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Making Coffee with Lucia Solis

Making Coffee with Lucia Solis

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A behind the scenes look at what goes into making one of the world's favorite beverages. Lucia is a former winemaker turned coffee processing specialist. She consults with coffee growers and producers all over the world giving her a unique perspective into the what it takes to get a coffee from a seed to your cup.

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  • The Coffee Producer Toolkit #4: Marketing & Sales

    The Coffee Producer Toolkit #4: Marketing & Sales
    Sep 14 2026
    Support the show on PatreonIn this fourth episode, we give you a practical guide to finding buyers and selling your coffee into the specialty market.And we finish with the sales conversation itself: the questions to ask in your first five minutes with a buyer, and how to handle the rejection that's coming, because it is coming.The Coffee Producer Toolkit is the podcast that helps you run a more profitable coffee farm.Hosted by coffee journalist James Harper (Filter Stories podcast) and fermentation specialist Lucia Solis (Making Coffee with Lucia Solis podcast), it's built for farmers who want to run their farm like the business it is.Related podcast episodes:Lucia:#54: Visiting Producers, Advanced Tourism & The Coffee Hunter (farm visits, the buyer relationship)#56: Pranoy Thipaia (finding export markets, expo advice)#65: To Blend or Not to Blend? Wine Vintages, and Harvest Update (sales strategy, consistency over novelty)Cabal Cafe Podcast en EspanolJames:Filter Stories: The Hard Business of Selling Beautiful CoffeeFollow us through our newsletters and Social media:Lucia’s NewsletterJames’s NewsletterLucia InstagramJames’ Filter Stories InstagramPeople mentioned in the episode:Diego Robelo — Aquiares Estate, Turrialba, Costa RicaCristian Reyes — Finca El Rodeo, Santander, ColombiaCristian Reyes — Personal InstagramCatherine Bedoya — Eje Cafetero, ColombiaHamsini Appadurai — Sangameshwar Coffee Estates, Chikmagalur, IndiaMelissa de Gasperín — Rancho San Felipe, Veracruz, MexicoEdilberto Tovar — Finca La Esmeralda, Huila, ColombiaDesnudo Coffee (Austin) — Austin, Texas, USAAlejandro Rodríguez Delgado — Hacienda San Pedrito, Puerto RicoCésar Marín — Chacra D'Dago, PeruResources: Algrano — Producer Sign UpThe list of 144 international trade showsClases Gratis de Inglés en linea - USA LearnsClases Gratis de Inglés en linea - Voa NewsEnglish Accent TrainingThe SCA Coffee Value Assessment, Extrinsic Criteria ListPDFs of CVA Form in 7 languagesCover Art: Nick HafnerThe Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations:The Coffee Quest | BWT | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainProSupport the showSupport the show
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    59 mins
  • The Coffee Producer Toolkit #3: Fermentation

