The coffee world has been turned upside down since the COVID pandemic. Delivery delays, high coffee prices, and challenges for producers, traders, and roasters. Added to that, frost and drought in Brazil, nothing is as it was just a short while ago. This podcast is intended to be a compass for everyone in the coffee industry to navigate the coming months.
In this episode, I look back at everything we've discussed in this podcast. I'll pick out highlights from the conversations and add my own thoughts.
What next?
This podcast will start a new round in early summer: the focus will be on the future of coffee – Coffea Futurica.
Thank you for the lively discussions, the input and for listening.
We hear each other.
"Specialty coffee is neither a protected term nor a badge of honor to rest on. Rather, specialty coffee is a mission to make things better. And that means getting everyone involved. Just as the SCAE at least once thought in its early days: from seed to cup."
"As long as we help keep coffee production going, we buy more coffee, pay more, and do more and more to make coffee even better, then we are not really helping those who grow coffee, but actually only ourselves."
"We've spoken with Kleber several times at Kaffeemacher:innen. And I'm always impressed by how naturally he can say things that others can't. He can do this because he works according to principles, and has done so for decades. And especially in uncertain times like these, it pays off. So: for all roasters, this means that stable partnerships are always better in an emergency. And usually anyway."
