All Episodes

Guatemala's Inconvenient Truth, Part 2: Who does specialty serve?

Guatemala's Inconvenient Truth, Part 1: Whose land is it anyway?

Surrogates: Anything but the coffee

Mother Coffee: The history and heritage of Ethiopia's wild coffee forests

We Built This City…On Coffee: Hamburg and the making of Europe's coffee trade

Introducing: Series Three of A History of Coffee

Coffee Quality, Part 3: When the “quality” myth hits the farm

Coffee Quality, Part 2: How “quality” became a myth

Coffee Quality, Part 1: The birth of specialty coffee flavours

How specialty coffee woke up to water’s role in flavour

The two ingredients in water that ruin your coffee, and the ancient story behind them

Getting great water for coffee, step-by-step. Part 2: How to measure and treat your water

Getting great water for coffee, step-by-step. Part 1: Alkalinity, hardness and why it matters

Farm to port: why specialty costs more

Why one Colombian farmer chose specialty, and the other walked away

The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, part 2

The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, part 1

The Speed of Heat: How to roast more coffee, faster!

Coffee Roasting: How baby plant food transforms into delicious coffee flavours

Fruit juice or creamy almonds? Your guide to controlling cold brew flavors

Hot vs Cold: The science behind temperature and taste

Introducing: Season 3 of The Science of Coffee

Freshness and Grinding, Part 2: How grinders work deep inside

Freshness and Grinding, Part 1: Protecting your coffee’s flavours

What Is Good Science? Part 2: How to think like a scientist

What Is Good Science? Part 1: How to brew coffee like a scientist

Organic Coffee, Part 2: Why don’t we see more organic coffee farms?

Organic Coffee, Part 1: The magic of soil

Coffee Roasting, Part 2: Roasting made easy

Coffee Roasting, Part 1: How heat transforms coffee beans

Smell and Taste, Part 2: Are you and me tasting the same flavours?

Smell and Taste, Part 1: How to be a better coffee taster

Introducing: Season 2 of The Science of Coffee

4) Just Friends? America’s love affair with coffee

3) Espresso Lungo: The slow road to Italy’s democratic espresso culture

2) A Lasting Stain: Haiti, Colonialism and Coffee

1) It’s Just Coffee? How coffee houses changed the world

Introducing: Series Two of A History of Coffee

6) Sonic Seasoning

5) Latte Foam

4) Espresso Technology

3) Plant Genetics

2) Coffee Extraction

1) Water For Brewing Coffee

Introducing: The Science of Coffee

Coffee’s Ticking Time Bomb

Is really expensive coffee really worth it?

Coffee Cycle Saturdays

6) The Future of Coffee?

5) Desperately Seeking Sustainability

4) A Dark Bitter Powder

3) Coffee Catches Fire

2) Slavery, Suffering and Affordable Luxury

1) A Five Gun Salute to the Origins of Coffee

Introducing: A History of Coffee

A Girl on a Coffee Farm

Be careful what you dream (it may come true)

Venezuela

Stateless

Sofía

Aquiares

Tito, the Panamanian rebel

Amish

Berries and Lemon

Firefly

Asheville