Producer Toolkit: Storage, Pt 2 - Why plastics are not all equal
Show notes
This episode explores the black box between coffee leaving the farm and the roaster's warehouse, and how quality can be ruined. Wrapping the coffee in any old plastic bag won't do. We get geeky looking at how hermetic bags like GrainPro actually work.
Part of The Coffee Producer Toolkit, a series made in collaboration with Lucia Solis, it will help you understand coffee farming better than most professionals you'll meet at a trade show.
Each episode takes one part of the farming business — agronomy, processing, fermentation, storage, quality, sales — and lays out what the best farms are actually doing.
Related podcast episodes:
Lucia:
James:
- Filter Stories: Farm to Port – Why Specialty Costs More
- Filter Stories: Freshness and Grinding, Pt 1 (oxidation, diffusion and how to store coffee)
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People mentioned in the episode:
- Ronald de Hommel — The Coffee Quest
- Paulino Quintero — Huila, Colombia
- Gilberto Baraona — Los Pirineos, Usulutan, El Salvador
- Marvin Tala — Engineering Department head, GrainPro Philippines
- Hazel Valera — COO, GrainPro Philippines
Resources:
- GrainPro hermetic bags, container liners
- NKG / GrainPro bag recycling
- How to Protect Coffee Against Container Rain
- Data loggers
Cover art: Nick Hafner
The Coffee Producer Toolkit is made possible by these leading coffee organisations:
The Coffee Quest | BWT water+more | Descamex | InterAmerican | Pinhalense | Novonesis | GrainPro
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