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Coffee Roaster Warm Up Sessions
The Coffee Roaster Warm Up Sessions podcast covers all things coffee including roasting, brewing, tasting, and business. This is a glimpse into real discussions between two brothers Sergei and Mark Kutrovski who are co-owners of Mirror Coffee Roasters.
Episodes
- Coffee Roaster Warm Up Sessions
141 | Is A Food Menu Necessary In A Coffee Shop?
Most coffee shops offer pastries with their beverages, and it's becoming popular to have a breakfast food menu as well. Is having a food menu necessary? In…
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140 | Modeling Excellence in a Coffee Shop with Alex Sciarrotta of Narrative Coffee
Narrative Coffee, here in WA, models excellence very well. Everything from their coffee program to their food menu is refined for a very pleasant experience…
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139 | Starting A Coffee Shop vs Starting A Coffee Roastery
Starting a coffee shop or a coffee roastery are both challenging and a risk. After having started a roasting company and helped owners start cafes, we've…
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138 | This Changes Everything For Decaf Coffee
This past week, decaf coffee got the spotlight and it happened to be at the US Brewers Cup Championship. The 2024 USBrC winner, Weihong Zhang, wins first place…
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137 | How To Grow As A Coffee Content Creator With Jimmy The Barista
A special episode with Jimmy The Barista where we talk about what his journey has been like creating content around coffee, how he started in coffee, and his…
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136 | How Coffee Roasters and Coffee Shops Can Succeed Together
As a coffee roaster, offering wholesale to coffee shops is core to our business model. For us, however, it's not just about getting more coffee out the door…
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135 | Avoid This As A Coffee Roaster If You Want Tasty Coffee
As coffee roasters, we understand that we can only roast a coffee to the potential of the green coffee itself. In many cases, we're doing our best to try to…
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134 | What It Takes To Compete in US Brewers Cup
Coffee competition has always intrigued us, and these last few months have been very busy because of that. Sergei just came back from competing in both cup…
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133 | How Origin Impacts The Way We Brew and Roast Coffee
Something we hear and are asked often is how we brew coffee based on origin. The same goes for our roasting approach as well. In this episode we talk about how…
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132 | Dialing In And Brewing With Cone vs Flat Bottom Brewers
When brewing pour over coffee, for the most part you're left with either a flat bottom or cone shape brewer. Both of the major categories come with their own…
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131 | Are Coffee Brands Selling Out? La Marzocco & La Colombe
Recently, we've heard of several well known coffee brands sell either a big chunk or all of their business to other big brands. Oftentimes people call this…
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130 | Has Tipping In Coffee Shops Gone Too Far?
We've all been there. You order a coffee at a coffee shop and the barista asks you to answer a few simple questions on the screen. Tipping your barista is…
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129 | Two Big Lessons We Learned Running A Coffee Roastery in 2023
We've been running our coffee roasting business for 4 years now, and we're still learning old and new things in the process. As 2023 comes to an end, we're…
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128 | Greatest Hits Of Our 2023 Coffee Roasting Journey
This year flew by fast, and very quickly did we pocket another year as a coffee roasting company. It's been an incredible year of relationships, connection…
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127 | How To Get Your Friends and Family Hooked on Tasty Coffee
The holidays are always bringing people together and there's a good chance coffee will make its way amongst conversation and gatherings. This is a great…
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126 | Filter vs Espresso Roasts and New Coffee Drops
Filter roasts and espresso roasts have been around for a while in coffee, however, are they absolutely necessary? Can't you just have one roast for both brew…
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125 | Coffee Tasting Notes, Roasting, and Water Chemistry
Coffee roasting, water chemistry, and coffee flavor notes are all linked together and are a bit more complicated than we'd like. Both coffee roasting and water…
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124 | Avoiding Development Issues In Your Coffee Roasting
Roasting coffee is similar to dialing in a cup of coffee or shot of espresso. Under and over extracting your coffee leaves you with an unpleasant taste in your…
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123 | Q&A: Coffee Hype Beast Culture, Greatest Fears, And Work Before Mirror
This is a Q&A episode where we got some questions from you and answered them on the podcast. We cover a few topics including today's coffee culture, what we…
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122 | Mahlkonig EK Omnia, Alaska Airlines Coffee Upgrade, New La Marzocco Strada
An eventful few weeks for the coffee industry with new gear rolling out at World of Coffee in Milan as well as recent coffee news that's worth highlighting. On…
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121 | Is Time Important In Coffee Brewing and Roasting?
