The Coffee Show with Kirk Pearson

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Pre Made Espresso Revolution Coming? With Matt Perger and Jeremy Challender of Barista Hustle.
Matt Perger and Jeremy Challender run Barista Hustle, an online coffee education provider that make comprehensive courses for people of any skill level in coffee to better their knowledge!In this episode of The Coffee Show, Matt, Jeremy and Kirk have just concluded a blind tasting that compared milk coffee that was made using freshly made espresso and espresso that had been made a day prior. The results were quite fascinating and might surprise you! Is the future of coffee pre made? Also, the guys talk about the state of coffee education, whether or not coffee is better than it was 10 years prior and what you can do to immediately improve the quality of your batch brew! Like this podcast? Leave a review and please tell two of your friends!
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Washed Coffees Are Back Baby!!! With Alex Moore
Alex Moore is the runner up of the Australian Brewers Cup and staff member at Project Zero Coffee. Alex was trained by Kirk and overachieved in his first season as a competitor. What was special about Alex routine is that he was the only competitor that used a washed coffee in the whole competition. In recent years, natural and experimental fermentations have dominated the Australian competition scene, this year Alex coffee was the highest scoring of the whole weekend despite coming second to the legendary Simon Gautherin! In this podcast Alex breaks down his entire competition prep, how the coffee was sourced, roasted, brewed and every other little detail. Plus, Project Zero Coffee is opening a second store soon and the concept is something that will be an amazing success, or a spectacular failure! Like this podcast? Leave a review and please tell two of your friends!
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Matt Winton and Sierra Yeo: Specialty Coffees Power Couple!
Matt Winton a World Brewers Cup Champion now residing in Switzerland. Sierra Yeo is a National Brewers Cup Champion (previously representing the UK) and recently won the Swiss Brewers Cup, meaning she will compete again at the World Brewers Cup in Brussels. Matt and Sierra are happily married and together run Rose Coffee Roasters, and internationally famed roastery that sells some of the highest quality and unique coffee the world has to offer. At Host Milan, Kirk, Sierra and Matt all linked up to record a podcast and touched on the quality that competition has reached recently. Plus, they all play an entertaining game of "he's a ten, she's a ten!"Like this podcast? Leave a review and please tell two of your friends!
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Nicole Battefeld and Vladyslav Demonenko: Home AI Coffee Machines and Germanys #1 Coffee Shop
Nicole Battcefeld is Germany's most awarded barista with multiple national championships to her name. These days she works as a consultant to Nunc, an AI powered home espresso machine that could potentially reshape coffee brewing at home. Vladyslav Demonenko is former Doctor from Ukraine who now resides in Berlin and owns Kolo Coffee, a coffee roaster that is gaining praise across europe for its quality and exceptional service at their flagship site in Berlin. In this podcast we discuss the European coffee scene, why Vlad chose coffee over being a doctor and of course AI super robot home coffee machines! Like this podcast? Leave a review and please tell two of your friends!
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Pitch Of The Century: How Paul Ross Sealed The Deal To Open Special Guests Coffee in London
Paul Ross is a UK barista champion and founder of Special Guests Coffee in London.On our recent Euro tour, Kirk stopped by Special Guests Coffee and was blown away, calling it the best coffee in the UK and he isn’t alone. Paul told a really interesting story about how he made coffee for the landlord which blew them away. It was that fateful decision of taking a flask of competition coffee to the pitch that helped him beat out others for a highly coveted space to open a coffee shop in a swanky part of London. Paul also talks about his hospitality philosophies and how new expensive gear is rarely on customers minds. Like this podcast? Leave a review and please tell two of your friends!
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