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Coffee Canon
by Colin Mansfield
Part investigative storytelling, part historical commentary, Coffee Canon contextualizes coffee’s long journey from obscure plant to modern necessity.
Episodes
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Episode Ten: Warfare and Coffee Part One – The Civil War
You are reading Episode Ten: Warfare and Coffee Part One – The Civil War from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! When I say the words, “Civil War” what are the first things that pop into your mind? If you’re from the United States, it’s probably things like slavery, Abraham Lincoln, or...
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Episode Nine: The Double R Coffee House
You are reading Episode Nine: The Double R Coffee House from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Coffee’s history includes examples of shops and cafes that didn’t fit their historical context. On this episode of Coffee Canon, we deep-dive into one of these; a shop that was opened in 1919,...
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Episode Eight: Modern Coffee Culture
You are reading Episode Eight: Modern Coffee Culture from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! 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...
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Episode Seven: Dutch Coffee
You are reading Episode Seven: Dutch Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! The Netherlands is only about 1,000 miles from the Arctic Circle, making farming difficult. And yet, Dutch culture is intimately tied to coffee culture and history. Many of the biggest events that turned...
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Episode Six: Turkish Coffee
You are reading Episode Six: Turkish Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! From the halls of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent to the streets of the Grand Bazaar, from the fields of Kaldi the Goat Herder to the room of an Israeli fortune teller; Turkish Coffee runs the gambit.…
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Episode Five: Season of Giving (ft. Nate Westwick from Wild Goose Coffee Roasters)
You are reading Episode Five: Season of Giving (ft. Nate Westwick from Wild Goose Coffee Roasters) from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Around this time of year we hear stories of people giving back to the less fortunate in their communities. Whether it’s Ebenezer Scrooge from a...
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Episode Four: Holiday Drinks
You are reading Episode Four: Holiday Drinks from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Today on the podcast we’re bending the rules a bit and not focusing entirely on coffee. Instead, in the spirit of Christmas, we’re broadening our scope and looking at Holiday drinks as a whole, and the...
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Episode Three: Fermenting Coffee
You are reading Episode Three: Fermenting Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! For thousands of years humans have used fermentation to preserve food, leaven bread, and brew alcohol. In 19th century Belgium lambic beers were brewed using the yeasts and bacteria naturally found…
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Episode Two: Italian Coffee
You are reading Episode Two: Italian Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Episode Two of Coffee Canon focuses on Italian coffee. We often associate Italy with espresso, but the truth is that true espresso didn’t exist until about 1950. Developing It took the work of key...
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Episode One: Japanese Coffee
You are reading Episode One: Japanese Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! In this first episode of Coffee Canon, we take a look at Japan: a culture rich with history and tradition. Today, Japanese people love coffee – they’ve invented entire brew methods that the rest of the...
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Introducing Coffee Canon
You are reading Introducing Coffee Canon from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Over the past two years I’ve been making The Boise Coffee Podcast – a show about coffee. It started out as a bit of an experiment – I was still trying to figure out if doing an audio show about coffee even...
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S3 Episode 3: The Impact of Instant Coffee
You are reading S3 Episode 3: The Impact of Instant Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! This episode is all about the product which makes up over half of the global coffee market: instant coffee. As it turns out, instant coffee has more than earned it’s status as a mainstay in...
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S3 Episode 2: The History of Irish Coffee
You are reading S3 Episode 2: The History of Irish Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, this week’s episode is all about the history of Irish Coffee. Starting in a flying boat terminal in Ireland, then making its way to San Francisco, the story of...
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S3 Episode 1: Cities And Their Coffee Cultures
You are reading S3 Episode 1: Cities And Their Coffee Cultures from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Welcome back to The Boise Coffee Podcast! In this first episode of Season 3 I discuss how a city’s culture influences their coffee culture, then I give some tips on how to find great...
