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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 Gettysburg. But, in fact, the thing Civil War Soldiers journaled about more than anything else was coffee. War has a way of making people appreciate … Continue reading Episode Ten: Warfare and Coffee Part One – The Civil War → The post Episode Ten: Warfare and Coffee Part One – The Civil War appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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, but bears a striking resemblance to modern artisan coffee shops. The Double R Coffee House was ahead of its time, and its owners … Continue reading Episode Nine: The Double R Coffee House → The post Episode Nine: The Double R Coffee House appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 consisting of 73 individual flavors. Cafes today focus not just on profit margins, but on growing standards and fair wages for farmers. Baristas take … Continue reading Episode Eight: Modern Coffee Culture → The post Episode Eight: Modern Coffee Culture appeared first on Boise 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 coffee from a novelty to a commodity happened because of the Dutch. On this episode of Coffee Canon, we explore the stories and people … Continue reading Episode Seven: Dutch Coffee → The post Episode Seven: Dutch Coffee appeared first on Boise 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. It’s the world’s oldest brewing technique – surviving military coups, government bans, and industry monopolies. It’s unfiltered, strong, and unlike … Continue reading Episode Six: Turkish Coffee → The post Episode Six: Turkish Coffee appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 Christmas Carol forgiving debts, or your local church donating money to a worthy cause, there’s something about the Holiday season that propels people to give. Last week, just before Christmas, … Continue reading Episode Five: Season of Giving (ft. Nate Westwick from Wild Goose Coffee Roasters) → The post Episode Five: Season of Giving (ft. Nate Westwick from Wild Goose Coffee Roasters) appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 traditions they come with. We’re focusing on three drinks in particular: the Pharisee, the Tom and Jerry, and Irish … Continue reading Episode Four: Holiday Drinks → The post Episode Four: Holiday Drinks appeared first on Boise 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 in the air. Fermentation is an integral part of the way we process coffee as well, but because of function – not taste. What … Continue reading Episode Three: Fermenting Coffee → The post Episode Three: Fermenting Coffee appeared first on Boise 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 inventors, businesspeople, and visionaries who saw coffee not for what it currently was, but for what it could be. In this episode … Continue reading Episode Two: Italian Coffee → The post Episode Two: Italian Coffee appeared first on Boise 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 world adopted – but it wasn’t always this way. We study how and why Japan went from rejecting coffee … Continue reading Episode One: Japanese Coffee → The post Episode One: Japanese Coffee appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 made sense. I tried a variety of different formats for the show including … Continue reading Introducing Coffee Canon → The post Introducing Coffee Canon appeared first on Boise 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 hotel rooms and grocery store aisles across the world – it may have even helped the U.S. win a war. This week’s … Continue reading S3 Episode 3: The Impact of Instant Coffee → The post S3 Episode 3: The Impact of Instant Coffee appeared first on Boise 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 how Irish Coffee made it into mainstream culture is well worth hearing. This episode of The Boise Coffee Podcast is … Continue reading S3 Episode 2: The History of Irish Coffee → The post S3 Episode 2: The History of Irish Coffee appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 coffee when you’re visiting a new city. Here’s a quick rundown of those tips: Do your research. Try Googling the name … Continue reading S3 Episode 1: Cities And Their Coffee Cultures → The post S3 Episode 1: Cities And Their Coffee Cultures appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 Coffee Day! This week’s episode discusses each of the holidays, as well as some of the defining moments of BoiseCoffee.org over its history. Show notes: Find out more about International … Continue reading S2 Episode 16: International Podcast/Coffee Day → The post S2 Episode 16: International Podcast/Coffee Day appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 Milan, and we learned a lot about Italian coffee culture as we went. At the end of our trip Hannah and I sat down … Continue reading S2 Episode 15: Italian Coffee ft. Hannah Mansfield → The post S2 Episode 15: Italian Coffee ft. Hannah Mansfield appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 to work. In this episode we dive headlong into the world of to-go coffee by looking at the story of Leslie Buck and his famous Anthora Cup. … Continue reading S2 Episode 14: We Are Happy To Serve You → The post S2 Episode 14: We Are Happy To Serve You appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 the creative process in general; artists, writers, and other creatives will be able to identify with the struggles and successes … Continue reading S2 Episode 13: One Year Podcasting → The post S2 Episode 13: One Year Podcasting appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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, and the presentation of a cup of coffee or espresso, the better the end product will be. The ingredients of a cup of … Continue reading S2 Episode 12: Developing Latte Art & Perfecting Espresso → The post S2 Episode 12: Developing Latte Art & Perfecting Espresso appeared first on Boise Coffee.

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 wild, and now it’s cultivated. In previous episodes I’ve covered the history of coffee, showing that individual people were … Continue reading S2 Episode 11: Coffee Production → The post S2 Episode 11: Coffee Production appeared first on Boise Coffee.