This week in our final episode of this season we chat with Becca of Orange Moon Records. If you have visited Steampunk since December 2021 at the weekends you will no doubt have noticed that an emporium of new and used vinyl has appeared upstairs. Find out more about the woman behind the record store as she chats with Toby. Orange Moon is committed to celebrating record stores and collecting in the most inclusive way possible, bringing folk together through their love of music. She has also...

This week we chat with Peter Maniam, who runs local events company Rogue Village here in East Lothian with his wife Jenny. Together they imagine and choreograph the most beautiful events, the most recent being Winter Wonderland in the run up to last Christmas. Events are one of the sectors which has been most affected by the pandemic and their resilience and determination to keep creating against all the odds is really humbling. Doing it with such good humour and grace is really next level....

Back in 2013 Steampunk opened our doors for the very first time, as a pop up coffee bar in 'The Den' in Forth Street. We were on a back street, behind a rather unremarkable door in a room full of 50's furniture. We really didn't think many people would show up. The very first people to come in through those doors that morning were Michael and Sarah Lewis along with their friend Alex Naughton. They were so great - we had a brilliant conversation and I remember thinking that people who liked...

Cameron chats to Jason Lovell, Fraser McCarter, Luke Smith and Sam Cowan from North Berwick's notorious rock and roll legends Bluetile. These guys stormed onto the stage at Fringe by the Sea in 2019 to an audience of several hundred and have never looked back. Steampunk has been proud to host them for numerous gigs since and we have so enjoyed watching them develop their abundant musical talent. We hope you enjoy this conversation which spans so many topics (so many) - but also music,...

Meet Jackie - the 'chief sorter outer' of the wonderful local/international arts festival Fringe by the Sea which takes place in North Berwick every August. For 10 days every summer FBTS brings an incredible explosion of art and creativity to our tiny town in East Lothian. They somehow manage to bring in extraordinary headliners and mix it all up with a wealth of local creative talent kindling opportunities as well as entertaining the public. In 2021 they managed to pull off a bigger and more...

In season 4 of our podcast we are stepping out of our coffee shop tucked behind North Berwick's High Street and having a chat with a variety of different people in our community. We often talk about the importance of community here at Steampunk - but what exactly does that mean and how is it seen by other members of our community? We started off at the top end of the High Street and had a chat with Manz Ahmed whose family has run Nisa there for the past 26 years. Funnily enough, turns out we...

Pete, Toby and Cameron get together (again, virtually) for a chat. This week our lovely manager and the Bearded Barista himself, Lewis MacKenzie,  joins them. They talk about what they are most looking forward to as lockdown eases as well as asking Lewis loads of questions about his long history with Steampunk - he has been with us for 6 years now! He also spills the beans about the current renovations going on in our bar. Hope you enjoy this little snippet of coffee shop conversation! Please...

Pete, Toby and Cameron get together (again, virtually) for a chat. This week Scotty joins them and they talk discuss the Aeropress, the Steampunk virtual cupping and what we are reading, watching and listening to this week. Hope you enjoy this little snippet of coffee shop conversation.  We hope you enjoy this episode! Please do follow us if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.  You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee...

Pete, Toby and Cameron get together (again, virtually) for a chat about brewing and what we are reading, watching and listening to during lockdown. This week they talk about a few of the different brewing methods they are using including the Moccamaster and the Aeropress. Hope you enjoy this little snippet of coffee shop conversation. We hope you enjoy this episode! Please do follow us if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too. You can reach us...

Hello! Welcome back to another season of the pod! We have been in Lockdown 2 here in Scotland since Christmas eve and our cafe is closed. Although the roastery is still busy roasting and shipping online orders, we have all been working separately in order to reduce any risk of virus spreading and many of us are on flexi furlough. We have certainly been keeping busy though and have been brewing plenty of coffee at home, like the rest of the country. To kick off the new season, Pete, Toby and...

Join Peter, Toby, Scott and Cameron for a chat about all things Christmassy. What we love best about both hospitality and Christmas is the chance to  indulge in all sorts of interesting, funny and random conversations. Because everything is weird this year, and just getting weirder we decided we would just take it all online. The chat encompasses nut roast, Chippolatas and nativity roles (Jesus had a grandad??) and very little about coffee. Hope you enjoy it anyways... This is the last...

In this episode Catherine Franks chats with Bruna Costa from Kamba Coffee. Kamba is a fairly new importer who we have worked with since they set up in 2019. In fact Ludwika and Cath met Bruna on a visit to Ethiopia that year where our working relationship began. Our new release Bale Mountain is an interesting and rare example of a vertically integrated supply chain where Israel Degfai, who produced the coffee is also part owner of Kamba and is therefore directly involved at every stage of...

