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CART
by Sustain Coffee
CART, a podcast about Coffee and Related Topics.Join us as we talk through the ultra-coffee basics, chat about café culture with friends, and dive into more detailed science-focused aspects of the fruit we cherish. ---INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/901sustaincoffee/WEBSITE - 901sustaincoffee.comYOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/@901sustaincoffee/videosPATREON - https://www.patreon.com/901sustaincoffee---A podcast by Sustain Coffee.
Episodes
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C-Prices & The Coffee Market - SUSTAIN COFFEE
We're baaaaaaaaaaaack! So happy to have a new podcast episode for you all to enjoy. Bit of a new format, no longer sectioned by seasons, we're going to numbers! This is episode #92, originally recorded on 2/12/2025. This episode features Joseph Jenkins (Executive Director & Founder, Sustain…
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The Invaluable Role of Coffee Roasters
Coffee roasters serve as behind-the-scenes laborers in the coffee industry. We may not see nor speak with them directly as often as we do baristas, but a lot ride on their craft, decisions, and know-how. Let this episode be a reminder of the invaluable skills that coffee roasters bring to the...
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The MOST Important Coffee Book Right Now - SUSTAIN COFFEE
SEE THIS ON YOUTUBE! In-vogue coffee processing methods, misunderstanding poverty, unrealistic Western expectations, and the most important coffee book you can read right now. Dante and Joseph sat down to talk through these topics and more! Joseph had quite a lot to say in this one, so props to...
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The Intersection of Hospitality and Education Within Specialty Coffee - SUSTAIN COFFEE
We've got a lengthy episode today! Joseph sat down (virtually) with Conor Conway, the Director of Coffee and Co-Founder of Epoch Chemistry. Conor just placed in the top six of the Canadian Barista Championships! This episode says a lot about Epoch Chemistry and its approaches. Joseph and Conor...
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Brewing Ratios Geek Out - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Welcome back to Season Season "SHOP TALK TOPICS"! Say that three times fast. Shop talk topics Shop talk talpics Opps, try slower. Shop.. talk.. T O P I C S ANYWAYS! In this epsiode Dante and Joseph shoot the breeze and talk all about their experiences tweaking brewing ratios. Should you go high…
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Where Has All the Passion for Coffee Gone? - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Join Dante and Joseph as they sit down to have a sort of "State of the Union" conversation regarding the coffee industry within Memphis. From addressing the much-discussed burnout to talking about where we think the passion has gone in our city, it's a jam-packed episode! --- Don’t forget to get...
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Over-Branded, Heavily Marketed Specialty Coffee Products - SUSTAIN COFFEE
**BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE POLL! WE WANNA HEAR FROM YA** In this episode, Dante and Joseph chat about the advantages and disadvantages of heavily branded products. What justifies one roaster charging more for their coffee if it is the same green? How does the marketing of a product (or lack...
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Brewing Ratios, Aroma, and MORE! - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Dante and Joseph sit down to chat about different approaches to brewing that have to do with aroma and ratios. How much do these things matter to your brewing experiences, and what makes coffee taste so much better at a cafe than at home? --- Don’t forget to get connected on our social platforms!...
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The "Anchoring" Effect - Getting out of Your Coffee Experience RUT - SUSTAIN COFFEE
In this episode Joseph covers... In regards to shop-talk concepts - there is an importance found in trying coffees that are outside of either our comfort zones or ones that are just plain exciting. There is this often tricky line to walk as a coffee professional, where you experience excellent...
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Automation in the Cafe, Good or Bad? - SUSTAIN COFFEE
This week Dante and Joseph sat down and had a conversation regarding automation and whether or not they see it as a good or bad thing. Stay tuned to the end where they changed the topic and covered their top three coffee-growing regions. --- As always, Patreon members get the show early. <3 Thank...
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Outlooks on the Coffee Industry in Memphis, Where We Are- SUSTAIN COFFEE
Dante and Joseph are back at it again! The two chop it up and talk about complacency, burnout, and their outlook on the state of the coffee industry here in Memphis. The conversation is a rather vulnerable one, and we appreciate you listening. -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social...
