The Nomad Barista

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Jul 2024

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This is not a coffee podcast, at least not in the traditional sense, but in this show, we explore the lives and passions of people from all walks of life around the world who have nailed their niche, and how they integrate the love of coffee into their lifestyle. The Nomad Barista started as a project to uncover the stories, inspirations, and challenges of passionate coffee professionals all over the globe, and I'm now expanding from the blog and Youtube channel to share conversations through long-form podcast content!

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July 16, 202442 min

018 Season Finale: Exploring Turkish Coffee in Istanbul with Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi and Soy Türkiye

Brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠Wacaco⁠⁠⁠, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. In this episode, I visit Istanbul as a part of longer video series we shot and published in recent months. Here I sit down with Hakan Göney, the manager of iconic Turkish Coffee Brand, Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi, as well as Emir Ali Enç, the owner of Soy Türkiye which makes high end copper cezves and other traditional kitchen equipment. For those interested visuals that go along with these chats, The video series starts here: https://youtu.be/33zLmgE5QO0?si=e1NBUm1ikDmuZLvg Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / ⁠⁠https://www.brodievissers.com/⁠⁠ Patreon / ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

May 12, 202430 min

017 Nordic Coffee Fest – Coffee’s Global Trends and Cultural Traditions: What to preserve and what to let go…

Brought to you by ⁠⁠Wacaco⁠⁠, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. In this episode, I’m sharing a recording of a short talk I gave not too long ago at Nordic Coffee Fest in Sweden. The topic is one I’ve been exploring more and more lately and it is the Global Trends and Cultural Traditions of coffee around the world, and particularly how we can honour and preserve some of the things that made coffee what it is today, while we move forward as an industry. For those interested visuals that go along with the talk, I’ve uploaded the slides to my website so you can go take a look at your leisure here: https://www.brodievissers.com/resources/nordic-coffee-fest-slides Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / ⁠https://www.brodievissers.com/⁠ Patreon / ⁠https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

March 25, 202447 min

016 Oskar Garberg – Standout Coffee: Swedish Coffee Culture, Competition Style Coffees, Building Community, and Striving for Coffee Excellence

Oskar Garberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Standout Coffee in Stockholm along with Alexander Ruas. This episode is actually a repost from their podcast, making me the guest this time around, so we touch on how my journey into coffee was heavily linked with my love for skateboarding, cycling, and exploration in general. That said, I had a chance to ask Oskar some questions about their roastery, and we dive into a bit about coffee competitions, building community, coffee processing, and striving for excellence as a brand. Check out their podcast for more great interviews with other Coffeepreneurs, and take a peek at their web shop for a taste of we were drinking! Website / https://www.standoutcoffee.com/ IG / https://www.instagram.com/standoutcoffee/ Brought to you by Wacaco, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / https://www.brodievissers.com/ Patreon / https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

March 5, 202428 min

015 Alex Dantes-Smith: Nordic Coffee Fest, Creating Coffee Content, Marketing Strategies, and the Importance of Sales in the Industry

Alex Dantes-Smith is a coffee content creator, an esteemed salesman, and a good friend. We finally had a chance for a quick chat for the podcast during Nordic Coffee Fest in Gothenburg. When we met, he was working with Ember Mugs and now represents Fellow Products in Europe and beyond, so I was curious to pick his brain about his sales process in the coffee industry as well as his approach to making coffee content online. Links / https://www.instagram.com/alexdantessmith/ Brought to you by Wacaco, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / https://www.brodievissers.com/ Patreon / https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

February 16, 202457 min

014 Alex Kitain – The Coffeevine: From Café Blog to Global Subscription of the World’s Best Roasters

Alex Kitain is the owner of The Coffeevine coffee subscription, sending European and International coffees to over 60 countries every single month as well as Freshdrip, their line of coffee drip bags for hotels or travel. He shares his journey from starting a café blog over 10 years ago to starting his coffee subscription with roasters from around Europe and now around the world. The Coffeevine / https://www.instagram.com/thecoffeevine/ --- Brought to you by Wacaco, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. --- Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / https://www.brodievissers.com/ Patreon / https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

