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Marea Coffee and Roast! West Coast Coffee Collaboration Conversation Equals Alliteration! · Coffee People Podcast

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  I'm going to have Grayson just tell us how to find the coffee
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  and we'll just we'll, I'll, I'll hack it together.
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  It'll be perfect. We're on the road.
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  Now that was smooth. I love that Grayson's on the
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  road. I'm in a a coffee roaster in
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  Spokane, WA called Roast House. Thank you for letting me use the
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  space. And Joe's the only one of us
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  just chilling at home, since we're talking about a coffee
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  called On the Road. Yeah, I'm, I'm at the, I'm at
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  the beach in Cardiff, in San Diego shows in Wisconsin and
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  you're in Idaho. That's pretty cool.
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  Yeah, I love it. Let me do a quick read in, guys.
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  Let's say hello everyone. Welcome to another episode of
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  the Coffee People podcast. I think I'm looking at the right
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  place. I don't have my set up.
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  I'm just like, out and about. The show is presented by Rostar
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  Coffee Packaging and it's fitting that we're all doing
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  this virtually because this is the on the road coffee, which I
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  have just set this up bag right here with my fancy little dog
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  chip clip that I've been using today with the team for Maria
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  coffee, Joe Benger and Grayson Grayson.
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  Is it bettinger or bettinger? I've known you like 5.
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  Years I see bettinger. OK, Benger, so we have this
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  coffee that we all kind of worked on together.
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  Collaboration. Maria Rose, West Coast on the
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  Road edition. Why did we do this?
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  So, you know, first of all, Ryan, you know, I want to thank
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  you for having us on your podcast a few years back.
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  I know that we were one of your sponsors from the beginning and
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  I know talking with Joe we had the idea of doing a collab.
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  Basically the quick background about Maria is we built a team
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  of ambassadors with the idea of doing collaborating
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  collaborations with them in specific roasts.
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  And so when we can't, we came up with the idea of doing something
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  with you is pretty much a no brainer.
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  And you know, if we've always, Joe and myself and our team
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  have, has always been very open minded about what we want to do
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  and how we want to do it. And, and you know, kind of you
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  got an idea, let's run with it and see what happens.
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  And we were super stoked to to be able to partner up with you
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  and, and the packaging turned out amazing with Rostars.
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  We want to thank them and you know, you're, you're the guy,
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  the boots on the ground, on the road travelling.
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  So we were really excited to to do something with you and the
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  Roast West Coast. So you guys have another collab?
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  Yeah, you're welcome. I mean, you guys have another
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  collab, which I think is kind of what started my Congress.
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  Joe's been bugging me to go on an origin trip with him, and I
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  thought, let's start smaller than that.
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  I don't know if I can handle that, but let's get a coffee
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  out. You guys did another one with an
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  artist, a friend of mine, too, Skywalker, that I thought, oh,
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  that's such a cool concept. And I think like, subtly like
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  inspired me to start pursuing more collabs.
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  That coffee's still out there on mariacoffee.com.
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  Joe, can you tell us a little bit about this coffee?
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  I know you. You sourced it.
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  You were the guy. You sent me a bunch of samples
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  and right away I was leaning towards the Mexico.
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  So what's the story? Yeah, definitely.
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  This coffee is from Finca Max Ball in in Mexico and it's
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  located right on the border, literally on the border of
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  Mexico and Guatemala. The the city you fly into is
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  Tapachula and it's Jorge George, his family's farm that they've
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  had for generations. It's on, it's actually 50% of
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  the farm is rainforest. It's on it it, it's an amazing
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  farm. You go in there and you're just
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  blown away. There's a waterfall.
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  It's on a plateau and it's just, it's just an amazing place.
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  So we've been friends for a long time.
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  We've done several different collaborations with George.
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  And yeah, that's a farm I definitely want to bring you to.
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  It's a it'll, it'll, the experience is, is epic.
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  And to see everything that he does, he also is is A pillar of
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  his community, everything that he does.
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  He has a school on the farm, provides housing.
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  And they also, you know, feed everyone.
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  They have a tortilla maker. I mean, it's just a cool, you
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  know, I met a gentleman there that had been working on the
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  farm since he was 15. He's 85 now.
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  He's head of all their nursery. So it's just, it's, it's the,
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  the ultimate like practice of sustainability and, and just
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  doing good things. So that's why I was excited that
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  you chose that. And I'd, I'd love to highlight
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  his, his farm and everything that he's doing as well, because
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  he's just a great guy and he's been great to work with.
