2024's TOP POSTS
It was a BUSY year at Roast! West Coast. A look at our top posts of the year.
It was a BUSY year at Roast! West Coast. A look at our top posts of the year.

It isn’t surprising to me that people really enjoyed our conversation with James Harper of the Filter Stories podcast. Besides being a well-spoken sort, he has a soothing 1970’s newscaster voice to deliver his words!
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Both coffee professionals and coffee drinkers have been paying attention to the price of a cup of coffee. Early in the year we chatted with Alden Hozouri of Crossings Coffee about how a coffee shop develops their prices.
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Coffee in the woods with a bunch of rowdy-ish mountain bikers? Sign us up. Our most popular Bean Journal post of 2024 was our recap of the San Diego Mountain Bike Association’s Trail Fest at Mount Laguna.
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The Coffee People podcast’s mixtape A-side for January 2025. Stay tuned for the B-side.
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Go Get Em Tiger's CEO David Yardley shares their plans for Roasted At Origin, a new coffee program where producers also roast the coffee.
Ben Jones recaps the collaborative vibe at Roast Magazine's 2026 Roast Summit in Portland, OR.
Col Spirit's Andreas Tischendorf joins the podcast to chat about the logistics of working in a family business and bringing specialty Colombian coffee to the world.
Quail Street Coffee Roaster's Armando Cardenas joins the Coffee People podcast to talk about the double-edged sword that comes with jumping into a coffee roasting business without a net.