Podcast

Deep dive into Mexico’s top coffee regions—Chiapas, Veracruz, and Oaxaca. Discover flavor profiles, organic farming traditions, and why Mexico leads the world in USDA certified organic coffee.

Exploration of Mexico’s Paradox of Fragility, from the ritual of Café de Olla to the 1989 collapse that forced smallholders into organic farming as a means of survival. It is...

This episode introduces the lumber grading analogy to better understand the Specialty Coffee Scoring System for evaluating coffees.  This distinction reveals that the high score validates the cup's flawlessness, but...

This episode explores the regional diversity (terroir) of Colombian specialty coffee by mapping the distinct flavor profiles of five regions (Huila, Nariño, Antioquia, Tolima, Sierra Nevada) across the country's three...

The episode is about Colombian coffee, its history, the intensive labor required for specialty coffee quality (the "paradox of plenty"), and the current threats to its future supply.

Journey to Costa Rica’s highest coffee-growing region Chirripó, where altitude, microclimates, and ethics converge. Discover how the country’s “liquid geography” create one of the world’s most complex and meaningful cups.

Ever grabbed a bag of Costa Rican coffee at the store and assumed you knew what you were getting? In Part 1 of this two-part journey, we shatter that myth....

Don shares a personal story from seminary days to illustrate why freshly roasted beans need to rest. The key is a process called degassing, where coffee releases CO2 for 24...

Welcome back to La Taza Habla, the podcast where we bring you 20 years of specialty coffee stories! In this insightful episode, we crack open the fascinating world of coffee processing and uncover how...

Travel with us through time to the birthplace of coffee in ancient Abysannia.