Angels' Cup Coffee Hunters
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsUnleash your inner coffee nerd.
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An Interview (and Blind Cigar Tasting) With Kellen Gorbett – Founder of Standard & Twain!
September 23, 2019 02:45 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBJoin us for our latest podcast where we speak with Kellen Gorbett, an Angels' Cup subscriber who was inspired to start his own blind cigar tasting club. Standard & Twain is a blind cigar tasting club where subscribers receive two cigars with the wrapper removed, a set of tasting note cards to record your notes, and a card to reveal the details on each cigar. As soon as I heard about this service, I signed up, and in this episode Kellen will be waking me through a tasting of two of the ciga...
An Interview (and Blind Coffee Tasting) with Bianca Bosker – NYT Bestselling Author of Cork Dork!
August 08, 2019 19:34 - 1 hour - 116 MBJoin us for our most recent podcast interview where we talk to Bianca Bosker, New York Times Best Selling author of Cork Dork: A Wine-FUELED Adventure Among The Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste. We talk about Bianca's journey writing Cork Dork, the myths about being a naturally talented taster and ways to improve your sense of taste, and how to buy wine to impress. There is also a live blind coffee tasting! The perfect thing to li...
Getting Down to Business with Brian Wang – Fitocracy Co-Founder Turned Executive Coach
July 22, 2019 22:18 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBJoin us for our most recent podcast interview where we talk to Brian Wang (@brianmwang), the co-Founder of Fitocracy who has now transitioned into becoming an Executive Coach for other start-up founders at Dashing Leadership. We talk about the problems many start-up founders face like how to deal with problems between co-founders, being vulnerable, how to get more out of social media when it seems like it is not going anywhere, and nonviolent communication. An important conversation for anyo...
How A Coffee Tasting Flight Changed Josh’s Life (and could change yours)
June 21, 2019 13:41 - 45 minutes - 40.8 MBThroughout the years, we've had about a dozen people reach out to say that Angels' Cup has changed their life. I can't imagine a greater compliment. Our mission has never been about coffee, our mission is to help subscribers develop a sharper sense of taste. That's a personal journey. In this episode we meet Josh Puckett, who's early experience with a Cupping Flight from Angels' Cup inspired him to become a coffee q-grader. Josh reached out to enquire about sending us samples from the brand...
Looking to become a barista? Nail your first barista job interview, with advice from 3 hiring managers at top NYC coffee shops!
June 05, 2019 20:19 - 1 hour - 154 MBInterviewing for that first barista job? Want to be a better barista? Responsible for hiring baristas for your coffee shop? This podcast is for you. In this episode, we are talking to three people who are experts on how to get hired, and what will get you fired from your first barista job. Our guests for this episode include: Ashley Gardner, General Manager at Gotham Roasters Matthew McShane, Director of Education at Think Coffee Mike Jones, Director of Retail at Variety Coffee We're...
Meet K Keener: The Most Interesting Woman in the World
May 09, 2019 22:55 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBThis episode's guest K Keener is a schoolteacher by day, Cabaret performer by night. Or maybe marathon runner. Or no, maybe a graffiti artist. No no, she's definitely doing some blind coffee tastings to set the mood for the coffee shop walking tour she's hosting in SoHo this weekend. You see, what makes K extraordinary is that every year of her life is devoted to setting an audacious goal in some new field of interest. Fortunately for us, three year ago K devoted herself to learning everythi...
Award Winning Author Rachel Northrop on Eating Locovore and Coffee Tourism
April 24, 2019 22:55 - 1 hour - 59 MBWowzers, two new podcasts in two months?! The Angels' Cup Podcast is chugging along, this week with special guest Rachel Northrop. Rachel is the author of When Coffee Speaks: Stories From and Of Latin American Coffeepeople. In this episode, we chat about eating local foods, coffee tourism, writing books, and traveling the world. For more Rachel, you can find her on Instagram @whencoffeespeaks, and on her website http://rachelnorthrop.com FAVORITE QUOTES I went down to Latin American inter...
2018 US Cup Tasters Champion & Peixoto Head Roaster – Live!
March 27, 2019 22:06 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBJoin us in our newest episode of Angels' Cup Coffee Hunters podcast where we talk about coffee, taste and everything in between. Today we are talking to Spencer Aidukaits from Peixoto Coffee Roasters and Ken Selby, 2018 US Cup Tasters Champion. We learn about how Spencer and Ken both got started in the coffee industry, who has influenced them along the way, how they prepare for a tasting competition, ways to meet more coffee friends and develop relationships in the industry and what is next...
2017 US Cup Tasters Champ Steve Cuevas Talks Tasting & Branding
May 06, 2018 21:15 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBIt's been almost two years since our last podcast, and it took a very special guest to get us back up and running! Join us for our revival episode where we speak with Steve Cuevas, 2017 US Cup Tasters Champion, roaster for Black Oak Coffee, and winner of numerous other coffee competitions including: 2017 Golden Bean Champion Two Golden Bean gold medals and 8 silver and bronze medals America's Best Espresso Want to follow along after the podcast's over? Give Steve a follow on Instag...
Driven to Win – Devin Chapman Talks Coffee Competitions and Industry Growth – EP. 11
August 16, 2016 18:41 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBDevin Chapman has an extraordinary resume. He started his career in coffee as the first employee at Coava, then moved to Verve, and then La Colombe. All three of those roasters have been featured by Angels' Cup and we love working with them. Perhaps even more impressive, however, is the fact that Devin began competing after only 6 months on the job at Coava. His list of accomplishments include: - 5th Place, United States Barista Championship Finals, 2015 - Northwest Regional Barista Champi...