This episode we chat with Doug Graf and Liz Bishop from Vintage Coffee. Vintage Coffee provides consulting, training, repair and maintenance, plant design, and start up for coffee roasters of every size. Doug Graf has been in the coffee industry for over three decades in his family business whether it’s roasting coffee or helping fix the machines. Liz's coffee career has including being a barista, trainer, roaster, cafe manager, green coffee buyer, and director of coffee. Liz recently became the first female Loring Smart Roaster Service technician in the world.
Martin Elwert is the Founder of Coffee Circle in Germany. Coffee Circle is a certified B-Corporation and has been an e-commerce leader of specialty coffee across the DACH region of Europe. Martin comes from a consulting background and has used his experience to grow a successful coffee business. Listen to Martin as he tells the founding of Coffee Circle, funding to scale his business, and the importance of B-Corp to his business.
What does it look like and mean to code for the coffee industry? Nick and Norbert go into the technical minded part of coding for the coffee industry and what that journey has looked like for Cropster and beyond.
In another conversation between Nick and Norbert, we revisit what IoT means and this time we focus on how it can change the future of cafes for the better.
During our 2022 year end episode, Nick and Norbert discuss the importance of data collection at origin and why digitizing data at origin is important. This topic is so important to both of them and has been a recurring theme throughout 2022.