Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries

Coffee stories with an extra shot of history and science. Filter Stories is a podcast revealing coffee’s hidden microscopic secrets, its powerful past, and how your choice of beans impacts tens of millions of people. See the behind-the-scenes stories on Instagram @filterstoriespodcast. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the show and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

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Nov 20, 2019

25 min

You buying a coffee from El Salvador and Trump building a border wall have nothing in common.Or do they?Over five episodes, we explore a story of El Salvador. We confront massacres, wide inequality and the specialty coffee you drink today.Buried deep in this story is a group of people our coffee dollars are neglecting across the world.In Part 3, we discover what it takes to almost kill coffee completely.———————————Listen to the Coffee Podcast’s series on the history of the coffee price: https://thecoffeepodcast.com/2019/09/30/e137-perspectives-on-the-coffee-price-crisis-history-of-coffee-price-part-i/Also listen to the Specialty Coffee Association’s podcast with Janina Grabs on the future of the coffee market: https://scanews.coffee/podcast/59/reco-podcast-dr-janina-grabs-on-overcoming-the-single-exit-fallacy-s1-ep-4/If you haven't already, please subscribe to the show and review us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/filter-stories/id1428327760Shape the future of Filter Stories by taking this 10 minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/YWH3LZMSign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: http://www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperSound mixing: Dom Edgley / https://domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo design: https://headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Cesar Magana, Mauricio Escalón, Álvaro Castro, Emilio Lopez Diaz, Marco Ariz, Francescopaolo Marolla, Walter Retana, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation El Salvador, Rony Cordero, Cafe Salkantay Santa Ana, Jodie Cárcamo, Manuel Jesus Lopez, David Velasquez, Gilberto Baraona, Hugo Hernandez, Sara Cortez, Consejo Salvadoreño de Cafe, Tyler Wright, Josh Fontecha, Robert Durrette, Farmers First Coffee, Mauricio Benjamin Bautista Arucha, Israel Márquez, San Carlos Dos Cooperative, Sixto Ramos, Policar Siciliano, Helena Merivel Dias de Jimenez, Olga Carmel Ramirez, Azules Piedras Cooperative, Luis Ortez Ordoñez, Roberto Figero, Jesus Salvador Ortez, Victor Flores, Bronwen SernaEditorial thanks: Hannah Smith, Tina Ghelani, Adam Harper, Raymond Detweiler, Melanie Böhme, Andrew Johnson, Karin Vališová, Jesse Hartman, Matthias Staeheli
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Nov 20, 2019

25 min

Nov 12, 2019

24 min

You buying a coffee from El Salvador and Trump building a border wall have nothing in common. Or do they?Over five episodes, we explore a story of El Salvador. We confront massacres, wide inequality and the specialty coffee you drink today.Buried deep in this story is a group of people our coffee dollars are neglecting across the world. In Part 2, we reveal why our economist nicknames his own country "El Savage.”———————————If you haven't already, please subscribe to the show and review us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/filter-stories/id1428327760Shape the future of Filter Stories by taking this 10 minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/YWH3LZMTaste Maria’s coffee and support Filter Stories by joining the Indiegogo crowdfund here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/filter-stories-who-grew-your-morning-coffee/x/22081911#/Sign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: http://www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperSound mixing: Dom Edgley / https://domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo design: https://headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Cesar Magana, Mauricio Escalón, Álvaro Castro, Emilio Lopez Diaz, Marco Ariz, Francescopaolo Marolla, Walter Retana, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation El Salvador, Rony Cordero, Cafe Salkantay Santa Ana, Jodie Cárcamo, Manuel Jesus Lopez, David Velasquez, Gilberto Baraona, Hugo Hernandez, Sara Cortez, Consejo Salvadoreño de Cafe, Tyler Wright, Josh Fontecha, Robert Durrette, Farmers First Coffee, Mauricio Benjamin Bautista Arucha, Israel Márquez, San Carlos Dos Cooperative, Sixto Ramos, Policar Siciliano, Helena Merivel Dias de Jimenez, Olga Carmel Ramirez, Azules Piedras Cooperative, Luis Ortez Ordoñez, Roberto Figero, Jesus Salvador Ortez, Victor Flores, Bronwen SernaEditorial thanks: Hannah Smith, Tina Ghelani, Adam Harper, Raymond Detweiler, Melanie Böhme, Andrew Johnson, Karin Vališová, Jesse Hartman, Matthias Staeheli
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Nov 12, 2019