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S2 Episode 16: International Podcast/Coffee Day
You are reading S2 Episode 16: International Podcast/Coffee Day from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! This weekend is incredibly special: yesterday was National Coffee Day and the 7th Anniversary of BoiseCoffee.org, today is International Podcast Day, and tomorrow is International…
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S2 Episode 15: Italian Coffee ft. Hannah Mansfield
You are reading S2 Episode 15: Italian Coffee ft. Hannah Mansfield from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Over the last two weeks my wife, Hannah, and I were celebrating our anniversary in Italy. We got the opportunity to try coffee from the Cinque Terre, Florence, Venice, Rome, and...
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S2 Episode 14: We Are Happy To Serve You
You are reading S2 Episode 14: We Are Happy To Serve You from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! If we’re honest with ourselves, coffee shops provide a very utilitarian function during most of our week. They’re there to provide us with morning-saving caffeine-infused goodness on our way…
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S2 Episode 13: One Year Podcasting
You are reading S2 Episode 13: One Year Podcasting from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! To celebrate one year of The Boise Coffee Podcast I made an episode that highlights some of the key lessons I’ve learned while making the show. Most of the things discussed in this episode apply to...
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S2 Episode 12: Developing Latte Art & Perfecting Espresso
You are reading S2 Episode 12: Developing Latte Art & Perfecting Espresso from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Making coffee is as much an art as it is a science. As with any culinary endeavor, the amount of time and energy you put into the ingredients, the preparation, the creation,...
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S2 Episode 11: Coffee Production
You are reading S2 Episode 11: Coffee Production from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Before coffee is brewed and ground, before it is roasted, sold, or traded, and before it’s processed and picked, it must first be grown. Coffee, like most commodities, is a plant. At one time it was...
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S2 Episode 10: Crema.co ft. Emily McIntyre
You are reading S2 Episode 10: Crema.co ft. Emily McIntyre from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! This week on The Boise Coffee Podcast I’m joined by fellow coffee fanatic, and founder/coffee director at Crema.co, Emily McIntyre. Emily and I originally connected over Twitter and after...
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S2 Episode 9: The Chemex – A Synthesis of Logic and Madness
You are reading S2 Episode 9: The Chemex – A Synthesis of Logic and Madness from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Peter Schlumbohm was a larger-than-life inventor, marketer, and idea-man. At over 6 ft tall and around 300lbs, he was a hard man to miss. He loved food, women, and coming…
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S2 Episode 8: The AeroPress
You are reading S2 Episode 8: The AeroPress from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Alan Adler founded his company, Aerobie, around his flying disc by the same name. He essentially perfected the Frisbee, then went on to sell 1.4 million of them in just two years. Not only that, Alan’s...
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S2 Episode 7: Good Grounds Coffee ft. Mary Lansden Rees-Jones
You are reading S2 Episode 7: Good Grounds Coffee ft. Mary Lansden Rees-Jones from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! I’m joined this week by Mary Lansden Rees-Jones (formerly Brewbaker), one of the founders and the current Managing Director at Good Grounds Coffee Co. Good Grounds is a...
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S2 Episode 6: Loyalty Programs and Coffee
You are reading S2 Episode 6: Loyalty Programs and Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! The Pareto principle states that for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. For a business, this means that 80% of sales comes from 20% of customers. One of the keys to...
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S2 Episode 5: The Five Attempts to Ban Coffee
You are reading S2 Episode 5: The Five Attempts to Ban Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Coffee brings people together. It encourages conversations, stimulates thought, and provokes epiphany. Everyone seems to agree with this – or do they? It turns out that throughout…
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S2 Episode 4: Family Coffee Break
You are reading S2 Episode 4: Family Coffee Break from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! In this episode of The Boise Coffee Podcast I take a breather from the normal routine to have a conversation with my wife and my parents about our coffee roots. Thanks to my mom, Susan, my dad,...
