The Top 20 Best Coffee Podcasts of 2020
A definitive guide to the top 20 best coffee podcasts of 2020. Listen to well known players in the coffee industry discuss everything from cultivating, roasting, and brewing coffee to shop management, local marketing and more.
In no particular order...
Cat & Cloud Coffee Podcast
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The Cat & Cloud Coffee Podcast, where you can get a weekly dose of audible coffee magic featuring two best friends and industry guests from all over the globe.
Keys To The Shop
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Keys to the Shop is a podcast designed to provide the coffee retail professional, with insights, inspiration, and the tools they will need to grow and advance their coffee career or coffee business.
Learn from experts both in and outside the coffee industry as they deliver specific, practical, and actionable advice about barista work, management, leadership, personal development, and anything else that will help you achieve success.
The Coffee Podcast
The Coffee Podcast is about coffee and people, hosted by Jesse Hartman. The Coffee Podcast unfolds the wonder behind coffee through conversations with people in and around the coffee industry.
The show follows topics on sourcing, brewing, and roasting coffee but also dives deep into ethical issues with topics like coffee production and sustainability. Often, topics are nuanced in conversation with all the hands involved in making a delicious cup of coffee. Episodes are released in series every 4 months.
Tamper Tantrum
Tamper Tantrum is a fortnightly produced podcast which plays host to coffee luminary guests, general coffee banter, deep dives into proper geekery, and bucketfuls of mad ideas–all as discussed by Stephen Leighton, Colin Harmon, and on occasion, Jenn Rugolo.
SCA Lectures
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A podcast series from the Specialty Coffee Association presenting stories, lectures, and debates from the SCA's global events. The SCA is a non-profit organization that represents thousands of coffee professionals, from producers to baristas all over the world.
Cross Country Coffee Roadshow
The Cross Country Coffee Roadshow is traveling America, one coffee shop at a time. Their first season was Route 66, and second season is the Pacific Coast Highway. They are crossing the country, looking for the best independent coffee stores, and diving into the places and communities that make them so special.
Hosts Dan and Linda McGarry are searching for not only the best cup of coffee, but also the most interesting personalities and human interest stories across this great land. They interview owners, baristas, musicians, and community advocates.
Coffee Sprudgecast
Sprudge Co-Founders Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen explore the exciting world of specialty coffee in this weekly podcast.
Roast & Reason: A Coffee Podcast
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Why suffer through a bitter cup of burnt or stale coffee when there is a world of amazing coffee out there? Roast and Reason podcast is a coffee podcast that explores the world of specialty coffee. Each week Andrew Boyer dives into a wide variety of coffee topics with educational and actionable information.
Are you curious about the best techniques for how to make coffee at home? How to buy the best coffee? How to store coffee? How a coffee roaster transforms green coffee? Join us as we answer these questions and more. Roast and Reason is here to expand your coffee knowledge, introduce you to the coffee farmers, the coffee roasters, and the baristas that push the coffee industry forward. Join us and drink better coffee. Because life is too short to drink bad coffee!
Coffee Cafe
Jason & Myles are coffee addicted dads that take you to the best coffee shops, introduce you to the incredible people in the coffee world, and tell you the must-have drinks to order. Grab a cup and find out what it really takes to get the best cup of coffee and how to stay sane (or go insane) as dads!
I Brew My Own Coffee
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I Brew My Own Coffee is a podcast for people who care about coffee. Hosted by Brian Beyke. (Oldie-but-goodie alert).
Coffee Roasting Navigated
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A podcast for coffee roasters about the difficulties in roasting coffee – and all the different ways of getting hold of the roast.
Bean Stuff Coffee Podcast
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Coffee is the fuel for our modern society. Join Paul Allen, a coffee roaster of 20 years, published coffee writer, quality grader and general coffee snob along with Reed Allen as they discuss coffee and bring in others from the industry. Whether you want to deepen your understanding of coffee or are just starting your coffee journey they have something to share with you.
Coffee is ME
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Having fun talking about coffee while drinking natural wine. Valerian Hrala's goal is to discuss current topics in the coffee industry and help you with your professionals coffee issues like roasting, brewing, coffee quality, or business. They hope to inspire the future coffee businesses.
FilteredThoughts
FilteredThoughts is a podcast focused on the coffee industry, mainly in the UK. Made up for 7 members talking about recent topics & news.
Coffee With Mirko
Hosted by entrepreneur and coffee lover Mirko Bonmassar. On this podcast you'll find a mix of live interviews with coffee people as well as keynote speeches, self improvement and life experiences. Mirko's goal is to help in any way, as many people as possible.
Specialty Coffee Talk
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They talk high quality coffee, in a low quality way. Chemex/V60/Kalita Wave/French Press/Drip/Espresso/Cold Brew/etc.
Coffee, Pods & Wods
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Do you like coffee? Do you like podcasts? Do you like fitness? If you answered yes to all of the above, you'll love the podcast. If you answered yes to one of the above, you'll like part of the podcast.
Boss Barista
Boss Barista is an award-winning podcast highlighting all corners of the service industry. Initially focusing on coffee, Boss Barista has expanded to telling universal stories meant to empower and inform the folks who make the things you love.
Coffee with April
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This podcast features conversations about integrity, business and coffee with those that we believe to be some of the most relevant coffee professionals in the industry.
Map It Forward
The MAP IT FORWARD Coffee Podcast is a daily live stream video (Youtube) and audio podcast. The podcast consists of two types of discussions focused around the coffee industry and supply chain hosted by Lee Safar.
The first is The Daily Coffee Pro - short 15 minute daily musings to give you something to ponder about your career, life, and business as you move through your day. The main MAP IT FORWARD Podcast is made up of long-format conversations with respected industry professionals around interesting and topical subjects facing the entire coffee value chain.