AA Café Podcast

In the Volcan region of Panama, on the "world's largest Gesha estate," Steve Holt of Ninety Plus takes us on a tour of the farm.  Brian Franklin of DoubleShot Coffee Company and Mark Brown of Argentfork provide commentary in the AA Cafe Fancast studio.  Steve and Brian talk about what's going on in Panama and what we can expect out of the Gesha this year, as well as what we can look forward to tasting out of Ethiopia.  Thanks also to Paul Bowman of Bowman Lodge for his bird calling expertise.

In the Volcan region of Panama, on the "world's largest Gesha estate," Steve Holt of Ninety Plus takes us on a tour of the farm.  Brian Franklin of DoubleShot Coffee Company and Mark Brown of Argentfork provide commentary in the AA Cafe Fancast studio.  Steve and Brian talk about what's going on in Panama and what we can expect out of the Gesha this year, as well as what we can look forward to tasting out of Ethiopia.  Thanks also to Paul Bowman of Bowman Lodge for his bird calling expertise.

Extraction! Chris Girouard of Girouard Vines, which produces Tulsa Deco Wines (www.TulsaWine.com), gave me a tour of his facilities and told me all about his father's 45 years of work producing a new grape variety, and his work in making that grape into wine. You don't want to miss this. Mark Brown of ArgentFork (www.ArgentFork.com) and Brian Franklin of DoubleShot Coffee Company (www.DoubleShotCoffee.com) weigh in on the parallels with coffee and try to understand the complexities of extraction. Special thanks to Matt Sanders of Vintage 1740 (www.Vintage1740.com) for his cocktail expertise and to Reid Anderson (www.custommade.com/by/reid-eric-anderson) for sharing his experience in Panama.

Mark Brown and I continue to discuss the shape of things. This time I interview Chris Large of Eco Vino Wines, and he tells us about how the shape of wine glasses affect our wine drinking experience and why certain wines are in certain shaped bottles. Of course, I relate it all back to the vessels in which we serve coffee. Thanks also to Natalie Legener from Tulsa Glass Blowing Studio.

One of Tulsa's greatest musicians and most interesting persons, Brian Haas from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey tells us about the way shape affects sound and taste and how the five senses work together to give us each a unique experience. Mark Brown and I talk about how it all relates to coffee.

Jason Perry of JasonPerryPhotography.com tells us about how cameras work and I try to understand them by relating it all back to coffee. Mark Brown, writer and editor and publisher of the Argent Fork quarterly helps us get through it all. And of course, it's all brought to you by DoubleShotCoffee.com.

Mark Brown and I ramble about about my many travels, coffees I found along the way, some advice about coffee, a little info about Costa Rican micro-lots and the Gesha variety. And much, much more...

Jonathan Showman in his debut podcast. We talk about making coffee while you're traveling. With a little audio from my road trip to Moab. And a live demo on how to make coffee when all you have is coffee beans and water.

Garth and I talk passion. What is passion? Are you passionate? Am I? I interview Father Kastl of the Diocese of Tulsa and Mark Brown of the Tulsa World and Argentfork. A priest and a wordsmith. More about motivations than coffee, but I thought it was an interesting listen. Don't miss the 7th Birthday of the DoubleShot Coffee Company March 5, 2011.

Michael Feamster! It's Michael's last podcast... at least for a while. He's off to Spain for school. But before he leaves, I wrangled him into recording another podcast, where we talk about weather. How weather affects coffee at the farm level. We discuss a bit of my last trip to Colombia, and Michael's upcoming trip.

Garth and I start off a new era of AA Cafe podcasting talking about expensive coffees. Nekisse, La Minita, El Boton Natural and Las Animas Natural, Aricha and Beloya, Geisha, Kona, JBM... I got a great interview with Joseph Brodsky of Ninety Plus. Thanks to him and all the people who helped with our new AA Cafe intro.

This is it. I have the answer. Well, I have a hypothesis anyway. We discuss. Threaded throughout are conversations with Isaiah, with Michael, and with Gabe from Oren's Daily Roast in NYC. Grab yourself a pbr, sit back, and listen.