One of the key data points we use in coffee is time. Whether we're pulling espresso, making a pour over, or roasting coffee, it's something we're always…
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120 | The Most Important Variable of Making Good Coffee
Coffee is mainly water with small, extracted coffee particles. Water makes up most of your beverage and depending on its alkalinity, hardness, and other…
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119 | Why We Need Better Entrepreneurship In Cafes And Coffee Roasteries
Loving the craft behind coffee is one thing, but building a thriving business is another. Often times we hear people start coffee shops because they love it…
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118 | How To Build Your Coffee Career And Find Opportunities
Working in as a barista in coffee looks great from outside, but once you're in it, the job comes with many challenges and oftentimes compensated poorly. In…
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117 | How We Started Our Coffee Podcast and How You Can Too
With over 100 episodes recorded and over 50k streams, we break down how we started our podcast, our current gear setup right now, and why we need more media…
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116 | Changing The Drive-Thru Coffee Stand Model
Here in the Pacific Northwest and especially Bellingham, WA, we have drive-thru coffee everywhere. It's become very popular and although we have so many, it's…
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115 | Starting A Coffee Shop: One Thing You Need To Get Ahead
Starting a coffee shop or a coffee roasting business can be difficult as it is, but you can do a few things to make it easier on yourself. In this episode we…
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114 | Why Coffee Culture In Asia Is One of The Best With Justin
Coffee culture all around the world is very different from what we experience here in the states. Since we just returned from travels in Singapore and…
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113 | The Part of Coffee Sustainability That You Don't Hear
Coffee sustainability and transparency is important, and in this episode, we debrief on our recent trip to Indonesia and the eye opening experiences we had…
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112 | What You Didn't Know About Indonesian Coffee - Featuring Taylor
We chat with Taylor, who helps produce coffee in Indonesia, about their local coffee scene, different processing methods, and why talking about coffee…
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111 | How To Make The Most of Iced Coffee & Cold Brew
Iced coffee and cold brew is a perfect drink for summer, but it comes with a few drawbacks. Getting optimal extraction, flavor clarity, and complex flavor can…
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110 | How To Brew Coffee Outdoors
Making coffee outdoors has become one of our favorite things to do. On this trip to the WA coast, we share our process and how we make coffee out in the wild…
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109 | Merging New Tech With Coffee and Milk Drink Terminology with Jessica Greenwalt
Jessica Greenwalt, a creative director at Vayner3, joins us to talk about all things web3, emerging technologies, and the implications of different technology…
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108 | Hot Takes on Coffee Industry Trends
There's so much happening in the coffee industry. This episode is our *almost* unfiltered take on a few trends we see in coffee and breaking down what we think…
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107 | How Coffee Has Changed The Way We Travel
We're obsessed with coffee. Recently we realized it's now taking over our travel itineraries and has become a huge part of how we plan for trips. How has…
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106 | Using Graphic Designers For Your Coffee Business With Ansley Randall
Ansley Randall is a graphic designer and mural artist based out of Florida. She's played a huge part here at Mirror Coffee Roasters by designing our new coffee…
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105 | How We Won The 2023 Canadian Comandante Championship
Comandante is known for their superior hand coffee grinders that have been seen being used on the competition stage including this year at the 2023 Brewers Cup…
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104 | What It Takes To Compete as a US Barista Competitor With Keziah
Coffee competitions are a big part of specialty coffee. It gives those working in coffee an opportunity to showcase their passion for the craft. In this…
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103 | The Challenges of Starting a Coffee Roasting Business With Kyle Rowsell
Kyle Rowsell started as a YouTuber and content creator which has led him to launching his coffee roasting company called September Coffee. Kyle Rowsell opens…
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102 | Going Viral on TikTok With Coffee And Spreading Positivity With Tanner Colson
Tanner Colson started by creating coffee content on TikTok a few years back without much expectation of going viral. Little did he know that this was just the…
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101 | Taking Coffee From Sample Roast to Production Roast