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S2 Episode 3: Coffee Flavors and Aromas
You are reading S2 Episode 3: Coffee Flavors and Aromas from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! In this episode of The Boise Coffee Podcast I discuss coffee flavors and aromas, and how you can use the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel to put words to what you experience when you try a new...
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S2 Episode 2: The History of Coffee Pt. 2 – “The Favorite Drink of the Civilized World”
You are reading S2 Episode 2: The History of Coffee Pt. 2 – “The Favorite Drink of the Civilized World” from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! In this follow up to The History of Coffee Part 1 I discuss how coffee made its way from Europe to the United States, South America, Central...
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S2 Episode 1: The History of Coffee Pt. 1
You are reading S2 Episode 1: The History of Coffee Pt. 1 from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! I’m super excited to bring you Season 2 of The Boise Coffee Podcast, and we’re kicking it off right with a two-part season premiere. I haven’t written or talked much about the history of...
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Season 2 Preview
You are reading Season 2 Preview from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Hey everyone! After taking the holidays off, I’m ready to get back to podcasting. Season 2 of The Boise Coffee Podcast will start in early February with a two episode season premiere on the history of coffee. After...
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S1 Episode 8: Social Networks and Coffee ft. Gilles Brunner from Algrano
You are reading S1 Episode 8: Social Networks and Coffee ft. Gilles Brunner from Algrano from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! A lot of firsts on this week’s episode of The BoiseCoffee Podcast! First week live-streaming the entire podcast – if you missed it, be sure to tune in next…
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S1 Episode 7: #KillTheKCup Pt. 2 – The Environment
You are reading S1 Episode 7: #KillTheKCup Pt. 2 – The Environment from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! This long-awaited next installment of the BoiseCoffee Podcast #KillTheKCup saga is here! I took a month off to get married, and am ready to return to getting this podcast out…
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S1 Episode 6: #KillTheKCup Pt. 1
You are reading S1 Episode 6: #KillTheKCup Pt. 1 from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! This installment of The BoiseCoffee Podcast continues a long tradition here on the site: talking about all the reasons you should avoid Keurig coffee makers and the brew they produce. This is the…
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S1 Episode 5: Fair Trade vs. Direct Trade
You are reading S1 Episode 5: Fair Trade vs. Direct Trade from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Episode 5 of The BoiseCoffee Podcast centers around two very different, yet connected ways of sourcing coffee: Fair Trade, and Direct Trade. In this installment I outline the history of FLO,...
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S1 Episode 4: Cold Brew
You are reading S1 Episode 4: Cold Brew from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! In this 4th installment of The BoiseCoffee Podcast I talk about cold brew coffee – what it is, how you make it, and why it’s suddenly become a cultural phenomenon this summer. For a quick guide on brewing,...
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S1 Episode 3: Home Brewing
You are reading S1 Episode 3: Home Brewing from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Episode 3 of the BoiseCoffee Podcast centers around the five essentials for home brewing: A high quality burr grinder Freshly roasted, delicious coffee beans A way to brew Some type of water kettle A…
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S1 Episode 2: Coffee Waves
You are reading S1 Episode 2: Coffee Waves from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! This week’s episode of the BoiseCoffee Podcast centers around the three waves of coffee, starting in the 40s and moving through time until today. Also, if you like the audio clips that bookend the episode,...
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S1 Episode 1: Let’s Order Coffee
You are reading S1 Episode 1: Let’s Order Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! I’m super excited to announce the brand-new hot-off-the-press BoiseCoffee Podcast! After much deliberation, I’ve decided that Podcasting is too fun to pass up. These short-form (usually 15-45 min)...
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Coffee Canon have?
Coffee Canon currently has 41 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Coffee Canon about?
Part investigative storytelling, part historical commentary, Coffee Canon contextualizes coffee’s long journey from obscure plant to modern necessity.
How often does Coffee Canon release new episodes?
Coffee Canon has 41 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to Coffee Canon?
You can listen to Coffee Canon on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Coffee Canon?
Coffee Canon is created and hosted by Colin Mansfield.
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