Anything But Coffee

Ho ho holy cow - it's the Christmas episode and the end of the first season of Anything But Coffee!!! What started out as a bit of a joke has taken quite a bit of momentum - and to be honest I could say the same about most endeavours in my life - but this has been a really lovely project over the past few months and I'm genuinely blown away by the response to it. To wrap up the season I'm coming i...

Controversy! Scandal! Outrage! No not quite. On this episode I sat down with the lovely Rosie Lowery who works at Oatly in the UK. Rosie and I have known each other for a few years now, and when I originally asked her to take part in this show she was still working with the good folks La Marzocco. We've just both been busy as hell the last few months, but we finally made some time to sit down and...

On this episode, I'm sitting down with the joyous, kind and lovely Josh Trathen. Josh and I met earlier this year as we trained in the lead-up to the London Coffee Masters finals and we just hit it off. We'd seen a lot of each other peripherally as you do in the industry, and once we met and talked it was one of those moments where you're like 'How the hell haven't we hung out before?' Since then,...

This is anything but a coffee episode...  Like any good parent should, I'll always say I love all my podcast guests equally - but I love Megan more equally than the others. No offense to anyone out there, but Megs and I have a bond made of glitter, makeup, trauma-dumping and nail polish - all of which I'm guessing are thicker than water. Megan Corness is the Marketing Manager for Nuova Distributio...

And we're back from the break with another episode to keep you full, satisfied and content with content. This week I'm sitting down with Alex Dantes-Smith who's head of retail in Europe for Fellow Products. I'm filter coffee obsessed and am therefore a bit of a fanboy for Fellow's kit, but I've known Alex for a few years now through this mad old coffee industry and am an even bigger fan of the man...

I'm chatting with Sam Hopper who manages Cafe Oscars in Ladywell. I'm super biased about this place as I helped open it back in 2019, but with a bespoke house espresso from Assembly and a rotation of the best roasters in the world on guest I still think folks in London sleep on this place. If you've not been, you need to fix that ASAP. We sat down outside in the back garden at Oscars at the end of...

This week I'm speaking to Zach Chipp of Chipp Coffee Co. in Leeds. Zach's one of the good guys out there and Chipp is a roastery who always succeeds in putting smiles on their customers faces. Instagram

This week I'm speaking to Adam Innes - or ' adamscoffeeglasgow ' as his instagram handle reads. Adam is a well-known coffee creative producing fun yet accessible videos for coffee making as well as really out-there content including his now infamous Bolognese Latte video with 4.4 million views.

It's always a pleasure to spend time with the Qween herself - Roosa Jalonnen, reigning 2024 UK Barista Champion and the EU Sales Director for Forest Coffee who lists some of the best Colombian coffee you'll find on the market. We were able to catch up in my hotel room during the Bristol Coffee Festival weekend. Links: KAWA Finca Takesi from Coffee Collective Känkkäränkkä Geordie Wine Guide    

This week is as informal as it gets with the gorgeous Liam Chau from High Grade Coffee in Shoreditch. High Grade is inconspicuous from the outside, but the second you step in you're greeted by their high-tech Bellwether roaster and a small yet wonderfully curated retail offering of their coffee and handmade ceramics from Chicoa . It's a real labour of love and every time I visit, I feel it instant...

For this week's episode, I'm sitting down with Will Woodhouse Banks - a seasoned coffee competitor and an all-around lovely person. Will is also the host of the podcast 'Hello Judges' - a deeply informative forum where Will interviews many of the top coffee competitors from around the world. I'm an avid listener of the Hello Judges programme and was thrilled to be able to speak to Will. This week...

For our first episode, I'm speaking with Alix Walper - a fellow MFer who's based in the US. She was over visiting the team in London and I kinda cornered her as I wanted to kick off this podcast with someone familiar.  The coffee Alix shared as her favourite was from Proud Mary and was their natural Costa Rican from Villa Sarchi Alix mentions the film 'Perfect Days' - which is by Wim Wenders and n...