Coaches of 2 World Barista Champions 🏆🏆 Conversations with the producers, competitors and founders behind specialty coffee. We've competed in specialty coffe…
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Guest: Francisco Altieri
In this episode, we sit down with Francisco Altieri of Altieri Specialty Coffees in Boquete, Panama. Francisco won the Best of Panama Varietal category with a yellow-coloured wild accession that was discovered on his own farm.
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Follow the story that goes all the way back to winning the 2024 Japanese Barista Championship 伊藤大貴 With more than a year to train for the World Championship, Hiroki decides to challenge himself to the 2025 Japanese Barista Championship, two weeks before he competed at the 2025 World Barista Championship... In between, he was hospitalized.
Topics: JBC 2024 · Panama · Calgary · JBC 2025 · Milan · Calibration Day 1
35:55851 views · 1mo ago · 35:55
Nature lovers rejoice, this conversation is the peak of producing specialty coffee in harmony with the Earth Deep in a 162-hectare cloud forest reserve in Chiriquí, Panama, Jeffrey Dietrich has spent years learning that the healthiest coffee doesn't come from controlling nature, it comes from working inside it.
50:331K views · 2mo ago · 50:33
Guests: Pioneering Wildynamic Panama Geisha, Karin de la Rosa
"A living conversation between fruit, forest, climate and countless microorganisms." An approach like none-other, Longboard Coffee is celebrated around the world. Noemi Montenegro is the second generation of Longboard Coffee, working the business and the farms - Misty Mountain, Windy Ridge and Fennario - with her family.
Topics: Farm and terroir overview · Defining wild dynamics · Human touch and terroir · Regional and cultural impact · Quality and production philosophy · Brand history and heritage
56:48620 views · 2mo ago · 56:48
A fascinating conversation for anyone interested in the history of coffee in Panama and genetic research and development Gissell operates Garrido Specialty Coffee, overseeing numerous different farms amongst the beautiful landscapes of Boquete and Baru.
Topics: Margarita farm tour · Cana and farm management · Volcanito and farm layout · Los Rosales experimental · Production philosophy · Geisha and Mokkita
56:17559 views · 2mo ago · 56:17
Easily one of the most exciting young coffee producers at the moment, José Luis is putting top quality coffee into the marketplace, from Chiriqui, Panama. In this conversation, you can hear how José Luis was inspired by his grandfather to start to plant and produce Geisha Coffee and in just a few short years, ended up landing amongst the top rankings of the Best of Panama.
Topics: Farm expansion and strategy · The philosophy of terroir · Processing innovations · Differentiation and market impact · Expanding varietal offerings · The journey into specialty coffee
1:11:03521 views · 2mo ago · 1:11:03
Guest: Ricardo Koyner
In this episode, we sit down with Ricardo Koyner, the 1st president of the Specialty Coffee Association of Panama upon it's inauguration in 1996 and now the current president in 2026, the year that marks the 30th Anniversary.
Topics: Business transformation · Coffee industry challenges · Association formation · The importance of quality · Building market connections · Evolution of processing
1:06:33639 views · 3mo ago · 1:06:33
Guest: Wilford Lamastus Jr
In this episode, we sit down with Wilford Lamastus Jr, the fourth generation of Lamastus Family Estates, a 3 x Panamanian Brewers Cup Champion and founder of Sisu Coffee Studios This conversation takes us through the in's and out's of a legacy family business that dates back more than 100 years and is focused on quality and raising the bar for specialty coffee and Geisha coffee
Topics: Growing up on the farm · Family legacy and evolution · Father's influence and drive · Personal drive and ambition · Founding Sisu Coffee Studio · Competing in Brewers Cup
1:37:16932 views · 3mo ago · 1:37:16
Celebrated globally as a visionary in specialty coffee production, Hunter Tedman is designing coffee farms in a way that is breaking the historical norms in our industry - an architect of advanced agricultural systems to grow incredible coffees.
Topics: Daily life of a coffee farmer · Managing roles and field time · Agronomy and family legacy · Global coffee farming insights · The history of Boquete coffee · Becoming a coffee producer
1:33:242.2K views · 3mo ago · 1:33:24
"Specialty Coffee is a coffee produced on one farm, by one obsessive compulsive coffee farmer" Price Peterson is celebrated as one of the most influential figures in the Special Coffee Industry - having re-discovered Geisha on his family farm, Hacienda La Esmeralda
Topics: Farm history and transition · Growth of the dairy business · Diversifying into coffee · Specialty coffee movement · Quality education and SCAP · Stumbling upon Geisha
1:32:40763 views · 4mo ago · 1:32:40
Guest: Coffee's Most Relentless Experimenter
Finca Nuguo is fresh off of winning the 2026 World Brewers Cup Championship by Nas Jaafar of Malaysia Pocho Gallardo has a cult following for the way he meticulously produces his globally celebrated Panama Geisha - winning the Best of Panama and numerous global competitions, many times over.
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