Podcast appearances and mentions of matt perger

It's time for a COFFEE BREAK yooo! How can AI help to roast coffee beans? What kind of impact will AI have on artisanal experiences? Why is Japan overtaking Melbourne as the global mecca of coffee? These are some of the questions running through our mind after our incredible chat with Matt Perger.  And…stick around for the most important question of all - Who has better meat pies, Australia or New Zealand?? Coffee Break is your weekly inside scoop into the coffee community. Everything from on the fly barista tips, honest and unfiltered cafe reviews (eek), hospitality stories and gate kept coffee secrets. Love our content? Watch Tuesday's full episode and all other past eps on YouTube or find them in your podcast feed - and follow us @itsjustcoffee on Instagram! Want more of Rohan and Kirk? (duh)  Rohan Cooke - @goldenbrown.coffee Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/goldenbrown.coffee?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==  Kirk Pearson - @kirkthebarista Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kirkthebarista?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==  Project Zero Coffee - @projectzero.coffee  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/projectzero.coffee?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==  Plus!! Get your hands on some quality beans for home brewing at Golden Brown Coffee.   Want to get in touch? Hit us up at hello@itsjustcoffeepod.com for any questions or comments. Proudly sponsored by Eco Barista! Find them: @ecobarista Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/eco_barista?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==   Website:https://www.ecobarista.com.au/  Thankyou for listening, love ya!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greetings earthlings.  Today we are joined by Matt Perger, a two time world champion barista, award-winning writer, Founder of Barista Hustle and coffee roaster from Melbourne!  We're asking Matt - Is AI friend or foe?! Join us as we deep dive into AI in the coffee industry - from the AI you didn't even know you were using, to its role in optimising logistics, automating coffee shops, and tracking consumer behaviour.  Matt has always been pushing the boundaries of coffee science. He's the Barista who popularised using the EK43 grinder for espresso, sieved coffee grinds for uniform particle size in the WBrC and designed his own tamper (amongst other things). It was epic to hear his take on the future of the industry - he's a self proclaimed technooptimist! In Coffee (fake) News: Articles circulate claiming a cup of coffee will now cost $12 in Australia, but where are we pulling this number from?  Plus!! The hot takes are just getting hotter, with a new city potentially overtaking Melbourne as the coffee capital..? We also deep dive into our dream coffee setup if money were no object! If you're new here (welcome), our show dives into some of the best coffee conversations on the internet, but we will always remind ourselves at the end of the day; It's Just Coffee! It was such a fantastic and informative episode. Massive thanks to Matt for joining the show and sharing his wealth of knowledge. Find Matt at - @matt.perger Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/matt.perger/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet Barista Hustle - @baristahustle Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/baristahustle?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==  Get more information on AI at - https://www.lesswrong.com/  Where to find us: Rohan Cooke - @goldenbrown.coffee Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/goldenbrown.coffee?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==  Kirk Pearson - @kirkthebarista Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kirkthebarista?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==  Proudly sponsored by Eco Barista! Find them: @ecobarista Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/eco_barista?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==   Website:https://www.ecobarista.com.au/  Want more coffee content? Follow us on instagram @itsjustcoffee or browse all of our content here. Love you for listening! Want to get in touch? Hit us up at hello@itsjustcoffeepod.com for any questions or comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entrepreneur and specialty coffee personality, Matt Perger joins James Henderson for this episode. Reusable face masks are here - https://bit.ly/QTMasks - Please note: the recording quality isn't always to our network standard - instead, we're focused on distributing information from those affected as quickly as possible, to find solutions together.

Barista, Roaster, Green Coffee Buyer and Researcher, Matt Perger is a true purveyor of coffee. He's won multiple competitions, including the World Brewers Cup in 2012, World Coffee in Good Spirits Competition in 2014 and placed twice in the World Barista Championship - third in 2011 and second in 2013. Matt is often recognised in the coffee industry for his publication, Barista Hustle. He's a partner at Sensory Lab Coffee Roasters and also works with St Ali in Melbourne, Australia.  In Matt's words, he loves ‘details, science and taste'.