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Adjacent industries to specialty coffee, economics of coffee, and idealistic views of cafes - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Welcome to season SEVEN of the podcast. This season is titled, "Shop Talk". We hope to discuss the nitty-gritty details of our industry and hope to be honest in our chats and perspectives. This episode was a conversation between Dante and Joseph. Here are some of the things that were covered:...
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Exit Interviews From Our Regulars
Thank you, thank you, thank you! The past year doing pop-ups weekly at Boycott has been lovely. We are grateful to everyone who has come to support us! <3 Lots of fun stuff coming down the line that we are excited to share with you all. Be sure to follow along with us on our next move. Happy...
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Flower Child Coffee x Sustain - SUSTAIN COFFEE
We had the privilege of chatting it up with Prestin Yoder of Flower Child Coffee! Joseph and Prestin talk about an array of topics. Here are some of the highlights: Screen sizes as it relates to coffee roasting Extraction techniques for light roasted coffee Where does taste take you? Hot takes on...
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Coffee Processing Methods as Related to Perceived Quality, and More! - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Joseph runs the gambit on this commute episode. Here is a rough outline of some of the talking points covered in this episode: Coffee processing as it relates to perceived quality Coffee processing as it relates to roast development Experimental coffee processing Coffee cuppings as an amenity...
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Cupping, Scoring, and the Value Found in Graded Coffee - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Coffee scoring is something we have been chatting about a lot lately. So what's the big deal?! Listen to Joseph give a brief explanation on how coffees are scored (and in a lot of ways assigned their valuable attributes), and some ways we can respond as everyday coffee drinkers. Here is the…
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Siphon Brew History via CHATGPT - SUSTAIN COFFEE
This was a fun one! YouTube video to follow - be sure to get subscribed. Joseph Jenkins and Nick Griffin sit down to chat about the history of the siphon brewer. (With the aid of CHATGPT, that is) -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social platforms! On all platforms, you will find brew…
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The Value of Trust (Within the Specialty Coffee Industry) - SUSTAIN COFFEE
This podcast episode is a funky one! A little shorter than normal and recorded while commuting, this episode reveals some of our thoughts regarding trust within the coffee industry. -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social platforms! On all platforms, you will find brew guides and coffee...
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Where Is The Coffee Industry Heading in the Next 5 Years? - SUSTAIN COFFEE
We are joined by Noah of Ravenous for this fun conversation! Be sure to check out our YouTube channel for the video mentioned at the top of the show. -- -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social platforms! On all platforms, you will find brew guides and coffee resources, and learn more about...
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Coffee Journey Timeline - The Hard Part - SUSTAIN COFFEE
"As with most passions, especially creative ones, inspiration tends to spark motivation" Returning to the coffee journey timeline, once again. This time we want to discuss a point that we are experiencing, and one that is a little harder to navigate than the others. -- Don’t forget to get…
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Reconnecting to the Indigenous Practices and Beliefs Surrounding Coffee (featuring CXFFEE BLACK) - SUSTAIN COFFEE
"Buna fi nagayaa hin dhabina" "May your house lack no coffee nor peace" "The coffee industry as we know it today is the direct result of the labor of enslaved Africans in Brazil." This episode was quite a speed run, but it was insightful nonetheless! Happy to sit down for a quick chat with the…
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Historically Different, Systematically the Same - SUSTAIN COFFEE
BUY COFFEE-TASTING TICKETS HERE!!! -- Our modern-day cafes are pretty different when we think of coffeehouses, as they used to be called. They are different in their goals, intentions, and the people groups they include. It is hard to imagine a cafe today that is not a hotbed of patrons hunched...
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Coffee Culture Growth in the Seventeenth Century - SUSTAIN COFFEE
If there was ever a time that the most hyper-specific topics of news, politics, hobbies, and just about anything else were easy to access, it would be right now. As each day passes, we gain access to more and more layers of content, endless pages of scrolling text, video, and images - all of…
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Coffee BANNED?! - SUSTAIN COFFEE
READ THIS SCRIPT WELCOME TO SEASON SIX! This season will be history focused. Can you imagine coffee being something that was considered morally wrong and even illegal? As something that is rooted in our culture today, it is hard to fathom. -- Sources used:...
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Workshop Review "You Wanna Try Some Acid?" - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Today we are going to review some of the conversation points from our most recent workshop. If you were there and got the chance to go hands-on with us, thank you again! This workshop was slightly different from previous ones, as we spent the most time we have ever spent diving hands-on into...
