In this first installment for 2024, I dig a little deeper into certified organic coffees. Should the industry care about certified organic coffee? Should consumers care? What role or roles can organic coffee play in ethical consumption? ------------------------------------- My newest coffee is from Oaxaca, Mexico and it's a chocolate-bomb! Check it out: Shop.OilSlickCoffee.com/products/mexico-oaxaca ..read more

This episode gives a very brief re-cap of my journey through coffee from Virginia, to Singapore, to Indonesia then to Portland and where Oil Slick is headed next. ------------------------------------- The online shop is life! Browse all available coffees at Shop.OilSlickCoffee.com ..read more

This episode compares a new program in Nigeria to a successful program from Colombia to develop local markets for coffee. ------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, you can find more content like it on my YouTube channel. Check it out ..read more

This week I take a deeper dive into the economics of local consumption and how it might affect the local, specialty coffee industry. Graphs available at the episode homepage. ------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, you can find more content like it on my YouTube channel. Check it out ..read more

How Brazil's co-ops could disrupt the specialty coffee market. ------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, you can find more content like it on my YouTube channel. Check it out ..read more

In this episode I dive deeper into synthetic coffee and what impacts it might have on smallholder coffee producers who are already struggling in a challenging, globalized coffee industry. ------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, you can find more content like it on my YouTube channel. Check it out ..read more

In this report, I discuss two articles that talk about the very high end of specialty coffee and how these unique coffees benefit the industry as a whole and producers in particular. ------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, you can find more content like it on my YouTube channel. Check it out ..read more

This article was written in 2020 and was part of my development of the Central Dogma of Coffee. I was mainly addressing the argument that roasters take more than their fair share of profits from farmers, an assertion I feel is invalid. ------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, you can find more content like it on my YouTube channel. Check it out ..read more

I sat down with Ted Fischer and we talked about his book Making Better Coffee as well as many things related to value and values in the coffee industry. We had a great conversation and I hope you’ll enjoy it as well. ------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, you can find more content like it on my YouTube channel. Check it out ..read more

I wrote the article in 2022, but first started developing the idea in 2018. The central dogma describes the fundamental process of converting the seeds of a coffee tree into a cup of coffee. ------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, you can find more content like it on my YouTube channel. Check it out ..read more