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Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries
Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries
James Harper

Coffee stories with an extra shot of history and science. Filter Stories is a podcast revealing coffee’s hidden microscopic secrets, its powerful... more

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Episodes

Freshness and Grinding, Part 1: Protecting your coffee's flavours

For your coffee to taste its best, it’s crucial you buy fresh roasts and grind fresh.….….Or maybe not. When I began... more

22 Apr 2024 · 49 minutes
What Is Good Science? Part 2: How to think like a scientist

In the last episode, I discovered that rinsing my Chemex filter papers was a waste of time! As a result... more

08 Apr 2024 · 55 minutes
What Is Good Science? Part 1: How to brew coffee like a scientist

Should you rinse your filter paper before making a filter coffee? Almost everybody in coffee internet says you should. But what... more

25 Mar 2024 · 46 minutes
Organic Coffee, Part 2: Why don't we see more organic coffee farms?

Farming coffee organically is amazing because soils are more alive, birds and insects are more plentiful, farmers avoid getting sick... more

13 Mar 2024 · 41 minutes
Organic Coffee, Part 1: The magic of soil

The world’s farming soils are deteriorating quickly.Conventional coffee farming where plants are grown using agrochemicals allowed farmers to reap huge... more

26 Feb 2024 · 38 minutes
Coffee Roasting, Part 2: Roasting made easy

Roasting coffee can be maddening. Just 4° Celsius is enough to make the same green beans taste distinctly different! And... more

12 Feb 2024 · 46 minutes
Coffee Roasting, Part 1: How heat transforms coffee beans

What flavours do you want from your coffee?Every coffee bean begins its life green. And if you brewed it up... more

29 Jan 2024 · 37 minutes
Smell and Taste, Part 2: Are you and me tasting the same flavours?

Ever wonder why you and your friends can taste the same coffee, but you can’t agree on the flavour notes?... more

15 Jan 2024 · 39 minutes
Smell and Taste, Part 1: How to be a better coffee taster

So you’ve just taken a sip of a very rare coffee, and flavours of passion fruit explode in your mouth.But... more

08 Jan 2024 · 44 minutes
Introducing: Season 2 of The Science of Coffee

We're back with another series of The Science of Coffee!Across 10 science stories, narrative audio producer and coffee professional James... more

02 Jan 2024 · 2 minutes
4) Just Friends? America's love affair with coffee

America is coffee-obsessed. From Central Perk’s red couch being the centre of major plot twists in Friends to the fact... more

29 May 2023 · 44 minutes
3) Espresso Lungo: The slow road to Italy's democratic espresso culture

One morning back in the ‘80s, Howard Schultz walks out of his Milan hotel, stumbles into an espresso bar, and... more

15 May 2023 · 44 minutes
2) A Lasting Stain: Haiti, Colonialism and Coffee

Haiti was once the biggest, most profitable coffee growing region in the world. But today Haiti is one of the... more

01 May 2023 · 47 minutes
1) It's Just Coffee? How coffee houses changed the world

A coffee shop is a lot more than just a place to drink coffee. The seats and sofas encourage you... more

17 Apr 2023 · 45 minutes
Introducing: Series Two of A History of Coffee

We're back with more stories about the tiny psychoactive seed that changed the world and continues to shape our lives... more

03 Apr 2023 · 5 minutes
6) Sonic Seasoning

Imagine you’ve got a cup of coffee in front of you. You haven’t tasted it yet. You therefore don’t know... more

31 Jan 2023 · 53 minutes
5) Latte Foam

When was the last time you picked up a cappuccino with a mountain of foam perched on top? Maybe these... more

17 Jan 2023 · 43 minutes
4) Espresso Technology

A good espresso is a sublime experience: rich, sweet, and wonderfully caffeinated. But, who woke up one morning and thought... more

03 Jan 2023 · 42 minutes
3) Plant Genetics

How can you make better coffee at home? Well, an easy way is to buy higher quality beans. But, I’m... more

22 Nov 2022 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
2) Coffee Extraction

How you brew your coffee dramatically affects what you taste. And I do mean dramatic! Brewing up the same bag... more

08 Nov 2022 · 53 minutes
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How can you make better coffee at home? Well, an easy way is to buy higher quality beans. But, I’m concerned this... more