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Grind City Coffee Expo 2022, DATA REVIEW FROM FRESHNESS EXPERIMENT - SUSTAIN COFFEE
For today's episode, we will be reviewing some of the data gathered from this year's Grind City Coffee Expo. If you were there and came to our booth, hello and thank you! It was a great day chatting up coffee with people, and so many attendees had kind things to say to us, which was quite...
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Experiment Review - What is the Connection Between Brew Temp and TDS / EY %? - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Today we will look at an experiment that we conducted in order to answer a question we had. The initial question that we had was “do lower brew temps equal lower TDS values?” This can be a larger conversation of how brew temps affect TDS at all. We are simply looking to answer a question, perhaps...
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Female Representation & Diversity in Specialty Coffee (featuring Lillie Blanton) - SUSTAIN COFFEE
The title says it all! Today our guest is a first-time voice on the show, Lillie Blanton. With an education in law, Lillie has worked in the coffee industry for a collective four years. Some of the cafes she has served at include La Colombe in DC, Betterbuzz in San Diego, and now City & State in...
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"@#$% recycling?!" Active Versus Passive Recycling, A Sustainability Topic - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Reduce, reuse, recycle. We have all heard these three words repeated, and perhaps we have been the ones to repeat them. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Does it seem odd that we tend to focus on the second two words, and more often just the third word - recycle? Reduce, reuse, recycle. What if recycling…
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Addressing a Hurting Memphis - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Today’s episode will be a bit different from the normal show. When writing a script, we felt it necessary to address our city instead of talking about a coffee topic; next episode we will resume our standard programming. We will look at two aspects today: the reality of tragedy, and the beauty of...
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How Everyday Attentiveness, Foods, and Habits can serve as Palate Training - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Have you ever heard someone say, “This tastes like chocolate!” or perhaps something hyper-specific like, “This tastes just like Hershey’s Cookies & Creme candy bar!” when they are tasting a said coffee? Or really any other thing? Today we would like to provide a few real-life processes that you…
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Residual Caffenation & The Likes - SUSTAIN COFFEE
When doing the preliminary research for this episode, we could not find too many scientific sources on the topic. Or at least how we had originally envisioned it. Most of the data we found was less so about coffee specifically, and more so on caffeine as a whole. Today's episode will be brief and...
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Water Works (Water Formulation and TDS Stabilization) - SUSTAIN COFFEE
This week's episode is a geeky one! We’ll start our conversation by reminding ourselves that brewed coffee, while brewed, is still mostly water. A common understanding is that coffee is upwards of 99% water, and this concept is derived from the values we find using a refractometer. When we use a...
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Should We Have Macro or Micro Approaches to Taste? (featuring Noah Randolph) - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Noah Randolph is back in the studio with us today! Big shoutout to him for saving the day. Join us for a dialogue on macro versus micro approaches to how we taste coffee. -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social platforms! On all platforms you will find brew guides, coffee resources, and...
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Uncovering The Science of Coffee Freshness PART 2 - SUSTAIN COFFEE
This week we will continue to expand on this conversation of coffee freshness by: Observing how grind size affects CO2 release Beginning to discuss the separation of aroma, taste, and flavor -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social platforms! On all platforms you will find brew guides…
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Uncovering The Science of Coffee Freshness PART 1 - SUSTAIN COFFEE
If you have been in the specialty coffee scene for any duration of time, you know that freshness is a popular talking point. In fact, freshness was at the forefront of the third-wave movement in the beginning. Staying as close to the original product and enjoying it that way is a concept that we...
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Social Anxiety + Specialty Coffee (featuring Noah Randolph) - SUSTAIN COFFEE
To transition into our new season, we are going to refrain from the science heavy conversation with a bit of a palate cleanser; We will be discussing social anxieties that exist within the specialty coffee industry. But we won’t be doing this alone. In addition to being a friend, we have someone...
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BIRTHDAY SUPRISE! POPUP ANNOUNCEMENT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO... SUSTAIN! It's already been a year that we have been set up in our HQ space. To celebrate, we are having a birthday themed pop-up! Some of the highlights: ◾ MERCH! (FINALLY, t-shirts!) ◾ A tasty seasonal drink ◾ Pour-over bar (three carefully selected coffees) ◾ Vegan cosmic...