Our last episode with Matt Perger covered an interesting conversation about extraction and where we might be wrong. This week, we hear from Matt on Turkish Coffee with an impromptu guest appearance by "Coffee Historian" Professor Jonathan Morris. We finish this episode with an update on my trip to New Zealand.Episode ReferencesCoffee: A Global History (Jonathan Morris)A book worth reading if you like coffee history with a link to a discountBarista Hustle (Jeremy Challender on Barista Hustle Team Youtube)The WendelhoffBarista Hustle (Jeremy Challender)Cezve Ibrik Brew GuideBarista Hustle (Barista Hustle Team)Coffee Course and CertificationBarista Hustle (Barista Hustle Team)Barista Hustle InstagramMr. Universe - "McDonald's" Quote (Jim Gaffigan)Jim Gaffigan YouTube Channel

Extraction is a hot topic on the consumer-facing side of the coffee industry. Are you over extracting your cup of coffee? What if we discovered we were thinking of extraction all wrong?

Coffee education can often be a mixed bag. While resources presenting information on coffee and barista work abound, it is hard to come by reliable and well researched best practices that will genuinely help you make better coffee. Enter Matt Perger and Barista Hustle. Arguably one of the best coffee education platforms in the world, Barista Hustle focuses on providing trustworthy foundations in coffee education that you can build your knowledge base on and advance knowing it is built on sure footing. Matt's own propensity for wanting to solve tricky problems in the coffee industry along with relying on a strong community of like minded coffee professionals has fueled the success of Barista Hustle and impacted the global coffee scene in a massive way. Today we sit down with him to discuss what drives him in his pursuit of helping the world make better coffee, the founding principles of Barista Hustle, the importance of being expert in the basics, in-house training, proper use of outside resources, how the educational modules are built, the new Barista Hustle Unlimited education Subscription service, and Matt's advice for what we should focus on in the retail coffee world to do better in training and education.  I am so thankful and honored to print this conversation to you and I hope you both enjoy and benefit from it!  Stay tuned in through the end to hear a clip from upcoming Guest, James Harper's "Filter Stories" podcast. James will be talking with me about the power of story in an episode airing on September 25th. www.filterstories.org    Links for Barista Hustle: www.baristahustle.com Facebook Instagram  Twitter  

Izaz Zainal Abidin- The man behind soul sacrifice's operation. Soul Sacrifice is a café named after Santana’s 1969 instrumental hit, If you haven’t checked out the Legendary 1969 Live in Woodstock video than you know what to do. Youtube it! Izaz was born in 1985, in Ampang. He was born and Raised in Taman TAR (Tunku Abdul Razak) Freedom and flexibility was the mantra they lived by at home, which resonates in his mellowish- laidback vibe that he portraits as a person. After attending St. John High school, Izaz went on to pursuit a Foundation of IT Programme @ KBU before flying off to Melbourne to begin his RMIT days! Izaz consideres Melbourne as his playground to discover himself and his love for coffee. This is where he first started working as a barista, in a Malaysian Restaurant based in Melbourne, alongside other cafes such a Reverence Coffee Roasters and also Sensory Lab where the likes of Matt Perger started of in his younger barista days. Upon coming back to Malaysia, Izaz decided not to be part of the corporate life but to continue his learning process in the coffee industry from the experts in Artisan Coffee Roasters during their early starting up days as the employee number 2. All in all, Izaz is definitely a world citizen who traveled around Europe and got the inspiration to start his own café. Soul Sacrifice has nothing to do with sacrificing your soul, it’s all about the moments you have with a cup of coffee and soulful meal. https://instagram.com/soulsac