24 min

Nov 7, 2019

27 min

You buying a coffee from El Salvador and Trump building a border wall have nothing in common. Or do they?Over five episodes, we explore stories of El Salvador. We confront massacres, wide inequalities and the specialty coffee you drink today.Buried deep in this story is a group of people our coffee dollars are neglecting across the world. People who decide to migrate north. ———————————If you haven't already, please subscribe to the show and review us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/filter-stories/id1428327760Shape the future of Filter Stories by taking this 10 minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/YWH3LZMTaste Maria’s coffee and support Filter Stories by joining the Indiegogo crowdfund here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/filter-stories-who-grew-your-morning-coffee#/Sign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: http://www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperSound mixing: Dom Edgley / http://www.domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo design: http://www.headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Cesar Magana, Mauricio Escalón, Álvaro Castro, Emilio Lopez Diaz, Marco Ariz, Francescopaolo Marolla, Walter Retana, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation El Salvador, Rony Cordero, Cafe Salkantay Santa Ana, Jodie Cárcamo, Manuel Jesus Lopez, David Velasquez, Gilberto Baraona, Hugo Hernandez, Sara Cortez, Consejo Salvadoreño de Cafe, Tyler Wright, Josh Fontecha, Robert Durrette, Farmers First Coffee, Mauricio Benjamin Bautista Arucha, Israel Márquez, San Carlos Dos Cooperative, Sixto Ramos, Policar Siciliano, Helena Merivel Dias de Jimenez, Olga Carmel Ramirez, Azules Piedras Cooperative, Luis Ortez Ordoñez, Roberto Figero, Jesus Salvador Ortez, Victor Flores, Bronwen SernaEditorial thanks: Hannah Smith, Tina Ghelani, Adam Harper, Raymond Detweiler, Melanie Böhme, Andrew Johnson, Karin Vališová, Jesse Hartman, Matthias StaeheliThe British Ambassador’s wife was acted by Heather Simons
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Nov 7, 2019

27 min

Sep 17, 2019

18 min

We meet a man who came from humble beginnings who has achieved what Armando and Maria have only ever dreamed about. ———————————Taste Maria’s coffee and support Filter Stories by joining the Indiegogo crowdfund here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/filter-stories-who-grew-your-morning-coffee#/See the Filter Stories live show in Berlin on the 1st and 4th of October 2019: https://www.facebook.com/events/494233377792673/Sign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperMore episode information here: www.medium.com/@FilterStoriesSound mixing: Dom Edgley / www.domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo design: www.headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Ignacio Gutiérrez, Maria Zoila Pineda de Rivera, Oscar Rivera, Marco Ariz, Hotel La Palma, Piero CristianiEditorial thanks: Hannah Smith, Tina Ghelani
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Sep 17, 2019

18 min

Aug 20, 2019

27 min

Imagine you’re a coffee buyer on a mission to buy Salvadoran coffee. We visit Armando and Maria’s farms. Which farm would you choose to buy from?———————————Taste Maria’s coffee by joining the Filter Stories Indiegogo crowdfund here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/filter-stories-who-grew-your-morning-coffee#/Listen to the About Face podcast here: https://www.aboutfacepodcast.comSign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperMore episode information here: www.medium.com/@FilterStoriesSound mixing: Dom Edgley / www.domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo design: www.headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Maria Zoila Pineda de Rivera, Oscar Rivera, Marco Ariz, Ignacio GutiérrezEditorial thanks: Janina Grabs, Jenn Rugolo, Tina Ghelani, Adam HarperMaria and Santos were acted by Ana Kavalis and Eneko Sanz
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Aug 20, 2019

27 min

Aug 6, 2019

27 min

20 years ago specialty coffee patted itself on the back for saving coffee farmers, both big and small, from the misery of low coffee prices. But what's it like for a small coffee farmer getting into this specialty coffee club today?We dive into El Salvador’s Cup of Excellence to contrast the experience of two producers. ———————————Taste Maria’s coffee by joining the Filter Stories Indiegogo crowdfund here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/filter-stories-who-grew-your-morning-coffee#/Sign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperMore episode information here: www.medium.com/@FilterStoriesSound mixing: Dom Edgley / www.domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo: www.headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Maria Zoila Pineda de Rivera, Oscar Rivera, Marco Ariz, Ignacio GutiérrezEditorial thanks: Janina Grabs, Jenn Rugolo, Tina Ghelani, Adam HarperMaria was acted by Ana Kavalis
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Aug 6, 2019

