Making Coffee with Lucia Solis

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The Coffee Producer Toolkit #4: Marketing & Sales

Support the show on Patreon In this fourth episode, we give you a practical guide to finding buyers and selling your coffee into the specialty market. And we finish wit

Sep 14
58 min

The Coffee Producer Toolkit #3: Fermentation

Support the show on Patreon In this third episode, we give you a practical manual to take control of your fermentations and improve your farm's profitability. We

Aug 24
1 h 07 min

The Coffee Producer Toolkit #2: Processing

In this second episode, we show you how to stop losing coffee to a badly calibrated pulper, why chasing 100% ripe cherries is actually costing you money, the $480 fix tha

Aug 10
1 h 06 min

The Coffee Producer Toolkit #1: Farming

The Coffee Producer Toolkit is the podcast that can help you run a more profitable coffee farm. Hosted by coffee journalist James Harper (Filter Stories podcast) and fe

Jul 27
1 h 06 min

#81: Nobody Wants to Pick Coffee

Check out our YouTube videos AI writing shape Support the show on Patreon to join our live Discord hangouts, and get access to research papers, transcripts and videos.

Jul 16
45 min

#80: How Microbiology Can Explain Beginner's Luck

Buy Roasted Coffee Here. Check out our YouTube videos #63: Terroir for Busy People Dirty Jobs Hawaiian Coffee Clip Support the show on Patreon to join our live Disco

Jun 30
35 min

#79: Farm First: Lalo Perez on Long-Term Coffee Health

Lalo's substack page Ikaria Coffee (Lalo's farm + roasted coffee) Biofilia (agronomic consultancy) Support the show on Patreon to join our live Discord hang

Apr 6
1 h 39 min

#78: What Is Specialty Coffee? And Who Gets To Define It?

If you would like to watch our YouTube video on "What is specialty coffee" You can watch that here. If you are a roaster and are interested in participating in the Ferm

Mar 18
44 min

#77: The Most Challenging Harvest We've Had

Roasterkat IG Reel about rain. YouTube version of the Q&A portion James Hoffmann Healthy Coffee Video The 2025/2026 Harvest has not gone according to plan. Nick and

Dec 24 2025
30 min

#76: How Commercial Microbes Threaten The Coffee Industry

Sprudge Best Of Panama Article Remanence and survival of commercial yeast in different ecological niches of the vineyard Responses, Inquiries, & questions about coffee

Nov 16 2025
1 h 16 min

#75: Getting Great Water for Coffee

Water massively impacts your coffee's flavours. But most of us struggle to fix our water because water science is confusing... Join me and James as we go step-by-st

Aug 14 2025
1 h 13 min

#74: Supply Chain Reflections: Consulting Insights from Farm to Roaster w/ Luke Waite

Resources: Responses, Inquiries, & questions about coffee sales or future Fermentation Training Camps: info.luxiacoffee@gmail.com Get a ticket to FTC-10 December 2025

Jul 14 2025
1 h 10 min

#73: Cultivating Identity: A Life Forged by Migration and Fermentation

This episode developed thanks to Nick, who thought it would be a good time to revisit a bit of my history in coffee to reconnect with long-time listeners, and to share a

Jun 18 2025
1 h 04 min

#72: Planning Your First Coffee Fermentation Trials? Start Here.

Today's episode offers a behind the scenes view of how I approach a coffee producer's first time using yeast for their coffee fermentations. We run through all

May 26 2025
42 min

#71: How to De-Funkify Your Naturals and Get Them to Dry Faster.

#54: Visiting Producers, Advanced Tourism & The Coffee Hunter with Tom of Sweet Maria’s #57: Will Frith Solves Terroir & Other Lessons From Vietnam Resources: Inquirie

May 1 2025
1 h 00 min

#70: What do coffee cascara and rose wine have in common? Roasted coffee labels, batching your cherries over multiple days

Some of the questions in this episode: What typically happens to the water, along with cascara and whatever else is part of a fermentation, after the fermentation has be

Apr 15 2025
44 min

#69: Whole Coffee Cherry Fermentations—The Multiple Paradoxes of Naturals

This episode is a final harvest update and the behind the scenes of performing whole cherry fermentation with various microbes in an attempt to create a Dry Process/Natur

Mar 30 2025
48 min

#68: Fermentation vs. Germination: A Look at The Seed From The Inside, Out

I have wanted to make this episode for a long time, but I wasn't sure how to make it work. Finally some research for Dr. Flavio Borem helped crack the topic for me a

Dec 3 2024
36 min

#67: Addressing Climate Collapse & Coffee Labor in Brazil with Ana Luiza of Fazenda Mió

In this episode we talk about: How Ana decided to join the family business after pursuing a career in art.The advantages and drawback of growing coffee in a "Full Sun" s

Sep 4 2024
1 h 00 min

#66: Winemaker Tools for Coffee Producers: Sugar & Acid Additions, Co-Fermentation w/ Fruit

I was going to create a new episode about Infused vs Inoculated Coffees, but much of what we established back in Episode #39 is still relevant. So I am pulling a Taylor S

Aug 23 2024
1 h 06 min

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To answer my title, I don’t know. I first heard of Lucia’s work in 2017 from Heleanna in Ethiopia. And it took me 6 years to listen to episode 1 ! The podcast is both very relatable, even while trying to make concepts I find fairly challenging more accessible. Lucia seems to really want people to get it, and I think that’s what makes someone a good teacher. Some of this is very provocative and makes a listener like me spin off different ideas, even opposing ones or to want to add something else to an issue I find missing … and to me that’s really the hallmark of good “content”. It activates the listener, provokes you to think about the ideas in to respond. and Lucia accommodates this dialogue through her Patreon dialogues where people can submit questions or be involved in a informal conversation. If you have an interest in coffee, in sensory science, or chemistry, I think you can approach this podcast from many directions and find it enriching. The way Lucia talks, shares information and opinion, and brings up her own experiences that can_or even contradict and complicate other parts of the message, only enrich the listening experience for me. I see another review where somebody criticizes this exact point, the fact she was a late comer to Coffee, and it was not that appealing to her, or that her podcast isn’t “sterile “ enough?!? . Well, I find those all to be the strong points of her work that she doesn’t generously shares here, and I suppose some reviews nullify themselves by their own choice of words. Lol.

Sweetmarias · May 2023

Lucia has consistently delivered not just information about the world of coffee processing but she ushers the listener into actually understanding the landscape of this important topic and creates at the kind of feeling all of us in coffee want to create in those we serve - deep appreciation for coffee and thirst to know more.

Chris Deferio · Apr 2022

Easily the best resource I’ve happened across over the world of coffee. Lucia is intelligent and friendly making me the podcast fun and educational. I can honestly say this podcast has been instrumental in my shift into the coffee industry - I’m very grateful for Lucia and all the little microbes that make good coffee possible! 🦠☕️☺️

Stephen Enke · Mar 2020

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