In this very special episode, we announce the 2017 Sprudgie Awards Finalists! Listen to find out who got nominated!   Notable Roaster Take Flight Coffee (Los Angeles) Onyx Coffee Lab (Bentonville, AR) Assembly Coffee (London) Colonna Coffee (Bath, UK) Maquina Coffee Roasters (Oakland) Talor & Jorgen (Oslo)   Notable Coffee Producer Jose Gallardo (Panama) Marta Dalton (Guatemala) Aida Batlle (El Salvador) The Producers of Port of Mokha (Yemen) La Palma el Tucan (Colombia) Ernesto Menendez (El Salvador)   Best New Product December Dripper Kruve BRO Stagg EKG Barista Hustle Tamper World Specialty Coffee Map by Cafe Imports   Best Coffee Video / Film “The Young And The Spoonless” by Cafe Imports “I Yelp By The Way” by Dapper & Wise Coffee Roasters “The Race to Save Coffee” by the Washington Post RealChrisBaca on Youtube Clive Coffee on Youtube James Hoffmann on Youtube   Best Coffee Writing WIKARCS by Colin Harmon “New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History” by Erin Meister Ashley Rodriguez for Barista Magazine Online Jenn Chen (collected works) RJ Joseph (collected works) Kelly Stein (collected works)   Best Coffee Magazine Standart Drift Roast Barista Magazine Caffeine Revista Magazine   Best Coffee Instagram / Twitter Account Coldbrew420 Letsbrew.coffee Matt Perger 3000 Thieves Jenn Chen Michelle Johnson   Best Coffee Podcast The Coffee Podcast Cat & Cloud Boss Barista Keys to the Shop Tamper Tantrum Racist Sandwich   Best Coffee Subscription Service Dept of Brewology Barista Hustle Sudden Coffee Compelling Coffee Angel’s Cup The Coffeevine   Best Design / Packaging Stumptown Methodical Coffee Brandywine Coffee Roasters Talor & Jorgen Thou Mayest Little Wolf   Best New Cafe Narrative Coffee (Everett, WA) Cherry Street Public House (Seattle, WA) Love Supreme Portobello (Dublin) Nemesis Coffee (Vancouver, BC) Center Coffee (Seoul) Catalyst Coffee (Auckland, NZ)   Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence Miki Suzuki  Mokhtar Alkhanshali Department of Brewology Pamela Chng  Abner Roldan & Karla Ly Quiñones García  Cole & Aisha Pew

We’re so excited to be joined on the episode by Matt Perger, founder of Barista Hustle and World Brewers Cup champion, talking all about approachability, coffee geekery, cafe vibes, keys to making better coffee at home, and the exciting new roadmap for Barista Hustle. Do NOT miss this episode!

Another week, another Tamper Tantrum first: Nick Cho brought some structure to Colin & Steve’s bickering at the end of our day in New York by moderating a full-on debate on the subject of barista competitions. Colin & Matt Perger argue for the motion “barista competitions are dead”; Steve and Jenn, against. Stakes are high as both sides try to win the audience over and avoid embarrassment: the losing side has to read real-life yelp reviews in their best non-native accent.   What do you think? Are barista competitions dead?

Another week, another Tamper Tantrum first: Nick Cho brought some structure to Colin & Steve’s bickering at the end of our day in New York by moderating a full-on debate on the subject of barista competitions. Colin & Matt Perger argue for the motion “barista competitions are dead”; Steve and Jenn, against. Stakes are high as both sides try to win the audience over and avoid embarrassment: the losing side has to read real-life yelp reviews in their best non-native accent.   What do you think? Are barista competitions dead?

 After a quick detour into the business of brewing, we’re diving back into bias—but from a completely different perspective. The morning presentations by Meister, Michelle Johnson, and Jenn Chen in New York introduced us to the effect of bias on the industry as people, influencing our career paths, who we hire as employees, how we treat our customers (and how they treat us), the places in which we choose to operate, and the impact on all of the communities we touch as an industry. This week’s video, presented by none-other than Tamper Tantrum Live veteran Matt Perger, examines how bias affects the other primary part of the coffee industry: our product. “Lemon Juice”, in true Perger fashion, doles out some much-needed tough love in an incredibly approachable way, all whilst looking at how cognitive bias affects everything from our equipment choice to our roasting style. This is, as Matt suggested, truly a look at “five ways to push past your inner Dunning-Kruger”—and a great impetus to think about what we can do to improve coffee quality in the coming years. New Year’s resolution, anyone? --Everything Matt does is focused on consistency, accuracy and deliciousness. People around the world know him as the Barista who popularised using the EK43 grinder for espresso, sieved coffee grinds for uniform particle size in the WBrC and designed his own tamper (amongst other things). He's the World Brewers Cup Champion for 2012, and has placed 2nd (2013) and 3rd (2011) in the World Barista Championships. In 2014, he was the Coffee in Good Spirits World Champion. Matt is a partner at Sensory Lab in Melbourne Australia where he come up with new and exciting ideas to make coffee better. Barista Hustle is where he shares everything he's learnt so far, interacting with the Barista community and exploring the cutting edge of our craft.

