The Archive

Thankfully for you, all of my awful latte art is still visible on my old Blogger site, you’re welcome. But over the years I’ve also done some more serious stuff, and here it all is…..

Videos & Podcasts

Buying Season with Christopher Feran & Kylee Clancy: Project Brown, Burundi 2024 season recap April 2025

Birmingham coffee (no) festival 2024 panel discussion July 2024.

Hello Judges podcast with Will Woodhouse Banks 2024: The DQ special!
Hello Judges Podcast with Will Woodhouse Banks 2022:
Coffee Competitions

Keys to the Shop #376 with Chris Deferio 2022: Career, Coffee Quality and Advancing the Industry

SCA Barista Guild Bloom 2020 : The Living Wage – Follow the money
SCA Barista Guild Bloom 2020: How to make a good career in coffee

Tamper Tantrum @ Cup North 2015: The 3rd Wave has stagnated.

Tamper Tantrum @ Cup North 2015: Panel talk.

Tamper Tantrum: Episode No.48

Industry Thoughts

Assembly Coffee – Industry Insights (The Burger Post)

FCP Coffee – Framing the pitch

FCP Coffee – The truth about the 4th wave

FCP Coffee – Are we in the WBC’s juiced era?

FCP Coffee – Stagnation, maturation & finding your place.

FCP Coffee – Semantics Matter: The pocket science myth

On Transparency

FCP Coffee – The Lies We Tell Ourselves

FCP Coffee – Put Up Or Shut Up

Marginal Gains

FCP Coffee – Its all in the mix (the one with Scace and Cameron)

FCP Coffee – Maximising extraction through flow and pressure

FCP Coffee – On Pressure and Flow

FCP Coffee – Flow and Soak

FCP Coffee – Do region or process affect extraction %?

FCP Coffee – Extraction nomenclature and context

FCP Coffee – Extraction power rankings

FCP Coffee – Living with the Pergtamp

The Strada Chronicles – a trilogy

FCP Coffee – The practical guide to Strada husbandry

FCP Coffee – Advanced Strada husbandry

FCP Coffee – Making the Strada better

FCP Coffee – The Strada chronicles Pt 4

On Covid-19

FCP Coffee – When the lockdown breaks

FCP Coffee – If you open it, they will come

FCP Coffee – Intentional safety