This week are are so happy to be joined on the podcast by a couple of our regular customers - Laura Cave and Gregor Milne. These guys kindly agreed to come in for a socially distanced chat about what coffee shops mean to them, the role they play in community and have just a general good quality conversation. This is exactly the sort of conversation that happens day in and day out here at Steampunk and in people's favourite coffee houses across the world. If you want to get a feel of what...

This week Catherine Franks is joined by Lisa Lawson from Dear Green and Fiona Grant from Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters. We are three female run coffee businesses who operate in different corners of Scotland. We have collaborated together for the past three years every Christmas to bring the Three Roasters Coffee Gift set which is a set of three coffees roasted from three different regions of the world at our three roasteries. This year's set is available again (in limited quantities) via Dear...

In this episode Rachel Beebe, head roaster at Steampunk, talks with Line Cosmidis from Falcon Coffee. Line is an agronomist who is head of sales at Falcon Specialty. She talks to us about Falcon Peru a project they launched to link smallholder farmers in remote areas of Peru to the specialty market.  Steampunk has bought three lots of coffee through the project: La Huaca in 2018, which came from several regional farms, and this year, Freddy Bermeo and Herminio Raimirez. We just finished the...

Welcome back to the Steampunk Coffee podcast. In the last series we got to know Team Steam a bit better. In Series 2 we are looking outward in slowly expanding circles and will be having conversations with people in different areas of the coffee supply chain who we work with and have gotten to know over the years.   First up we are absolutely delighted to welcome Craig Anderson and Ema Perry from No 1 Peebles Road. Their cafe is a busy hub at the heart of mountain biking territory in...

In this final episode of series 1 Peter Mackie hosts a conversation with Toby Jeffries. If you have been in Steampunk recently you will have no doubt chatted with Toby about how your day is going or your favourite movie. Toby keeps us cheery and the conversation flowing even on the darkest of days and we think he embodies what is great about hospitality in general and coffee shops in particular. Cameron joins in too for a chat that encompasses random thoughts on temperature fluctuations at...

In tonight's episode Peter Mackie chats to Steampunk long timer Scott Nicolson about beards, tunes and the perfect flat white. Scotty started working at Steampunk 6 years ago and is a much loved member of the team, a local boy who has progressed through the business from waiter to Head Barista. We hope you enjoy this episode!  Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.  You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee...

In this episode Catherine Franks continues the conversation begun last week with Steampunk's Head Roaster Rachel Beebe and Production Roaster Ludwika Kopczynska.  We discuss flavour, favourite coffees ... and the mortuary rumour. We hope you enjoy this episode!  Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.  You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast  Or email...

In this episode Rachel Beebe chats with Steampunk's founder Cath. In this personal chat we discuss her weird career path,  why perfection is not something she takes seriously and how Covid has reshaped Steampunk. We hope you enjoy this episode! Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too. You can reach us via Instagram: @steampunkcoffee @steampunkroast Or email [email protected] www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk for online...

Why are we podcasting? A little bit about our motivation behind starting a podcast and where we hope to go with it. Please join the conversation. Ask questions, suggest topics, share with your friends. Contact us: [email protected] Instagram @steampunkcoffee www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk 🎙This podcast is made possible due to tech genius Cameron Smith ... mild mannered barista by day, 🎧 recording OG by night.

In this episode Catherine Franks chats with Steampunk's Head Roaster Rachel Beebe and Production Roaster Ludwika Kopczynska. They share their experiences as women roasters in Specialty Coffee, their own personal coffee journeys and what their day looks like from behind the roaster. This was a long conversation, Part 2 will follow next week. We hope you enjoy this episode! Please do follow if you would like to hear future episodes and share with others who may be interested too.  You can...

In this episode Catherine Franks takes the yellow chair and chats with Peter Mackie and Cameron Smith, two of Steampunk's baristas. We talk about their coffee journeys, how they like to make coffee best and what their passions are outside of work. The best thing about Steampunk Coffee is the people behind it and viewers have asked to hear more about what makes Team Steam tick. Here is the first instalment. Find out more about Pete's project at www.tellmeatime.com

In this introductory episode Peter Mackie hosts a conversation with Catherine Franks (founder) and Rachel Beebe (head roaster) of Steampunk Coffee.  We answer questions sent in by Instagram followers and talk a little of the setting up of Steampunk and the ways in which we are trying to negotiate these tricky Covid times. We also discuss our motivation behind recording these podcasts and the sorts of things we will hope to cover during the course of these conversations.  We hope you enjoy...