You have camping stoves in your truck bed, you have GORE-TEX® on your shoes. You can catch the aroma any direction you brew. You're on your own, and you know what you know, and these are the girls who's site is in the show notes. Today, we are pleased to welcome Megan O'Connell and Bethany Hargrove from theplaceswebrew.tumblr.com. While both working IN specialty coffee, they embrace the opportunity to disregard formalities for the simple ritual of brewing coffee. We talk about brewing...

With the US Coffee Championships Qualifying Event starting February 2nd, we're honored to welcome Jess Steffy to the podcast to talk about coffee competitions and the important role they serve. Jess is the co-owner of Square One Coffee, a certified Q Grader, chair of the US Coffee Championships Competitions Committee and head judge for the Barista Competition and Brewer's Cup. We talked with her about the format of the events, what makes for a winning routine, and what the home brewer can...

From the farms of Elida Estates and El Burro Estates in Panama, we're excited to welcome Wilford Lamastus, a fourth generation coffee producer responsible for some of the world's best coffee. We're talking about the history of the Lamastus Family Farms, the challenge that coffee producing countries face, and spilling the beans on the Geisha varietal's impact on the livelihood of coffee farmers in Panama and worldwide.

Happy New Year! On this episode we’re talking about our experience with coffee regions, coffee roasters, and coffee resolutions from 2015. While we both have our own take on what happened this past year, we’d love to hear from you! What were your favorite coffees of the year? Did you have any big surprises or expectations in 2015? Do you have any goals with coffee in 2016? Let us know on Instagram, Twitter, or by email.

We're delighted to have Mark Hellweg - Portland based entrepreneur and designer responsible for Clive Coffee and the stunning Ratio Eight Coffee Maker - on the podcast this week! We discussed Mark's story, the roles of both form and function in design, design challenges in bringing the Ratio to market, as well as some exciting upcoming projects in the works.

Coffee is meant to be shared ... that's why we're talking about a few of our favorite options for sharing coffee. Whether you're splitting a bag of coffee with a friend, swapping coffee with someone across the world, or even sending coffee to friends and loved ones as gifts, we've got some helpful advice and suggestions for you!

We're very excited to welcome the wonderful Jenn Chen to the show to chat about coffee and social media. Jenn is a freelance coffee marketer, the digital marketing manager for acaia, as well as a talented photographer, writer, and donut connoisseur.

As we bring our series of discussions about developing a balanced relationship with coffee to a conclusion, we talk in more detail about how beginners, enthusiasts, and professionals compare, contrast, and interrelate with each other. It's not just coffee ... it's also about how you approach it and make space for it alongside the rest of your life.

We're honored to be joined on this episode by the owner of Ruby Coffee Roasters, Jared Linzmeier, as we continue our series of discussions about developing a balanced relationship with coffee whether you're a beginner, enthusiast, or coffee professional. It's not just coffee ... it's also about how you approach it and make space for it alongside the rest of your life. In this episode, we discuss the challenges professionals face and some practical ways to find balance.

We're continuing our series of discussions about developing a balanced relationship with coffee whether you're a beginner, enthusiast, or coffee professional. It's not just coffee ... it's also about how you approach it and make space for it alongside the rest of your life. In this episode, we discuss the challenges coffee enthusiasts face and some practical ways we can find balance.

We're beginning a series of discussions about developing a balanced relationship with coffee whether you're a beginner, enthusiast, or coffee professional. It's not just coffee ... it's also about how you approach it and make space for it alongside the rest of your life. In this episode, we discuss the beginner. Beginners can find balance by focussing on keeping coffee simple and mindfully creating time to develop a coffee routine.

On this episode we're joined by Seth Mills, director of coffee at Mistobox Coffee, as we discuss tasting and describing coffee. Whether you're a roaster, a coffee enthusiast, or you're new to coffee, we'll cover some practical tips that will help you refine your flavor note vocabulary and even help explain what factors impact a coffee's taste to begin with.

On this week's episode we're joined by Andrew Heppner, CEO of Populace Coffee in Bay City Michigan, who has some exciting new projects to discuss (as well as a few great coffees). We're discussing their upcoming project called Habitual, a coffee brewing guide that sets out to explore the behavior behind brewing coffee, the devices used, and the environments in which the brewing takes place. Andrew also fills us in on some preliminary details of Populace's exciting coffee tasting competition...

We're pleased to have Steve Rhinehart, the brand lead for Prima Coffee, back again this week in Part 2 of our discussion about getting started with manual brewing. We're talking about grinders, scales, kettles and other devices you might want to pick up, at varying price points, to get started in manual brewing at home.

We're pleased to have Steve Rhinehart, the brand lead for Prima Coffee, joining us on the show to talk about getting started with manual brewing. We begin this 2-part series by covering some of our favorite recommended manual brewing devices to folks getting started. Next week we'll continue the discussion with Steve talking about the variety of other products at varying price points someone might need in addition to a brewing device.

Everybody's talking about cold coffee, so we are too! This week is all about the variety of ways to make cold coffee at home, options for purchasing cold coffee in the grocery store, as well as some interesting concoctions you can play around with yourself. What's your favorite way to enjoy cold coffee?

This week on the podcast we discuss a few of the top subscription coffee services and which ones might be best for you. We'd also love to hear from you! Use the hashtag #ibmoctalk and let us know on Instagram or Twitter what your favorite service is, or what you look for when signing up with a subscription coffee service.

We're excited to announce that Brian Beyke and Bryan Schiele are taking over as hosts of the I Brew My Own Coffee podcast! We'd also like to say how much we appreciate all the great work and love that Alex Carpenter put into building this amazing platform. Thanks Alex! This week we're talking about brewing coffee at the office, and some of the devices and techniques we've had success with. We also talk about a couple of interesting coffees from HoneyCo and Tweed Coffee Roasters.

Jarrod Glasgow is one part of the team behind the popular iPhone app called Aeropress Timer App. In this weeks episode we talk with him about building the app and his passion for the Aeropress and coffee.

This week we talk with Brandon Warman. One of the guys behind the highly successful Kickstarter project Handground Coffee Grinder. Raising just over three hundred thousand dollars, we talk about the crowd sourced idea behind the grinder.

This week we talk with the man behind KCCoffeeGeek.com Steve Agocs. We talk about getting into coffee and how it doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg and we also talk about altitudes effect on coffees.

This week we chat with the Director of Coffee for Mistobox.com Seth Mills. We talk about how he sources coffee and finds roasters for their popular coffee subscription service. We also talk about how Mistobox Coffee started as a college project that went on to launch a successful Kickstarter campaign to then airing on the popular TV show Shark Tank and receiving funding from non other than Mark Cuban.

In the twelfth episode of the I Brew My Own Coffee Podcast we chat with Chase Reeves, one of the gentlemen behind fizzle.co. Chase reached out to us on twitter and wanted to join us to chat about his mutual love for coffee and we couldn't pass that up. In this episode we talk about his love for coffee and where that all started.

In the eleventh episode of the I Brew My Own Coffee Podcast we chat with Bryan Schiele. In part 2 of this interview Bryan shares his personal coffee indexing system he created and talks about the reasoning for roasting his own coffee.

In the tenth episode of the I Brew My Own Coffee Podcast we chat with Bryan Schiele. Probably most notable for his colorful coffee photography on Instagram, we chat about how he got started working as a barista at Starbucks then moving into a software development job and how brewing coffee at home has become a hobby for him.