After a quick detour into the business of brewing, we’re diving back into bias—but from a completely different perspective. The morning presentations by Meister, Michelle Johnson, and Jenn Chen in New York introduced us to the effect of bias on the industry as people, influencing our career paths, who we hire as employees, how we treat our customers (and how they treat us), the places in which we choose to operate, and the impact on all of the communities we touch as an industry. This week’s video, presented by none-other than Tamper Tantrum Live veteran Matt Perger, examines how bias affects the other primary part of the coffee industry: our product. “Lemon Juice”, in true Perger fashion, doles out some much-needed tough love in an incredibly approachable way, all whilst looking at how cognitive bias affects everything from our equipment choice to our roasting style. This is, as Matt suggested, truly a look at “five ways to push past your inner Dunning-Kruger”—and a great impetus to think about what we can do to improve coffee quality in the coming years. New Year’s resolution, anyone? --Everything Matt does is focused on consistency, accuracy and deliciousness. People around the world know him as the Barista who popularised using the EK43 grinder for espresso, sieved coffee grinds for uniform particle size in the WBrC and designed his own tamper (amongst other things). He's the World Brewers Cup Champion for 2012, and has placed 2nd (2013) and 3rd (2011) in the World Barista Championships. In 2014, he was the Coffee in Good Spirits World Champion. Matt is a partner at Sensory Lab in Melbourne Australia where he come up with new and exciting ideas to make coffee better. Barista Hustle is where he shares everything he's learnt so far, interacting with the Barista community and exploring the cutting edge of our craft.

