Calendar with Friends: Recent Episodes
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Calendar with Friends is a new podcast and subscription box curated by coffee roasters for coffee lovers! Calendar is a seasonal roastery based on the west coast of Ireland and every month, they sit down and have a chat with some of their favourite and most influential people in the coffee industry.
This month, we sit down with Talor from TalorMade in Oslo, Norway. Her company combines coffee and donuts in the most wonderful way possible. She operates a bakery, roastery and 3 retail shops so it’s safe to say this woman knows a thing or two about running a business!
For our August episode, we sit down with Markus Vestergaard from Morgon Coffee Roasters, based in Gotenburg Sweden. We learn about how the company started and how the co-founders brought their collective experience together to build one of our favorite roasteries! We discuss their approach to sourcing and the benefits of building relationships with producers, and we finish things off with Markus’s top tips for running a successful coffee company.
This month, we sit down with Stephen Houston from Lucid Coffee Roasters, a brand new roastery based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. We talk about the various challenges he faced when setting up his business, why competing has been an important part of his coffee journey and he shares some useful tips and tricks for running a successful roastery. We had so much fun recording this conversation and hope you enjoy listening!
This month, we sit down with Sophie Smith from Hard Lines Coffee Roasters who are based in Cardiff, South Wales. In this chat, we discuss how branding plays a vital role in establishing a coffee company's identity and how Hard Lines are making strides to make specialty coffee more accessible.
In this episode, we chat to the wonderful James Bailey of Workshop Coffee. We discuss coffee from seed to cup and delve into some of the processes behind running a quality focused roastery.
In our very first episode, we sit down with Colin Harmon, founder of 3FE Coffee in Dublin. We get stuck into everything from building a brand, to wholesaling coffee and why ultimately keeping it simple is a good thing!