61 episodes

A behind the scenes look at what goes into making one of the world's favorite beverages. Lucia is a former winemaker turned coffee processing specialist. She consults with coffee growers and producers all over the world giving her a unique perspective into the what it takes to get a coffee from a seed to your cup.

Making Coffee with Lucia Solis Lucia

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    • 4.8 • 53 Ratings

A behind the scenes look at what goes into making one of the world's favorite beverages. Lucia is a former winemaker turned coffee processing specialist. She consults with coffee growers and producers all over the world giving her a unique perspective into the what it takes to get a coffee from a seed to your cup.

    #60: Thermoshock, Where Does Citrus Flavor Come From & How To Find Your Fermentation Soulmate

    #60: Thermoshock, Where Does Citrus Flavor Come From & How To Find Your Fermentation Soulmate

     In this listener Q&A episode we talk about:
    How to use ThermoshockDoes drying pull sugar out of the seed?What labels are important on a coffee bag?How do I prepare my coffee?How to know if you've hit "The One" on a fermentation trialHow do citrus flavors get into coffee?How did a coffee from Panama fool a listener into thinking it came from Ethiopia?

    RESOURCES
    Inquiries about coffee samples or future Fermentation Training Camps: info.luxiacoffee@gmail.com

    https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/11/13/1920 for
    Effect of Six Lactic Acid Bacteria Strains on Physicochemical Characteristics, Antioxidant Activities and Sensory Properties of Fermented Orange Juices
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740002021000538 for Production of volatile compounds by wild-type yeasts in a natural olive-derived culture medium

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    Cover Art by: Nick Hafner
    Into song: Elijah Bisbee

    • 49 min
    #59: What's Altitude Got To Do With It? Microbes & Meters Above Sea Level

    #59: What's Altitude Got To Do With It? Microbes & Meters Above Sea Level

    In this new episode I talk about:
    A review of how dry process and wet process are differenthow microbes get into our fermentationsWhat I look for in a coffee label, 4 key elementshow I’ve changed my mind about descriptive processing labelsstudies showing contradictory results when they look at altitude in different countries.

    The Altitude of Coffee Cultivation Causes Shifts in the Microbial Community Assembly and Biochemical Compounds in Natural Induced Anaerobic Fermentations

    RESOURCES
    Inquiries about coffee samples or future Fermentation Training Camps: info.luxiacoffee@gmail.com

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    Cover Art by: Nick Hafner
    Into song: Elijah Bisbee

    • 41 min
    #58: Direct Trade & Other Misleading Labels w/ Natali from Nachteulen Coffee

    #58: Direct Trade & Other Misleading Labels w/ Natali from Nachteulen Coffee

    In this new episode with Natali we talk about:
    Growing up in a coffee producing country, but finding coffee later in lifeFalling into the specialty coffee rabbit holeThe challenges of running a small business while keeping full time jobsDirect trade, fair trade and single originHow Natali chooses what information to put on her roasted coffee bagsWhy Decaf is important for night owls & coffee loversEducating new marketsRESOURCES
    Inquiries about coffee samples or future Fermentation Training Camps: info.luxiacoffee@gmail.com

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    To connect with Natali:
    Instagram
    Website
    Cover Art by: Nick Hafner
    Into song: Elijah Bisbee

    • 49 min
    #57: Will Frith Solves Terroir & Other Lessons From Vietnam

    #57: Will Frith Solves Terroir & Other Lessons From Vietnam

    You cannot utter a sentence about Vietnam specialty coffee without including the name Will Frith.
     
    In this new episode we talk about:
    Will’s journey from a coffee purist to being more reasonableMeeting people where they areThe importance of a middle class to support a new coffee categoryWill’s rule of thumb for cheap coffeeWhat he drinks in the morningBeing careful to not bring a western mindset to VietnamFrench occuption and the resulting mash-up cultureRESOURCES
    Inquiries about coffee samples or future Fermentation Training Camps: info.luxiacoffee@gmail.com

    Vietnam: A New Vocabulary Video

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    Cover Art by: Nick Hafner
    Into song: Elijah Bisbee

    • 1 hr 1 min
    #56: Finding Work/Life Balance as a Coffee Producer w/ Pranoy Thipaiah from Kerehaklu in India

    #56: Finding Work/Life Balance as a Coffee Producer w/ Pranoy Thipaiah from Kerehaklu in India

