Coffee Smarter: Water! Recap.

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Guest: Siri Simran Khalsa
Role: Executive Director of Coffee
From: Lofty Coffee Company, Southern California
Instagram: @loftycoffeeco & @sdcoffeenetwork
Website: www.loftycoffee.com

Guest: Chris O’Brien, Coffee Cycle Roasting
Role: Founder & Head Roaster
From: Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA
Instagram: @coffeecycleroasting
Website: www.coffeecycleroasting.com

This is a special coffee smarter recap episode. I’m out of town acting as a guest barista at Trail Fest, a San Diego Mountain Biking Association fundraiser and campout here in Southern California. I planned on taking the week off, but while I was hosting an event last weekend, a listener said, “I wish you’d do a show about water.”

Which got me confused because I was pretty sure that I had. I came home, checked the archive, and you know what…I was right! We’ve done two water-heavy episodes on this show, including the second coffee smarter session, way back in season 1!

But we have new listeners now and a lot of content in the archives. Instead of taking the week off completely, I cut together this episode featuring conversations with Chris O’Brien of Coffee Cycle Roasting and Siri Simran Khalsa of Lofty Coffee.

In the first, with Chris, we cover basic topics like how hot water should be, what ratio of water to the coffee grinds we should use, and so on. In the second, with Siri, we go deeper into what is happening in the coffee blooming phase of brewing, which is when the water and coffee interact. Then we cover what the Specialty Coffee Association says about water for coffee.

NOT FROM THE SHOW

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