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  And I and you become a good friend just like you.
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  And it's awesome to work with you and see everything that
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  you've done and taken, you know, all of your projects.
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  And so you're a great ambassador.
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  You get, get all these different people together.
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  So it's it's, it's just been really cool everything.
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  I'm not used to people saying nice things about me.
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  It's supposed to be the other way around.
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  I was just going to say, you know, I didn't know you were so
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  well spoken, Joe. I would have had you on the show
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  more often. Well, I was excited.
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  I mean, I was already leaning towards a coffee from Mexico, in
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  part because I'm on the road because we're moving from
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  Southern California and we are right there and enjoying.
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  I think more like single origin Mexico has been a lot of places.
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  People in that area certainly are ambassadors for Mexico,
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  Mexico coffees. And now that I'm leaving
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  Southern California for the the great Pacific Northwest, the
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  upper left, I've learned as as we call it now, you know, I
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  still have this, I'm still like listen to my local San Diego
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  news. I still have like all my local
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  stuff. I don't know what to do yet.
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  So I feel very attached to it and it makes me feel like I'm at
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  home at the beach, you know, looking out before it's too, too
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  hot in the day, just looking out at the waves, which is kind of
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  Maria's vibe as well. I mean, to me, this coffee is a
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  way to to chill out. It's like a daily driver.
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  Like you can sit and drink it, you know, on a cool morning at
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  the beach or in the mountains or in the trees.
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  And, and that to me is Maria's whole thing, like a coffee for
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  everyone. I might be wrong on that.
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  You can tell me if that's the wrong vibe, but that's what I
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  get from it and from the brand. And the package I think reflects
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  that. I went with the, I mean, I got
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  to design some of this and, and work on it with you guys and
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  Rostar. I'm going to just kind of shout
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  them out again. They provided us this package
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  because they're, when I said, Hey, I want to do these collabs
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  with a bunch of small coffee roasters and uplift this
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  industry, I'm not going to make much money from it.
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  Are you OK with that? And they said, yeah, that sounds
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  good. As long as you're not making any
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  money, we're fine. People wait, are people making
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  money in this industry? Yeah, and I, I think you're spot
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  on. That's, you know, that's Maria's
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  our our vibe is to be approachable and, and, you know,
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  have that, that direct connection and, and just try to
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  help help everyone out, you know, help the people at origin,
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  you know, provide people here with great coffee and, and just
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  make everything approachable. And, and I agree with you, you
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  know, that the saying I'll, I'll probably get this wrong, you
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  know, that the higher tides float all boats or whatever that
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  saying is. But yeah, I, I definitely try to
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  support all different coffee people and, and different
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  vendors and, and you've helped out with that a lot, Ryan as
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  well, connecting people. And I think it's just good for
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  everyone to collaborate and try to work together and and sell as
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  much good coffee as you can. Yeah, I wanted to piggyback on
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  what you were saying earlier about the vibe of Maria.
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  And you know, our tagline since day one has always been enjoy
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  your ritual. And you know, we set out to do
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  rad things with rad people. So this collab has been super
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  awesome and we're really excited for it.
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  I'm excited that it is now available on our website,
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  mariacoffee.com, MAREA, coffee.com and yeah, let's
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  looking forward to more adventures and more collabs in
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  the future with you Ryan. So yeah, I'll let I'll let you
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  guys take. It from there us as well, a
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  little technical difficulty since we are all on the road
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  except for you, Joe, you're in your comfortable home with your
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  air conditioning, I assume. Thank you both just for the
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  opportunity to work with you and Maria.
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  I'm super stoked to tell everyone about this coffee and
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  any final thoughts, Joe. I just want to thank you so much
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  and, and it's been great as always working with you and
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  continue to do collaborations and connect with coffee people
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  and, and I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks when
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  you're in Wisconsin. All right, that's it for today.
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  You can find this show on roastwestcoast.com.
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  It's on all the platforms, YouTube, Spotify, Apple.
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  Buy this coffee in this cool package from
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  rostarmariacoffee.com. Links in the bio.
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  Choose everyone, drink good coffee and tip your baristas and
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  I'll see you on the road. The also shout out to Hannah who
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  gave me this chip clip recently my my cousins daughter and I'm
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  pretty stoned about it.