    Today I bring you a long overdue second conversation with Pranoy from Kerehaklu in India. His first appearance on the podcast was EP#34 in May 2021
    I have been wanting to catch up with Pranoy for more than 2 years, and after spending a week together processing coffee and learning we were able to sit down in Jakarta after the intense week of FTC and talk. 
    In this new episode we talk about:
    How he has found new markets to export his coffeeAdvice for producers attending coffee Expos like SCA and MICEThe impact of climate change on his farm, including the changing monsoon season.His approach to biodiversity.How Covid revived an interest in Indian farm lifeThe lingering prejudices of the Indian caste systemHow Australian culture has influenced his life philosophyRESOURCES
    Inquiries about coffee samples or future Fermentation Training Camps: info.luxiacoffee@gmail.com

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    To connect with Pranoy:
    Pranoy's Instagram
    Kerehaklu Instagram
    Website
    Cover Art by: Nick Hafner
    Into song: Elijah Bisbee

    • 1 hr 17 min
    #55: Coffee Waste, A Feminine Approach, & Confident Processing–With Rani Mayasari

    #55: Coffee Waste, A Feminine Approach, & Confident Processing–With Rani Mayasari

    Today I bring you a conversation with an extraordinary producer: Rani from Java Halu in Indonesia. I do not use this word lightly. Rani is a truly exceptional person and my new coffee crush.
    I met her because she was the only woman who attended FTC Indonesia in June. Each previous FTC has been minimum 50% female, this is very important to me because so many coffee spaces are still very male dominated. 
    During our plan for FTC Indonesia, I handed over many of the logistics to the Bandung Coffee Exchange team. It was only after 23 tickets were sold that I looked at the roaster and saw 22 males and 1 female. 
    I thought this might make Rani a bit shy but I couldn’t have been more wrong.

    In this episode we talk about:
    How her past influences her presenthow she developed her business acumenturning waste into new moneycivet coffee without civetsthe contradiction of “specialty wet-hulled” coffeewhy women are important to the sucess of her businessthe importance of getting research out of the lab and into the farms
    RESOURCES
    Inquiries about coffee samples or future Fermentation Training Camps: info.luxiacoffee@gmail.com

    Support the show on Patreon  to join our live Discord hangouts, and get access to research papers, transcripts and videos.

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    To connect with Rani:
    Rani's Instagram
    Java Halu Instagram
    Website

    Leo and Lisa 
    Cover Art by: Nick Hafner
    Into song: Elijah Bisbee

    • 50 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
53 Ratings

53 Ratings

pdxjk ,

The conversation with Tom…

…was top notch. Every coffee marketer and copy writer should HAVE to listen to this discussion. And more arts and crafts at SCA, please.

Sweetmarias ,

Why didn’t I check out this podcast sooner?

To answer my title, I don’t know. I first heard of Lucia’s work in 2017 from Heleanna in Ethiopia. And it took me 6 years to listen to episode 1 ! The podcast is both very relatable, even while trying to make concepts I find fairly challenging more accessible. Lucia seems to really want people to get it, and I think that’s what makes someone a good teacher. Some of this is very provocative and makes a listener like me spin off different ideas, even opposing ones or to want to add something else to an issue I find missing … and to me that’s really the hallmark of good “content”. It activates the listener, provokes you to think about the ideas in to respond. and Lucia accommodates this dialogue through her Patreon dialogues where people can submit questions or be involved in a informal conversation. If you have an interest in coffee, in sensory science, or chemistry, I think you can approach this podcast from many directions and find it enriching. The way Lucia talks, shares information and opinion, and brings up her own experiences that can_or even contradict and complicate other parts of the message, only enrich the listening experience for me. I see another review where somebody criticizes this exact point, the fact she was a late comer to Coffee, and it was not that appealing to her, or that her podcast isn’t “sterile “ enough?!? . Well, I find those all to be the strong points of her work that she doesn’t generously shares here, and I suppose some reviews nullify themselves by their own choice of words. Lol.

Chris Deferio ,

Understanding and Real Passion

Lucia has consistently delivered not just information about the world of coffee processing but she ushers the listener into actually understanding the landscape of this important topic and creates at the kind of feeling all of us in coffee want to create in those we serve - deep appreciation for coffee and thirst to know more.

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