February 8, 202421 min

013 Karla Boza – Finca San Antonio Amatepec: A Coffee Producer’s Perspective, Challenges, and How Coffee Drinkers Can Connect Directly with the Supply Chain

Karla Boza is a coffee producer from El Salvador and brings her firsthand experience from their family farm, Finca San Antonio Amatepec. This short episode is a repost from a video chat we shared on Youtube 2 years ago. She shares the real challenges coffee producers face on a daily and yearly basis, from common misunderstandings about their work, the hard choices in crop management, focusing on quality over quantity in specialty coffee, and the importance of connecting directly with consumers. Karla / https://www.instagram.com/kbozaaa/ San Antonio Amatepec / https://www.instagram.com/sanantonioamatepec/ --- Brought to you by Wacaco https://www.wacaco.com/?aff=427, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. --- Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / https://www.brodievissers.com/ Patreon / https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

February 1, 202447 min

012 Yassir Raïs – Syra Coffee: From 1 to 43 Coffee Shops and Counting. Architecture, Design, and Making Specialty Coffee Accessible

Yassir Rais is the founder of Syra Coffee in Barcelona. He shares his story discovering specialty coffee while studying architecture in Paris, and how that led to later starting a coffee business in his home town of Barcelona. Syra has now scaled up to 43 coffee-to-go locations across Spain without franchising in the cities Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, San Sebastián, Sevilla, Girona, and Malaga. Syra Coffee / https://www.instagram.com/syracoffee/ --- Brought to you by ⁠Wacaco⁠, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. --- Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / https://www.brodievissers.com/ Patreon / https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

January 22, 20241 hr 10 min

011 Gabriel Navarro – Coffee Consultant: Advice for Café Owners, Toronto Coffee Scene, Influence on Soho House, and Learning from Mexico

Gabriel Navarro is a Toronto-based coffee consultant, and long-time friend of mine since my Toronto coffee days. He started his coffee career in Canada, working as a barista all over Toronto, and later consulting coffee businesses around the world including Soho House, Sorry Coffee, Tokyo Smoke, Tim Hortons, and even opening his chain of coffee shops in Toronto, Nava Social. We chat about what it means to be a coffee consultant in its different forms, the most important things to pay attention to when opening a café, and how to position yourself for success as a coffee professional, even from very early days in your career, and a range of other topics. --- Brought to you by ⁠Wacaco⁠, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. --- Gabriel Navarro / @gabrielnav Consulting / www.napoleonshat.com Mezcal / www.milha.co --- Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / https://www.brodievissers.com/ Patreon / https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

December 13, 20231 hr 45 min

010 Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood – Colonna Coffee: Business of Specialty Coffee, Views on Specialty Capsules, Water for Coffee, and Lifting Heavy Things

Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood is the author of in-depth coffee books Water for Coffee (2015) co-authored with Dr. Christopher H. Hendon of MIT, The Coffee Dictionary (2017), and ⁠The Business of Specialty Coffee (2023)⁠. Maxwell has also competed several times in the World Barista Championships, and is the founder of UK-based Roastery, Colonna Coffee, as well as Peak Water Filters for home brewing. Maxwell’s Instagram / ⁠https://www.instagram.com/mcolonnadashwood/ --- Brought to you by Wacaco, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. --- Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / https://www.brodievissers.com/ Patreon / https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers

November 9, 202328 min

009 Founder Stories from Mallorca: A Coffee Tour by Bike in the Mediterranean

Switching up the format a bit this episode! In December 2021, I biked around the island of Mallorca recording the best coffee stories I could find to put on Youtube. Here's a compilation of the chats I had with a handful of unique Coffeepreneurs, and if you want to see the visuals, check out my video HERE. Links to the people and places I visited: Jan Eric Schwarzer / Sa Mola 13 Catalina / Sa Bakery Sam Bollon / Cafe Legs Greg Schuler / Mistral Coffee --- Brought to you by ⁠Wacaco⁠, a brand of portable espresso makers that are completely hand-powered. I use their gear, including coffee brewers, hand grinders and scales on all my coffee adventures. --- Support My Coffee Adventures: Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/brodievissers/ Youtube / https://www.youtube.com/c/brodievissers Website / https://www.brodievissers.com/ Patreon / https://www.patreon.com/brodievissers