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Espresso Round: Stephanie Walter-Krause · Coffee People Podcast

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  OK, well then I'll welcome Stephanie Walter Kraus of
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  Swelter Coffee in the Chicagoland area back onto the
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  podcast. As if we haven't just been
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  talking for like 45 minutes for the espresso crowd, which are
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  totally arbitrary questions to help us get to know you as a
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  person better. And we'll start with, do aliens
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  exist? Do.
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  Aliens exist. I hope so.
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  Do you think they would like us if they landed?
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  No, they probably think we're really weird or something.
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  Because if they were able, if they had the technology and the
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  intellect to travel the Galaxy to, to come to our planet,
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  they're going to be just like, what are these guys doing?
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  If you could have coffee, sit and have a cup of coffee with a
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  living celebrity, who would it be and why?
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  Oh, that's a tough one. But for some reason, Michelle
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  Obama popped in my head. I was just thinking in my head,
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  no matter what what you're thinking, the right answer is
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  Michelle Obama. Not even joking.
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  I was really thinking that. Yeah, I don't know.
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  I would. Yeah, Let's go with Michelle.
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  She's just such a seems like a such a wonderful human.
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  I just think it would be a delight and an honor to share a
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  coffee with her, just with everything that she's done and
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  what she represents and has done in the world.
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  And yeah, that would be cool. And I will point out you're in
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  the Chicago area. It's possible you could run into
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  her. Do they still live here?
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  I thought they. I think they they still have the
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  house there. I know that when I lived in the
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  South Side, we live not far from there.
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  And have to look it up. They would still come in into
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  town on a regular basis. All right.
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  We lived around the corner from, I believe the Dairy Queen where
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  they had their first date. There's a little plaque there
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  and. Wow, I'll have to go check that
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  one out. Dairy Queen still exists.
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  That Dairy Queen still exists, or at least the plaque does.
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  Yeah, yeah, that's funny. I haven't seen Dairy Queen in so
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  long. What is the best cup of coffee
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  that you remember drinking? I should probably say my own,
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  huh? But you know, I had.
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  I remember. This is just the only one that
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  really sticks out of my head. When I went to Guatemala this
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  past April, I think it was April, I went to the coffee
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  shop, of course. Is it lost in Troll?
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  I can't remember the name of the shop, but they are run by the
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  folks behind Primavera Coffee. The barista there, Astrid, made
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  the best cappuccino I've ever had in my life.
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  I only have two questions left for you in the espresso round.
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  The 1st is what is a piece of advice that you've received that
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  you've used or that's kind of stuck with you?
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  And I would caveat something, maybe even that you've pulled
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  out on your own from a book or a movie or just something that.
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  Yeah, I'm a big believer. I don't know if anyone really
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  ever said it, but it's usually if I, if I pick it up here and
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  there through what wise people say in either speeches or, you
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  know, anecdotes or whatever. But you have, you really do have
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  to follow your heart. You really do have to follow
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  what you believe in and and kind of just go for it, even when
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  things just maybe don't work out or go the way you plan.
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  You just have to sort of hunker down, look deep inside and try
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  to navigate as as honestly and heartfelt as you can and to go
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  through your life and challenges and even easy to stuff, but stay
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  true to kind of where your heart really is driving you.
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  We'll close out our our arbitrary question list here
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  with for you as a as a home roaster turned professional
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  roaster business person. Is roasting coffee more art,
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  more science, or something else entirely?
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  I think it is all of the above because should I say because?
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  Sure, why not? Well, I think because you can.
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  You can roast coffee with your, your heart and your art, you
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  know, kind of having your perspective.
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  You can roast coffee and get super sciency and technical and
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  you know, all the chemistry about it.
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  And then you can sort of discover your own approach and
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  sensory relationship with it. So I feel like there's an
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  opportunity you just kind of have to love it, you know, and
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  then you'll find your own entry point and way about it.
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  Like I would love to say I could get super nerdy and technical
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  and and science Y about it, but I can't.
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  I'm also not overly art felt either.
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  I just kind of go with what I feel like I knew and and try to
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  learn from my mistakes and and move forward.
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  But you know, you can be extreme on either end or you can find
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  your own path. Stephanie, thank you for
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  surviving this gruelling edition of the Espresso Round.
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  If you're listening, check out our full interview with
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  Stephanie Walter Kraus, So Swelter Coffee on the Coffee
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  People podcast. You'll find all the the links
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  and all the show notes and everything wherever you're
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  listening to this, whether it's YouTube, Spotify, or Apple.
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  We appreciate you and thank you, Stephanie, for joining us once
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  again. Yeah.
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  Thank you so much.