We are celebrating the finalists in the 2016 Sprudgie Awards. Notable Roaster Each year our readers nominate outstanding coffee roasters around the world for the Notable Roaster Sprudgie Award. Unlike many of the other categories, Notable Roaster nominees need not be brands or products that debuted in 2016; rather, we look to this award as a way for our readers to honor coffee roasting companies, big and small, that turned in an especially notable year of work. This year’s nominees are: Counter Culture Coffee (Durham, North Carolina)   Koppi (Helsingborg, Sweden) Colonna Coffee (Bath, United Kingdom) Market Lane Coffee (Melbourne, Australia) Populace Coffee (Detroit, Michigan) Starbucks Reserve (Seattle, Washington)  Best New Cafe Cafes are the beating heart of coffee culture, and each year we are delighted to see the cafe form grow and morph in new and exciting ways. Our readers have selected a stunning array of new cafes from around the world for this year’s Sprudgie Awards, each of which opened during the past calendar year. And the nominees are: La Marzocco Cafe at KEXP (Seattle, Washington)   La Fontaine de Belleville (Paris, France) Tartine Manufactory (San Francisco, California) Black Fox Coffee (New York City) Cat & Cloud Coffee (Santa Cruz, California) All Day MIA (Miami, Florida)  Best New Product New products drive innovation in the coffee world, for both consumers and professionals alike. Some of these products live behind the coffee bar, making your experience more delicious one cup at a time. Others are bold, public-facing products that speak directly to consumers. The nominees for Best New Product in 2016 are: La Bodega Coffee (Minneapolis, Minnesota)   Sudden Coffee (San Francisco, California) Ona Coffee Distributor (Canberra, Australia) Third Wave Water (Cedarville, Ohio) Baratza Sette Grinder (Bellevue, Washington) Handground Precision Coffee Grinder (Dallas, Texas) Best Coffee Video / Film Coffee is a multimedia platform, inspiring expression across a variety of mediums. Each year we honor an excellent coffee video or film as part of our Sprudgie Awards tradition. This year’s nominees include a feature-length film; short promotional videos; a much-discussed speech delivered at a live speaking event; a body of work across an entire YouTube channel; and a coffee-forward dramedy on Netflix. And the nominees are: The Coffee Man — Directed by Jeff Hann, produced by Roland Fraval.   Stumptown Coffee x Portland Trail Blazers — Directed by Tim Wenzel @RealChrisBaca on Youtube — Directed and produced by Chris Baca Dapper & Wise: “Too Full” — Directed by Grahm Doughty “Coffee I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” — Talor Browne & Tamper Tantrum “Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life” — From executive producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino Best Coffee Writing Coffee’s relationship to the written word is ever-changing. From professional blogs with an industry focus to irreverent Twitter accounts and landmark expressions of personal experience, this year’s crop of Best Coffee Writing nominations takes all kinds. And the nominees are: Matt Perger for Barista Hustle   Scott Rao for ScottRao.com/blog Andy Newbom & Andrew Russo for Coffee Spanish For Coffee Buyers @ColdBrew420 on Twitter James Hoffmann for JimSeven.com Michelle Johnson for The Chocolate Barista: “The Black Cup of Excellence” Notable Coffee Producer Without coffee producers, there would be no coffee. Artisan growers are pushing boundaries every day by creating delicious coffees that express terroir and intent in equal measure. This year’s list of nominees includes some familiar names, plus several first-time noms, including our first-ever nominee from Burundi. Elkin Guzman for Finca El Mirador (Colombia) Aida Batlle for Aida Batlle Selection (El Salvador) Benjamin Paz for Beneficio San Vicente (Honduras) Gilberto Baraona for Finca Los Pirineos (El Salvador) Angele Ciza and Consolata Ndayishimye for Kahawa Link Company (Burundi) Jamison Savage and Leslie H. Freitag for Finca Deborah (Panama)  Best Coffee Magazine We are currently in a golden age for print coffee magazines, with gorgeous new glossies rubbing shoulders with established favorites. We predict a tough, close vote for this year’s Sprudgie Award for Best Coffee Magazine. Standart Magazine (Nitra, Slovakia) Drift (New York, NY) Barista Magazine (Portland, OR) Fresh Cup (Portland, OR) Caffeine Magazine (London, UK) Brygg (Oslo, Norway)  Nicest Package Design and packaging have never been more important to the coffee experience. Each week we feature coffee branding from around the world as part of our Nice Package feature series on Sprudge. This year we’re honoring packaging with the coveted Sprudgie Award for Nicest Package. Parlor Coffee (Brooklyn, NYC) Five Elephant (Berlin) La Cabra (Aarhus, Denmark) Playground Coffee (Hamburg) (via Dribble) Methodical Coffee (Greenville, SC) (via Packaging of the World) Square Mile Coffee (London) Best Coffee Subscription Each year the field for coffee subscription services becomes more and more crowded, making this particular field of Sprudgie Award noms increasingly essential. Only one of the nominated services can win, but each of the finalists you selected are doing exemplary work for happy subscribers worldwide. Kaffebox (Oslo, Norway)   Mistobox (Phoenix, Arizona) The Coffeevine (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Barista Hustle Superlatives (Melbourne, Australia) Collected Coffee (New York, NY) Bean Portal (Gothenburg, Sweden)  Best Coffee Podcast It’s never been a better time to be a coffee podcast lover, with long-running series and newcomers alike vying for ear time on your drive home. That’s why we added this new category to the 2016 Sprudgie Awards. For the first time, here are your nominees for Best Coffee Podcast: Cat & Cloud Coffee Podcast — Jared Truby and Chris Baca   Tamper Tantrum — Stephen Leighton and Colin Harmon, produced by Jenn Rugolo I Brew My Own Coffee — Brian Beyke and Bryan Schiele Opposites Extract — Joe Marrocco and Meister, produced by Andy Reiland Unpacking Coffee — Raymond and Kandace Brigleb Coffee Awesome —Bjørg Brend Laird Finest Coffee Event Another new category for the 2016 Sprudgies, this is an opportunity for our readers to honor unique coffee events around the world. From long-running international affairs to plucky brand new indie fairs, our first-ever field of nominees in this category run the gamut of event experiences. The first set of nominees for Finest Coffee Event are:  The 2016 SCAA Event — Produced by the Specialty Coffee Association of America The 2016 London Coffee Festival — Produced by Allegra Events The 2016 Mid-Atlantic Northeast Coffee Conference (MANE) — produced by Rik Kleinfeldt and New Harvest Coffee Roasters The 2016 Berlin Coffee Festival —Produced by Cory Andreen and The Berlin Coffee Festival The 2016 Tokyo Coffee Festival — Produced by Yuji Otsuki and the Tokyo Coffee Festival Barista Connect London — Produced by Sonja Zweidick and Barista Connect Outstanding Achievement in The Field of Excellence The most important Sprudgie Award is the hardest to define—this award is given to groups or individuals our readers seek to honor for their contribution to the wider coffee culture. Past awards have gone to remarkable coffee producers, game-changing green buyers, globe-spanning event organizers, and even an entire nation’s coffee growers. This year we’re overjoyed at the nominees you’ve selected for our Outstanding Achievement in The Field of Excellence. Your nominees are: Michelle Johnson for The Chocolate Barista   Jenn Chen for collected 2016 works Helen Russell & Brooke McDonald for Equator Coffees Laila Wilbur and Tracy Ging for The Coffeewoman Sonja Zweidick for Barista Connect Erna Knutsen for lifetime contributions to specialty coffee http://sprudge.com/vote  

