This episode of #CoffeeProtocolPodcast we talk about Jaseem and his journey towards winning the Title of “Indian Barista Champion -2023", but also about struggles, anxiety, pressure and stress during the coffee championship. We talk about coffee culture and the start of Jaseem's dream to win the title. We also talk about Blue Tokai Coffee, Santosh from Thirdwave, Mithilesh the preceding Champion, Suhas, Sandra, Hrishikesh, Bhavnish of Coffee Genetics, James Hoffman, Lance Handricks and of course National Barista championship, and WBC. Ninedotcoffee- A name you would have heard or come across ..read more

Hello everyone, and welcome back, to Season 4 of our Coffee Protocol Podcast. First of all, lots of love to everyone that we are here. Its been a bumpy ride, (but so are all the adventurous rides ). A lil while ago I had gone to attend this Food & Beverage Expo called as "Ahaar" in Delhi, at Pragati Maidan, apparently the biggest of such sort that happens in India. Coffee is a big deal here, as lot of coffee and roasting machine and coffee equipment suppliers, roasters, consultants and syrup and packaging companies and lot many (associated to running a cafe) come to this Expo. I thought it ..read more

Tasing can be as simple or as complicated as you can make it ! Yes it isn't difficult to start with, but yes some practice will make you get into the groove and make it interesting for yourself. Coffee Cupping is getting quite famous and also trendy, but then the roots of the same is based on something we basically don't mention in current days (or seldom do). Also even you are not a certified taster (or professional) you can still taste coffees and be pretty good at it. The key is very simple/basic. Listen to the episode to know more. Keeping in the vibe of this espresso edition, it's a very ..read more

Did a few Espresso Shot Series some time back. That means, Short, sweet, packed with a lot of flavours (information) and yummy (just like the espresso I served during my National Barista Championship Finals - recently :D )  Mini Coffee Episodes... to get through quickly but with loads of information.  Hope you like them.  ..read more

Kathyayini Muddaiah & Rakhee Vishwanath, are the two amazing young ladies that power up @unakki_Coffee_Collective. So here is the scene, Kathyayini, Rakhee and I were in the Car, on our way to @bluetokai Koramangla, (with @itsonlycoffeebaby)  this was for the public cupping of the new harvest from producers doing specialty coffee processing for the first time. While we were in the car, we had recorded this episode. So it honestly seems like a really nice, honest conversation between us, in the car. If you plug into your earphones close your eyes, you can technically seat next to me in ..read more

A Family residing in the city, move into a Coffee farm and started making some really good coffee. Meet the family behind ĀnaiKādu Nisha , Kurian, Anaika & Bella. How their life came to a crossroad, that led them to the world of coffee, and eventually into #specialtycoffee. New into this side of coffee, processing coffees for the first time, from being not sure enough to being nervous on how the community would react to the coffee, to actually selling all their specialty processed coffee (sooner than they expected). This is an incredible story of how a (relatively small) coffee farm holder ..read more

I have had the pleasure of meeting a few women coffee producers, but meeting someone who runs the entire coffee farm and managing its work, and getting her on my podcast was the first for me. Meet Pranathi Shetty, she currently owns and runs "Kolli Berri" coffee farm by herself along with her mother-in-law.  I met her a year ago (virtually) for a prospective work that we planned to do, but sadly that couldn't happen, but I was pleased to meet her IRL for the first time too last year. I knew i wanted to get her on this podcast at some point, to get her take and share her story. She is a 'B ..read more

HO! HO! HO!  Ep 9 is OUT! This latest episode is an amazing conversation with Raghunath from Aramse Coffee. We had thought of doing something together for a long time, and then after a loooong time, we recorded this episode. This episode got recorded sometime back and finally I was able to release it today, which happens to be Christmas. So this fits perfectly as a podcast you can listen to while on your holiday break. Trust me when I say this is a fun episode, busting a lot myths, talking about James Hoffman, the mighty Indian Filter coffee !, other brands too. Decolonising the flavor wh ..read more

All the way from NAGALAND!  I have been holding off to edit this episode for a very long time. Gor a lot of reasons; 1. This episode is clsoe to my heart, the experience that i had in Nagaland with @atsi @dili & @lichan was beyond amazing. I did not record the podcast with Dili and Atsi (yet), but I do want to share their unique and amazing stories too. This Episode is about @lichan and everything behind @etecoffee based in Kohima, Nagaland. If you have not been there, trust me on it and just go! You will not be disappointed or regret it EVER. Everything about Nagaland, the people, th ..read more

Round Table Coffee Bakch*D (talk) One of my dreams was to do this, a podcast session (multiple over a year), where multiple people from different walks of life talk about coffee (casually), and a total free (non interview format) conversation. This is Raw, unedited, no script, just honest and (almost) free conversations between people who are a coffee consumer at heart first and friends (Second). I wanted to call it Round Table Coffee Bakchod, cause of one main reason, to make it sound not serious, i think we have taken Coffee too seriously, and thats what the first half of the name suggests ..read more