27 min

Jul 2, 2019

21 min

Gerry's cafe failed. We investigate why by putting ourselves in Gerry's shoes and experiencing the coffee world as a blind man.———————————Gerry’s roastery: http://www.theunseenbean.com/More Piano music on Coffee People Zine: https://www.coffeepeople.org/pages/musicv01Sign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: https://www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperMore episode information here: https://www.medium.com/@FilterStoriesSound mixing: Dom Edgley / https://www.domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo: https://www.headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Gerry Leary, Ever Meister, Ben Cole, Kat Melheim, Sam Neely, Becca Brenowitz, Brian HergertEditorial thanks: Lerato Maphanyane, Andrew Johnson, Adam Harper, Diksha Dutta
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Jul 2, 2019

21 min

Jun 18, 2019

22 min

Gerry has a disability that keeps 2 in 3 adults out of full time work. But Gerry demolishes expectations over and over again. ————————————Gerry’s roastery: http://www.theunseenbean.com/Sign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: http://www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/filterstoriespodcast/More episode information here: http://www.medium.com/@FilterStoriesSound mixing: Dom Edgley / http://www.domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo: http://www.headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Gerry Leary, Ever Meister, Ben ColeEditorial thanks: Lerato Maphanyane, Tim Ridley, Luka Kelman, Andrew Johnson, Adam Harper.
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Jun 18, 2019

22 min

Venezuela

May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019

22 min

What do you do when you want to buy a cafe but your country is collapsing around you?————————————If you haven't already, please subscribe to the show and review us on iTunes! www.itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/filte…327760?l=en&mt=2Sign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: http://www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Recommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesPiano music composed and performed by James HarperMore episode information here: http://www.medium.com/@FilterStoriesSound mixing: Dom Edgley / http://www.domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo: http://www.headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Cesar Eduardo Bermejo and Cesar Andres Bermejo of Brew Coffee Company, John Matías, Manual Barsallo of Paddle Coffee Roasters, Giancarlo Effio of Mentiritas BlancasEditorial thanks: Tanya Newton, Tyler Wright, Jack Butcher, Adam Harper, Tom Jarz
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

May 14, 2019

22 min

Stateless

Apr 12, 2019

Apr 12, 2019

31 min

Mikhail is a specialty coffee barista. But he’s stuck on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He doesn’t want to be there and he’s trying to get off. But he can’t. There are boats and planes, but none will let him on. Mikhail is a victim of an invisible curse that affects up to tens of thousands of people who work in coffee. There is a good chance you’ve drank a coffee that was grown, picked or brewed by a stateless person.————————————If you haven't already, please subscribe to the show and review us on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/filter-stories/id1428327760?l=en&mt=2Sign up to the Filter Stories newsletter here: http://www.eepurl.com/dD-sY1Piano music composed and performed by James HarperRecommend Filter Stories to other podcast lovers on Podyssey! https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1428327760-Filter-StoriesUNHCR Statelessness: https://www.unhcr.org/stateless-people.html & https://www.unitedstateless.orgMore episode information here: https://www.medium.com/@FilterStoriesSound mixing: Dom Edgley / https://www.domedgleysound.com/Filter Stories logo: https://www.headquarters.studio/A big thanks to: Mikhail Sebastian, Lindsay Jenkins, Valerie Lowson, David Baluarte, Chris BoianEditorial thanks: Karin Vališová, Volkart Wildermuth, Kinga PeçakEpisode image © UNHCR
Check out Standart, the award-winning coffee magazine. Get a free magazine and a free bag of coffee by clicking here.Use ProfilePrint to find the coffee your customers loved last year (without a week of cupping!). Use promo code "FILTER" to get 10% off your first year of a Mini Beluga subscription. Click here to discover ProfilePrint's many uses. Support hundreds of thousands of coffee farmers with Fairtrade. Discover how here. Office coffee = easy recurring revenue. WMF’s Elevation 10 and Peak 50 do the work for you. Learn more here.  What kind of racing car does the Gaggia Classic GT home espresso machine remind you of? Use discount code FS202610 to get 10% off. 

Apr 12, 2019

31 min

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