox.com/s/anqulrq9v090n4b/2018%20WBC%20Rules%20and%20Regulations-JAN23.pdf?dl=0 * World Barista Championship, https://worldbaristachampionship.org/world-barista-championship-amsterdam-2018/ * “What Goes Into Competition Preparation”, Origin, by Winston http://originroasting.co.za/v3/goes-competition-preparation/ * US Coffee Championships Timeline http://www.uscoffeechampionships.org/timeline/ * “The BGA and the Third Wave,” CoffeeGeek.com , by Nicholas Cho http://coffeegeek.com/opinions/bgafiles/04-02-2005/ * “Why Do Americans Drink Half As Much Coffee Today As They Did 60 Years Ago?” Zócalo Public Square, by Murray Carpenter <a href="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.

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