Everyday Beans Podcast - Mostly About Coffee and Other Stuff
It's about coffee, food, life and what other randomness I feel that'll be helpful to the common coffee drinker or to anyone who likes to be entertained by a stranger, briefly.
Episodes
307 episodes
Maybe You Should Just Follow the Recipe
In this episode, I get honest about something I usually don't talk about: most days, my own coffee brewing is boring and simple. I walk through my actual go-to recipe, a short bloom, one main pour, a pulse or two, and water around 200 degrees F...
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Why Every Recipe Is a Starting Point
I've never met a coffee lesson I could skip. Every recipe, every ratio, every borrowed technique had to be lived through before it meant anything. In this episode, I make the case for structure in coffee, and the case against clinging to it too...
What the Dino Rib Taught Me About Coffee
In this episode I tell the story of smoking dino beef ribs on a brand new Weber kettle with no thermometer anywhere in sight, and how that one decision completely reframed how I think about brewing coffee. I share why not knowing the temperatur...
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The Coffee Lesson No App Can Teach
A couple of months ago, I set out to build a coffee app called Brew Outside the Box. The idea was simple: an AI companion you could talk to while you brewed, something that would answer your questions and guide you through what was happening in...
What I Stopped Tracking in My Coffee
There's stuff in coffee I stopped tracking, and it wasn't because I got lazy. It's because it stopped mattering. In this episode I sit down with the things I quietly subtracted from my routine over the years and ask myself whether they were eve...
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When the Gear Finally Goes Quiet
For years I treated the grinder, the water, and the brewer like obstacles standing between me and a good cup of coffee. In this episode I talk through how that finally changed. I walk back through my own journey, from the French press that firs...
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Revisiting Coffee: A Year of Growth
In this episode, I'm doing something I've been looking forward to for a long time — coming back to six coffees I've already judged, brewed, and roasted before. I'm calling it the rematch. These are the exact same coffees: a Colombian medium, a ...
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Tasty but Wrong
In this episode, I share one of the most disorienting brewing experiences I've had in months. I made what the numbers said was one of the worst cups I could make, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I tried a recipe from my own app using the...
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Did the Gear Save This Coffee?
In this episode, I share the story of an Ethiopian white honey processed coffee that had me ready to give up on it entirely. I kept it one-dimensional, flat, a single note of bright lemon acidity with a little chocolate on the finish. But inste...
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The Brewer Is the Recipe
In this episode, I explore a question that seems simple on the surface but actually runs deeper than most coffee conversations go: what is a recipe, really? I walk through a recent experiment where I brewed the same coffee using three different...
Why Your Coffee Kettle Can't Be Trusted
In this episode, I dig into one of the most overlooked variables in pour over coffee: kettle temperature accuracy. I ran an experiment with my Fellow Stagg Pro EKG and two separate thermometers, a cheap one around twelve dollars and a more accu...
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The Myth of the One-Pour Brewer
In this episode, I take you through one of the more humbling moments I've had as a coffee brewer. I picked up the Hario Mugen — a brewer marketed specifically as a one-pour specialist — and I went all in on mastering it. I ignored Hario's own r...
What Does Special Mean in Coffee
In this episode, I'm talking about something I don't think we discuss enough in the coffee world: what does "special" actually mean when it comes to a cup of coffee? I take you through my experience with a Colombian Java, a medium roast that co...
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Coffee Instruments: Do You Need Them?
In this episode, I reflect on a simple moment: looking at my cutting board and noticing the instruments sitting on it. No brewer, no grinder — just the tools I've come to rely on most: a refractometer, a roast degree meter, brew boosters, a Mel...
The Beauty of Meh Coffee
I've been sitting with an Ethiopian white honey coffee that I just couldn't get to click for me. I brewed it every way I could think of. Different devices, different grinders, different ratios. I went down the rabbit hole hard with this one. I ...
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The ZP6 Surprised Me
I went into this episode with something I had to get off my chest. The ZP6 surprised me, and not in the way you might expect. The marketing around this grinder tells you it is made for light roast coffee and clarity, and for a long time I accep...
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Why Winey Coffee Doesn't Move Me Anymore
In this episode, I sit with a cup of Kenyan double-washed pea berry coffee and confront a question I have been turning over for weeks: is this coffee not landing, or have I simply changed? I walk through everything I did to make it work. I roas...
When Your Palate Outgrows Your Old Favorites
In this episode, I sit down with a cup of natural processed Costa Rican coffee and get real about something I've been circling for a while: naturals just don't do it for me the way they used to. I walk through what it's like to taste this coffe...
Filter Papers: Most Overhyped Variable?
In this episode, I share the conclusion of a months-long filter paper experiment, and the answer might surprise you. I tested slow, medium, and fast filters across different coffees and roast levels, and what I discovered is that filter paper i...
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Letting the Coffee Bed Run Dry: Tool or Sin?
In this episode, I sit with a question that's been quietly bothering me about pour over brewing. Why are we so afraid to let the coffee bed run completely dry? It's one of those rules in the specialty coffee world that gets repeated until it fe...
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The Cup That Revealed My Preferences
I spent a long time chasing sweetness in coffee, and I was doing it in all the wrong places. In this episode, I take you back to the moment I was locked in on a Colombian pink bourbon, lightly roasted, brewing cup after cup on a Hario V60. I ke...
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Letting Go: Mr. Coffee and Me
In this episode, I get honest about something that might look out of place on my coffee bar — a Mr. Coffee machine sitting right there next to my Olympia Cremina, Moccamaster, dual grinders, and kettles. Someone recently asked me if I actually ...
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Why Fresh Coffee Isn't Always Best
In this episode, I'm talking about something that changed the way I enjoy coffee forever: the lifespan of a roasted bean. For years, I drank my coffee a couple of days after roast because it felt right, and I even told other people to do the sa...
Why Do You Brew Coffee?
In this episode, I get into the heart of what I believe is the foundation of any real coffee journey: knowing your why. My why is curiosity. It is wanting to understand why coffee does what it does, why it tastes the way it tastes, and why cert...
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EK 43: Why I Don't Talk About My Best Grinder
I sat down with my Mahlkönig EK 43 grinder and had an honest conversation about why I rarely talk about what might be the best piece of coffee equipment I own. After 12 years with this $3,500 grinder, I've discovered something unsettling: havin...
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