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The Burnout Discussion Continues - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Dante's takeover is a WRAP! Don't worry, you will still find him on our YouTube channel and teaching in-person classes. Listen in as Dante returns to discussions of burnout, as well as recapping some of the concepts introduced to us during his takeover of the show. -- Don’t forget to get…
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Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone - SUSTAIN COFFEE
WE'RE BACK! After a bit of hiccups and delays, we got Sustain barista Dante back in the studio. Join Dante as he discusses some parallels between personal growth and getting out of your coffee-brewing comfort zone. -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social platforms! On all platforms you…
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Exploring Brew Methods as Creativity - SUSTAIN COFFEE
This week's episode Dante explores the concept of creativity and how it relates to your coffee journey. Listen in as he explains how he is getting out of his coffee comfort zone, and some prompts to help you do the same! -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social platforms! On all platforms…
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What's the Deal with Cupping Coffee? - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Joseph takes on this week's episode and talks about coffee cupping as it relates to discipline! At the top of last week’s show, in the whatcha drinking segment, it was mentioned that we did a coffee cupping. We wanted to take time today to discuss this subject in more detail. We hope to explain…
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Expanding on What Discipline Looks Like in Coffee - SUSTAIN COFFEE
For this week's episode Dante reviews his first episode and speaks to the power of discipline in your coffee brewing rituals. Don't be fooled by the subject topic, there were plenty of laughs in this week's recording. Enjoy the episode and let us know your thoughts! -- Don’t forget to get…
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Inspiration Versus Motivation - SUSTAIN COFFEE
"While your motivations could be anything, what you are inspired by stays relative to your overall goal." <--- Our favorite of Dante's thoughts for this episode. Listen in as Dante contrasts these two words and how they relate to all of our positions in the coffee industry! -- Don’t forget to get...
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Coffee Farming is a Volatile Business - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Dante was unable to come to the studio due to being exposed to COVID, but not to fear - he has tested negative and is feeling good! Yet, out of extra precaution we decided to let Joseph the reins for today. This episode script has been inspired and somewhat dictated by us recently finishing a…
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POPUP ANNOUNCEMENT!
Join us for our second popup event! We'll be hanging at our HQ with some tasty pourovers, baked goods, and even some Wii bowling. Follow us on Instagram to see updates and the menu when it drops. January 22-23 11 am - 4 pm 3097 Knight Road Memphis, TN See you there!
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How Dante Views CHEMEX - SUSTAIN COFFEE
It's season FOUR of CART! We have Sustain barista and educator Dante Baker in the studio for this season. For this week's episode, Dante shares his perspective on the tried-and-true manual brewer: the CHEMEX. Dante finds it really helpful for practicing other methods of brewing and shares why he...
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Being Burnt Out in Coffee is... Okay?! - SUSTAIN COFFEE
It's season FOUR of CART! We have Sustain barista and educator Dante Baker in the studio for this season. For this week's episode, we have Dante talking about how feeling burnout is not all that bad. Dante also covers some of his perspectives on how to spot burnout along with some active steps to...
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Coffee Rituals as Discipline - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Welcome to season FOUR of CART! We have Sustain barista and educator Dante Baker in the studio for this season. Listen in as Dante talks through his coffee journey, sugar addiction, and how brewing coffee as a ritual has become a healthy discipline. -- Don’t forget to get connected on our social...
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The Intersection of Craft Coffee, Cocktails, and Food (featuring Zack Jennings) - SUSTAIN COFFEE
Today is a bonus episode where we reconnect with a long-time coffee friend, Zack Jennings. Zack was one of our first coffee mentors and we have always respected his desire for excellence. Listen in as we talk through his coffee journey and how it has brought him to an intersection of craft…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
CART, a podcast about Coffee and Related Topics.Join us as we talk through the ultra-coffee basics, chat about café culture with friends, and dive into more detailed science-focused aspects of the fruit we cherish. ---INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/901sustaincoffee/WEBSITE - 901sustaincoffee.comYOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/@901sustaincoffee/videosPATREON - https://www.patreon.com/901sustaincoffee---A podcast by Sustain Coffee.
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