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S2 Episode 5: The Five Attempts to Ban Coffee

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Coffee brings people together. It encourages conversations, stimulates thought, and provokes epiphany. Everyone seems to agree with this – or do they?

It turns out that throughout history, not everyone has supported coffee or even believed it to be healthy. Sometimes these people have been motivated for political purposes. More often than not, however, fear of coffee, its effects, and those who popularize it, has been the chief reason people have attacked it.

In this episode, I talk about five instances where state and religious leaders fought to outlaw or ban coffee.

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S2 Episode 3: Coffee Flavors and Aromas

Coffee Flavors and Aromas

In this episode of The Boise Coffee Podcast I discuss coffee flavors and aromas, and how you can use the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel to put words to what you experience when you try a new coffee. You can see all three versions of the wheel below.

In January 2016 the SCAA came out with an updated wheel, as well as a full description of how and why they changed it.

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The Coffee Guy


 

The original SCAA Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel:

flavor-wheel

The 2014 Counter Culture Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel:

Counter Culture Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel

The 2016 SCAA updated Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel:

2016 SCAA Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel

S2 Episode 2: The History of Coffee Pt. 2 – “The Favorite Drink of the Civilized World”

The History of Coffee Pt. 2

In this follow up to The History of Coffee Part 1 I discuss how coffee made its way from Europe to the United States, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and beyond. Focusing in on the 17th-19th centuries, I tell the stories of key individuals who pushed coffee forward and made it the multi billion dollar industry it is.

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The Coffee Guy

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