Coffee Canon

You are reading Episode Ten: Warfare and Coffee Part One – The Civil War from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! When I say the words, “Civil War” what are the first things that pop into your mind? If you’re from the United States, it’s probably things like slavery, Abraham Lincoln, or Gettysburg. But, in fact, the thing Civil War Soldiers journaled about more than anything else was coffee. War has a way of making people appreciate … Continue reading Episode Ten: Warfare and Coffee Part One – The Civil War → The post Episode Ten: Warfare and Coffee Part One – The Civil War appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode Nine: The Double R Coffee House from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Coffee’s history includes examples of shops and cafes that didn’t fit their historical context.  On this episode of Coffee Canon, we deep-dive into one of these; a shop that was opened in 1919, but bears a striking resemblance to modern artisan coffee shops. The Double R Coffee House was ahead of its time, and its owners … Continue reading Episode Nine: The Double R Coffee House → The post Episode Nine: The Double R Coffee House appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode Eight: Modern Coffee Culture from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! The way we drink and experience coffee has changed drastically. To many people, it’s become a specialty beverage where taste not only matters, but is decrypted using a multi-tiered tasters wheel consisting of 73 individual flavors. Cafes today focus not just on profit margins, but on growing standards and fair wages for farmers. Baristas take … Continue reading Episode Eight: Modern Coffee Culture → The post Episode Eight: Modern Coffee Culture appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode Seven: Dutch Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! The Netherlands is only about 1,000 miles from the Arctic Circle, making farming difficult. And yet, Dutch culture is intimately tied to coffee culture and history. Many of the biggest events that turned coffee from a novelty to a commodity happened because of the Dutch. On this episode of Coffee Canon, we explore the stories and people … Continue reading Episode Seven: Dutch Coffee → The post Episode Seven: Dutch Coffee appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode Six: Turkish Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! From the halls of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent to the streets of the Grand Bazaar, from the fields of Kaldi the Goat Herder to the room of an Israeli fortune teller; Turkish Coffee runs the gambit. It’s the world’s oldest brewing technique – surviving military coups, government bans, and industry monopolies. It’s unfiltered, strong, and unlike … Continue reading Episode Six: Turkish Coffee → The post Episode Six: Turkish Coffee appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode Five: Season of Giving (ft. Nate Westwick from Wild Goose Coffee Roasters) from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Around this time of year we hear stories of people giving back to the less fortunate in their communities. Whether it’s Ebenezer Scrooge from a Christmas Carol forgiving debts, or your local church donating money to a worthy cause, there’s something about the Holiday season that propels people to give. Last week, just before Christmas, … Continue reading Episode Five: Season of Giving (ft. Nate Westwick from Wild Goose Coffee Roasters) → The post Episode Five: Season of Giving (ft. Nate Westwick from Wild Goose Coffee Roasters) appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode Four: Holiday Drinks from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Today on the podcast we’re bending the rules a bit and not focusing entirely on coffee. Instead, in the spirit of Christmas, we’re broadening our scope and looking at Holiday drinks as a whole, and the traditions they come with. We’re focusing on three drinks in particular: the Pharisee, the Tom and Jerry, and Irish … Continue reading Episode Four: Holiday Drinks → The post Episode Four: Holiday Drinks appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode Three: Fermenting Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! For thousands of years humans have used fermentation to preserve food, leaven bread, and brew alcohol. In 19th century Belgium lambic beers were brewed using the yeasts and bacteria naturally found in the air. Fermentation is an integral part of the way we process coffee as well, but because of function – not taste. What … Continue reading Episode Three: Fermenting Coffee → The post Episode Three: Fermenting Coffee appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode Two: Italian Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! Episode Two of Coffee Canon focuses on Italian coffee. We often associate Italy with espresso, but the truth is that true espresso didn’t exist until about 1950. Developing It took the work of key inventors, businesspeople, and visionaries who saw coffee not for what it currently was, but for what it could be. In this episode … Continue reading Episode Two: Italian Coffee → The post Episode Two: Italian Coffee appeared first on Boise Coffee.

You are reading Episode One: Japanese Coffee from Boise Coffee. Please share it with friends! In this first episode of Coffee Canon, we take a look at Japan: a culture rich with history and tradition. Today, Japanese people love coffee – they’ve invented entire brew methods that the rest of the world adopted – but it wasn’t always this way. We study how and why Japan went from rejecting coffee … Continue reading Episode One: Japanese Coffee → The post Episode One: Japanese Coffee appeared first on Boise Coffee.