2x German Coffee Roasting Champion | Intervie...

Ever brewed a coffee that looked perfect and still tasted disappointing? Roast Rebels founder Ingo walks through the real reason: the green coffee bean itself, not the roasting machine, is the single biggest factor behind how your cup tastes.This episode is a deep dive into the s ...  Show more

Four sample roasters go head-to-head on the same coffee, and only a blind cupping decides the winner. Ingo lines up the Ikawa, the Roest L200 Ultra, the Kaffelogic Nano7 and the Nucleus LINK, roasts one washed Colombia on each machine using nothing but its out-of-the-box profile, ...  Show more

Scott Conary leader of Carborro Coffee Roasters considers the pursuit of quality as the ultimate answer to all business questions. This episode is chock full of coffee cherries pun intended. Learn how to roast coffee and what makes some roasters elite. In this episode: The World ...  Show more

Roasting coffee can be maddening. Just 4° Celsius is enough to make the same green beans taste distinctly different! And there are so many things roasters can play around with: temperature, time, fan speed, drum speed, types of probes…the list goes on and on. So, if you want to s ...  Show more

Time for a Coffee Break! We reflect on our chat with Samurai Shin and his unique journey from snowboarder to latte artist. Plus, it’s time to unpack the results from the 2025 World Coffee Championships in Geneva… this year was one for the books. And finally: What coffee tool won ...  Show more

Today we’re joined by latte art champion Shinsaku Fukayama, also known as Samurai Shin! We discuss his journey from Japan to Melbourne, moving to Australia with limited English and even more limited coffee knowledge. Shin tells his story, working his way up in the Melbournian ran ...  Show more