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Roast! West Coast Classics: The Origin Story · Coffee People Podcast

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  Good morning everyone. This is Ryan Walt and I hope you
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  have a cup of coffee at the ready because this is the roast
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  West Coast coffee podcast, Classics Edition, Volume 5,
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  Welcome to this episode. This show has been on Hiatus for
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  the holidays, but that will soon be coming to an end already this
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  week. I've interviewed Danny Riggins
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  of Altria Coffee in San Diego, and carry Elliott of Elliott and
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  Marie coffee in Hillsboro Oregon suburb of Portland.
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  And I still need to roll tape on a conversation with Jeremy
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  Hicks, of Gooseberry, coffee during this Hiatus.
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  I didn't want to leave you without any great coffee
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  content. So, I've been re-airing some of
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  the Coffee smarter coffee education, shorts from the first
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  few seasons today, you'll hear Chris O'Brien.
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  Give us the coffee, origin story, I've heard him, tell this
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  story a coffee cycle, no less than a hundred and four times
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  approximately, and it never gets old.
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  If you want to catch up on all of the episodes.
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  Right now I've got new shows to edit so pitter patter, let's get
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  at it. Make sure your coffee mug is
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  full because it is time for the roast West Coast coffee podcast,
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  Classics Edition, Volume 5, That'll get to do this whole
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  Zoom meeting video, chat thing Ralph and I'm gonna have some of
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  that, I'm gonna do it, you know? So, Chris O'Brien.
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  Welcome back to the roast West Coast podcast.
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  It's wonderful. Truly wonderful to have you
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  back. Back for a second season.
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  For our week, one of coffee smarter.
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  I want to go back in time something we somehow didn't talk
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  about in season, one coffee who invented it, who discovered it,
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  who realized that. Hey, this Cherry over here.
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  Looks like it would be good if it were dried and ground and
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  dipped in hot water and then I put it in my mouth.
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  So that's kind of my question. What's the origin story of
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  coffee? Well, you know, it's funny
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  because when we think about a lot of food and food products
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  that we eat trying to imagine how someone got Look at that
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  plant over there, too. Here's this incredible thing.
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  That's sort of a big gap, but there is actually a specific
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  legendary story in the coffee world that I'm probably told you
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  before. But I'd love to share with
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  everybody else. It's sort of a sort of a known
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  thing and the coffee world, but all coffee originally comes from
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  Ethiopia or wild coffee forests in Ethiopia, which is just easy
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  and awesome to me to think about it.
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  Coffee is not At a tree. So to call it a forest is an
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  interesting, it's considered a shrub but these shrubs can get
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  pretty tall like made taller than you are and so you can
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  wander the wild coffee forests of Ethiopia and just across the
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  sea from Ethiopia is Yemen. So it's arguable that that those
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  wild coffee coffee, shrubs are also found originally in Yemen
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  just as much as they are in Ethiopia.
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  But generally say that all coffee originally comes from
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  Ethiopia. And so way back in the day and
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  easy opium, Is a goat herder walking along and the Goat.
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  Herders name is called E Ka LD. I called his walking along with
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  his goats. Maybe he's got 20 goats or
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  something is walking from point A to point B and point B.
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  He goes and he sets up his camp and he starts going and taking
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  care of his 19 goats. It does wait, holy smokes.
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  There's only 19 goats, where's number 20?
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  And so, he starts hiking back along the path that he's been
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  hiking along and he finally finds the missing goat and As
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  the goat by the whatever you grab a goat by and it tries to
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  bring the goat with him. And the goats just acting crazy
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  to go. It's hopping around jumping up
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  and down just, you know, getting on the microphone and singing.
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  It's Just Two Goats just going nuts and called either goatherd.
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  Realizes that there's this shrub nearby with his little red
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  berries on it. And that the, the goat has been
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  eating these berries. And that's why the goats all
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  crazy. So he grabs a couple branches
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  these Cherries, Berries, and Struggles to go and it brings it
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  back to his campsite and he sort of starts experimenting.
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  And, and that's how we discovered coffee was called
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  either goatherd. So, you'll see a lot of coffee
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  roasters or importers have a goat as one of it says, one of
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  their symbols, a lot of Ethiopian coffee.
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  Some does a goat as a symbol of coffee and the name called you
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  will pop up sometimes in a different coffee shop names
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  around the world, interesting. So do we do, we believe this
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  story do? We really think this is gonna
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  hurt? Her discovered coffee or do we
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  think that was a story that somebody told an effort to sell,
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  you know, their neighbors on this idea that they should put
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  this dirty Cherry into their mouth.
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  I mean, you know, you can eat the cherries and they're pretty
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  tasty, but they're not necessarily everyone's favorite.
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  Little fruit to snack on. And they've got these really
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  large seeds in the middle that aren't fun to chew on.
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  So, you know, to get to the point of removing the seeds
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  drying the seeds, then roasting the seeds grow Anything it up,
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  adding it to Boiling Water removing the grounds, you know.
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  I don't know how someone gets quite there, that's definitely a
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  bit of a stretch but we definitely can't deny that.
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  The ultimate product is is pretty amazing.
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  And you know there's there's fermentation along the way and a
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  lot of great foods are fermented and you know it's you think
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  about t. Anything else simple T is you
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  plucked some leaves off of the branch and you dry them and then
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  you steam and hot water and you make tea, right?
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  Well tea isn't that simple either?
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  Fermenting it and fire roasting in some cases and, you know,
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  tearing it in certain ways and rubbing it between their hands.
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  And, you know, all these foods that we eat all have kind of
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  incredibly Arcane methods of preparation.
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  And it's sort of hard to tell actually where they come from,
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  but, you know, I'm definitely happy.
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  How far we've come with coffee preparation because I have
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  ground coffee, beans, between two cast iron pans before.
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  When we didn't have a coffee grinder, when camping.
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  And I will tell you it's not fun and the coffee doesn't taste
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  very good. But if you didn't have anything
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  to compare it to, I think I'm okay with sticking with this
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  idea that called e, discovered coffee.
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  I like the story of it and I'm also I think I'm going to start
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  researching goats and think about maybe putting some time
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  and effort into into goat learning.
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  You know. I think that would be good for
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  you because you know when I think about you and I think
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  about boats, it really brings like sort of a similar feeling
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  tonight to my heart. So just joy and happiness.
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  Yeah so really just just pursue that Pursue your dreams, you
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  know, pursue your goat dreams, Ryan, Chris, I got to learn
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  about coffee from you. So I've already achieved my
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  dreams, your Go dreams, my all of my dreams, either way.
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  It's great to have you back. Thank you for coming and getting
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  getting us all a little coffee smarter today.
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  I'll see you again soon. I can't wait, I can't wait for
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  the next one Ryan. Thanks again for having me.
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  Thank you. Once again, for checking in to
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  another episode of the roast West Coast coffee.
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