This is the third video from the talks given in Asia (Busan, Shanghai and Taipei). Matt Perger head of coffee from St Ali, Melbourne Australia and two times WBC finalist, World Brewers cup champiopn and coffee in good spirits champion.  Matt talks to us about Brew Local and think globbal, with lots of technical brewing components, then zooming out to a more global outlook of coffee, a must watch presentation. 

This is the third video from the talks given in Asia (Busan, Shanghai and Taipei). Matt Perger head of coffee from St Ali, Melbourne Australia and two times WBC finalist, World Brewers cup champiopn and coffee in good spirits champion.  Matt talks to us about Brew Local and think globbal, with lots of technical brewing components, then zooming out to a more global outlook of coffee, a must watch presentation. 

This week Matt Perger, a competitive barista and World Brewers Cup champion, comes on the show to talk about coffee culture, bean roasting, competitive brewing, and how to make the perfect cup of coffee at home.

Welcome to Tamper Tantrum the lost files Back in the summer of 2012 myself Stephen Leighton and Colin Harmon hosted a group of 12 coffee luminaries, to come present on a coffee topic of their choice at the SCAE world of coffee event in Vienna. This was not the first time we had put on such an event, but it was the first time we didn’t have control of the AV crew for the production. The previous two events we collated a set of videos which can be viewed at Tamper Tantrum dot com. But in Vienna something went horribly wrong with the video quality we had. Although something gets lost without the visuals I decided that instead of them being lost forever, that I would make them available in audio format. This is number 6 in the series, please give it up for Mr Matt PErger

Welcome to Tamper Tantrum the lost files Back in the summer of 2012 myself Stephen Leighton and Colin Harmon hosted a group of 12 coffee luminaries, to come present on a coffee topic of their choice at the SCAE world of coffee event in Vienna. This was not the first time we had put on such an event, but it was the first time we didn’t have control of the AV crew for the production. The previous two events we collated a set of videos which can be viewed at Tamper Tantrum dot com. But in Vienna something went horribly wrong with the video quality we had. Although something gets lost without the visuals I decided that instead of them being lost forever, that I would make them available in audio format. This is number 6 in the series, please give it up for Mr Matt PErger