    The Coffee Producer Toolkit #3: Fermentation
    Aug 24 2026
    Support the show on PatreonIn this third episode, we give you a practical manual to take control of your fermentations and improve your farm's profitability. We start with the basics — what is actually happening inside your tank, where the microbes come from, and why your coffee is going to ferment whether you want it to or not. Then we go through five ways commercial microbes can make you money: consistency batch to batch, long fermentations you can run safely, lifting the score of your worst cherries rather than your best, clearing bottlenecks in your wet mill, and extending your coffee's shelf life. We cover what a well-run fermentation actually looks like — the cleaning, the monitoring, the record-keeping — with a step-by-step blue-barrel protocol for smaller farms and guidance on when to move to tanks. We also look at the investment sums needed for commercial yeasts and how to justify them. And we finish with the difficult questions — the environmental worries, whether using a starter culture is the same as adulterating your coffee, and how to talk about all of this with buyers who may view commercial microbes with suspicion.Related podcast episodes:Lucia: #72: Planning Your First Coffee Fermentation Trials? Start Here. #76: How Commercial Microbes Threaten The Coffee Industry#80: How Microbiology Can Explain Beginner's LuckJames:Filter Stories - Coffee Quality, Part 1: The birth of specialty coffee flavoursFollow us through our newsletters and Social media:Lucia’s NewsletterJames’s NewsletterLucia InstagramJames’ Filter Stories InstagramPeople mentioned in the episode:Lester Lerner, Old Willow Coffee, Colombia Victor Chala, Palma Rosa, Colombia Fridolin Stocker— Mount Sunzu, ZambiaShyira washing station, RwandaEvangelos Filippatos, La CabraLa Cabra, CopenhagenHelen Riley — NovonesisGunne Øregaard — NovonesisFranz Zeimetz — Lost Origin Coffee Labs, PanamaAlejandra Rodríguez Delgado — Hacienda San Pedrito, Puerto RicoGustavo Arroyo — Rancho Contento, Puerto RicoResources: pH meter & bufferThermometerNovonesis Pichia yeastNovonesis Lactobacillus bacteriaPressure washerFermentation Log SheetYeast’s impact on the environment in research on vineyardsSprudge Best Of Panama coverageLucia’s Fermentation Training CampCoffee Wet Mill SanitizeOpciones para la desinfección del beneficioCabal Cafe Podcast en Espanol Lucia's Favorite Tools:Temperature GunAmbient Temperature SensorTemperature ProbepH meter & buffer solution Cover Art: Nick HafnerThe Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations:The Coffee Quest | BWT | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainProSupport the show
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • The Coffee Producer Toolkit #2: Processing

    The Coffee Producer Toolkit #2: Processing
    Aug 10 2026
    In this second episode, we show you how to stop losing coffee to a badly calibrated pulper, why chasing 100% ripe cherries is actually costing you money, the $480 fix that lets a small farm sort cherries perfectly well, how to keep your coffee under 40°C during drying without spending a fortune, why a mechanical dryer isn't the villain everyone says it is, the cheap instruments that will deliver consistent quality across harvests, and ways to treat your wastewater. The Coffee Producer Toolkit is the podcast that helps you run a more profitable coffee farm. Hosted by coffee journalist James Harper (Filter Stories podcast) and fermentation specialist Lucia Solis (Making Coffee with Lucia Solis podcast), it's built for farmers who want to run their farm like the business it is.Over two years we interviewed 50+ producers and experts across 20 countries. Each episode takes one part of the business — agronomy, processing, fermentation, storage, quality, sales — and lays out what the best farms are doing.Related podcast episodes:Lucia:Making Coffee with Lucia Solis — How to De-Funkify your Naturals Making Coffee with Lucia Solis — Germination: A Close Look at Coffee Drying James:Filter Stories: Why One Colombian Farmer Chose Specialty, and the Other Walked AwayFollow us through our newsletters and Social media:Lucia’s NewsletterJames’s NewsletterLucia InstagramJames’ Filter Stories InstagramPeople mentioned in the episode:Lester Lerner, Old Willow Coffee, Colombia Orlando Osorio, La Primavera, Colombia Astrid Medina, Tolima, Colombia David Velásquez, Los Naranjos, El Salvador Jesús Antonio Chala, Finca El Silencio, ColombiaVictor Chala, Palma Rosa, Colombia Melissa de Gasperín, Rancho San Felipe, Córdoba, Mexico Norberto Suárez, Boquete, Panama César Marín, Chacra D'Dago, Peru Manuel Matta, Santa Maria, Colombia Resources: Innovakit: canguaro (picking sleeves) Pinhalense Cherry Floater Pinhalense Vertical Pulper Pinhalense Mechanical Dryers Tolva — Plastic Vertical Hopper Moisture Meter (Mid Tier) Moisture Meter (High End) Cenicafé Low-Water Wet Milling (Ecomill-type systems) Flávio Borém Drying Research DIY Moisture Maths (weight + fixed volume) Lucia's Favorite Tools:Temperature GunAmbient Temperature SensorTemperature ProbepH meter & buffer solution Cover Art: Nick HafnerThe Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations:The Coffee Quest | BWT | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainProSupport the show
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    1 hr and 6 mins
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