Sourcing and roasting coffee are two very important aspects of a roasting company. Once you've sourced a really delicious coffee, how do you transfer that into…
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100 | Our Favorite Moments on Our Coffee Podcast & Where All This Is Going
Our coffee podcast just hit 100 episodes. What initially felt like a side project of our roasting company now has become one of our favorite parts of our whole…
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99 | What Sets A Coffee Roaster Apart For Coffee Drinkers
What sets a coffee roasting company apart from others? As home baristas, we've noticed that everyone claims to roast the best specialty coffee. Given how…
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98 | What We Found From Blindly Tasting Over 60 Coffees & 14 Coffee Roasters At Once
This week, we blindly cupped over 60 coffees and 14 coffee roasters all at once. There were many delicious coffees on the table which was very fun to taste and…
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97 | Taking Risks, AI And Coffee, Family Work Balance (Q&A)
This is another Q&A podcast episode with really incredible questions ranging from taking risks as a coffee roasting business, the influence of AI on the coffee…
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96 | How To Source And Manage Green Coffee For Peak Flavor
One of the challenges of having a coffee roasting business is green coffee buying. How you buy green coffee will define the quality level of your finished…
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95 | Why Our First Coffee Origin Trip Changed Us For Good
We just came back from our first coffee origin trip as a coffee roasting company. We spent the week traveling, visiting farms, connecting with our producing…
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94 | A Key Part To A Successful Coffee Roasting Operation
There's a lot of things that go into running a success coffee roasting operation, but we feel like there's one standout concept that is an absolute essential…
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93 | Tasting One of The Most Expensive and Rarest Cups of Coffee In The World
What does one of the most expensive cup of coffees taste like? What should you expect a coffee scored at 96 to offer? Is this even necessary or beneficial to…
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92 | Building Coffee Gear For Home Baristas With Andrew Pernicano From Flair Espresso
On this coffee podcast episode, we have Andrew Pernicano from Flair Espresso! This was such an enjoyable conversation as we dived into the story behind Flair…
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91 | Why We Get Bored In Coffee
Coffee is one of our biggest passions we're pursuing and see ourselves continuing to go after it for the next decade. The craft behind coffee is both…
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90 | Changing The Coffee Experience - Our 15 Month Project
The coffee experience at home or in a cafe is far more than just coffee flavor. It's a collective of aesthetics, visuals, aromas, sounds, and more. For over a…
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89 | Finding Your Coffee Roasting Style & Flavor Preference
How you roast coffee is a huge determiner of what your coffee will taste like. Although there are plenty of other variables at work that can arguably impact…
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88 | Dealing With Weaknesses In Our Coffee Roasting Company
Running a coffee business as taught us a lot about each other as well as ourselves. That includes our strengths but also our weaknesses, insecurities, pain…
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87 | What's Coming For The Coffee Industry In 2023
On this episode of the Coffee Roaster Warm Up Sessions podcast, we wrap up 2022 with one last episode talking about the what we predict will happen in the…
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86 | How We Approached Roasting A Mystery, Limited Quantity Coffee
How do you roast a coffee you have little information about, limited quantity of, and it needs to be done within a short timeline? A few weeks ago we were…
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85 | The Coffees You Should Have Tried In 2022
Exceptional coffees should be celebrated. After all, the work it takes to grow, produce, process, roast, and brew is all for the sake of a delicious cup of…
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84 | Why You Should and Shouldn't Start A Business With Family
Starting a business with family has both negative and positive connotation behind it. There bad stories we hear about business and money destroying…
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83 | Our Go To Favorite Podcasts and How Podcasts Are Changing Culture
Podcasting and listening to podcasts have become nearly as common as listening to music. Podcasts have become a resource of education, entertainment…
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82 | How To Buy Coffee For Your Coffee Shop, Coffee Cart, Or Business
You've decided to start your coffee shop, coffee cart or buy coffee for your restaurant or employees at your business. The question we've seen come up over and…