Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries

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.

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Latest Episode

How specialty coffee woke up to water’s role in flavour (28.07.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • The two ingredients in water that ruin your coffee, and the ancient story behind them 28.07.2025
  • Getting great water for coffee, step-by-step. Part 2: How to measure and treat your water 14.07.2025
  • Getting great water for coffee, step-by-step. Part 1: Alkalinity, hardness and why it matters 14.07.2025
  • Farm to port: why specialty costs more 23.06.2025
  • Why one Colombian farmer chose specialty, and the other walked away 09.06.2025
  • The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, part 2 19.05.2025
  • The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, part 1 19.05.2025
  • The Speed of Heat: How to roast more coffee, faster! 24.03.2025
  • Coffee Roasting: How baby plant food transforms into delicious coffee flavours 10.03.2025
  • Fruit juice or creamy almonds? Your guide to controlling cold brew flavors 16.02.2025
  • Hot vs Cold: The science behind temperature and taste 03.02.2025
  • Introducing: Season 3 of The Science of Coffee 27.01.2025
  • Freshness and Grinding, Part 2: How grinders work deep inside 06.05.2024
  • Freshness and Grinding, Part 1: Protecting your coffee’s flavours 22.04.2024
  • What Is Good Science? Part 2: How to think like a scientist 08.04.2024
  • What Is Good Science? Part 1: How to brew coffee like a scientist 25.03.2024
  • Organic Coffee, Part 2: Why don’t we see more organic coffee farms? 13.03.2024
  • Organic Coffee, Part 1: The magic of soil 26.02.2024
  • Coffee Roasting, Part 2: Roasting made easy 12.02.2024
  • Coffee Roasting, Part 1: How heat transforms coffee beans 29.01.2024

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