The release this month is Purple Matrix, an offering roasted by Colin Rackelman of Stimuli Coffee that invites us to experience something chromatic. He’s roasting a beautiful coffee from Aricha, Yirgacheffe, Gedeo that entices with notes of purple fruit and flowers. Happy listening & sipping!

I am going to let Nicole speak for herself in this beautiful write-up she did for her release on the Matchbook Coffee Project website:  "This release has allowed me the time to look at the small things: how I put my art together, what things I would love to receive in a box were I to get one, but also what cup of coffee is my absolute favorite to share and commiserate over.  I’ve selected the El Salvador Muchas Aguas. I wanted to select something that really captured what I get excited...

Brynn has been involved in coffee for years now, bouncing around the pacific northwest they had a long-running fascination with the coffee industry & roasting in particular but not until landing in Oakland CA did they find an opportunity and safe space to begin roasting. Brynn has roasted a beautiful Brazilian coffee for us this month and if you have not ordered your bag yet we still have a few kicking around so don't miss out. Enjoy this episode as we discuss Brynn's journey to roasting...

Today we are speaking with Adrian Lopez of Grand Coffee, he has roasted a delicious Ethiopia Abiyot Ageze for the Matchbook release this month. We discuss his budding coffee interest while a college student in New York as well as the way roasting coffee has evolved his understanding of this very special bean. -All the best from the MCP crew P.S. If you want to get your bag of his roast click here: https://matchbookcoffeeproject.com/products/mcp-066-adrian-lopez P.P.S. To keep up with his...

Marissa & Ethan of Tanbrown Coffee are the featured roasters for this latest Matchbook release. Initially brought together by a shared Asian American experience Marissa & Ethan are firm believers in the qualities of the coffee coming from Asia, in this Podcast we talk about how they approach coffee and also what they chose to roast for Matchbook.  Check out more of the good work Tanbrown does at @ Tanbrown.coffee If you want to grab a bag of what they roasted head over to:...

This month's featured roaster is Marvin Duncan, quality control manager at PERC coffee in Savannah Georgia. In our interview, we talk about Marvin’s Matchbook release, how a failed date at a coffee shop opened his eyes to how awesome Coffee can be, and what his preferred brewing methods are. WARNING to Chemex and Espresso lovers Marvin might make you question your preferred brewing method. Check out more of the good work Marvin does at PERC @ Perccoffee.com If you want to grab a bag of his...

We are excited to feature Chelsea Thoumsin this month as our Matchbook Release and in this episode we discuss Chelsea's great work with "Get chu some gear" and why she thinks combining decaf with caffeinated beans is a winning combo for her Matchbook release  Chelsea competed and won in the Cup Taster’s Nashville Qualifier and currently is the green coffee buyer for Counter Culture in North Carolina. Find out more about Chelsea on her Instagram @chelsea.tastes.things

We're so excited to announce that Renata Henderson of Cxffeeblack in Memphis, Tenn., is the featured roaster for February here at Matchbook!  For Renata, roasting evokes history and connection that goes far beyond what's in front of her. We hope that you feel that magic as you listen. 

2022 is gonna be a big year at Matchbook! We're kicking things off with Sara Gibson and Kimberly Zash of Sightseer Coffee in Austin, Texas. They aim to work with women across the supply chain—from women farmers and women-led coops to exporters to importers—their goal is to empower women and honor the amount of work women do to keep the supply chain of coffee going. 

Ashley Griffeth is the roaster for the month of December here at Matchbook. Ashley began Loom in early 2020, when she was laid off at her job because of the pandemic. She partnered with a former regular customer named Chris to start a coffee company — but they wanted to do things differently. One of the principles behind Loom is to only work with coffee shops working to pay their staff a living wage.

Tio Fallen is the featured roaster for the month of November, and we couldn't be more excited to celebrate the confluence of coffee and music that this release represents. 

Gabe Boscana is the owner of Máquina Coffee and talks risk, green buying, and how to start your own small roasting business. Gabe is a returning Matchbook roaster—so you know this release is going to be special. 

Argus Keppel is a roaster working for Caffe Vita in the Pacific Northwest, and I think he might be one of our most enthusiastic roasters we've worked with to date here at Matchbook. We were pointed in his direction by Julia Lancer, a two-time Matchbook roaster. If we were handing out superlatives at MCP, Julia would win "hardest worker," and Argus would probably come in second only to them. 

This month’s release is meant to challenge your perceptions of what you know about roasting, education, and making tasty coffee.  We’re thrilled to work with Christina Chin, owner of Favor Coffee, this month here at Matchbook. She’s roasting coffee for you folks in August, and she’s generating a bit of mystery for you...

Mikey Rinaldo is the Matchbook featured roaster for the month of July. They own a small roasting company out of Chicago called New Math, which highlights specialty Asian coffees. Mikey is here to dispel preconceptions and find the potential in coffees from the region. Because that’s what specialty coffee is all about, right? It’s not necessarily about sourcing the most pristine coffees but finding ways to highlight their inherent potential and honor the hard work that goes into growing coffee.

J.R. Harris is the Matchbook roaster for the month of June, and they've taken an approach to Matchbook that is totally unique.

Jiyoon Han is the featured roaster for the month of May here at Matchbook. She sources and roasts coffee for Bean & Bean, her family's coffee shop with four locations across the greater New York City area.  Bean & Bean sources coffee almost exclusively from women or women-led farms and cooperatives. Jiyoon believes coffee can be a tool and uses coffee sourcing as a way to address gender inequity across the coffee supply stream. 

Julia Lancer was roaster #7 when we first worked with her in October of 2017—and we're thrilled to work with her again.  Some things about Julia have changed, but some have stayed refreshingly the same.

We're doing something we've never done at Matchbook—we're featuring TWO roasters for the month of March. Bianka and Sabreen are the team behind Cute Coffee, a roastery based in Oakland with its roots in Los Angeles. Bianka Alloyn and Sabreen Naimah met at a cafe, and since then have been exploring their shared love of all things coffee together. Learn about how they're keeping coffee cute in this episode!

Aaron Fender is the co-founder of Portrait Coffee in Atlanta, Georiga, and the featured roaster here at Matchbook for the month of February. Aaron is interested in coffee as a conduit, a way to connect with people and build shared experiences, which you hear in this episode. Our conversation is more casual than most you've probably heard on the podcast because Aaron is incredibly easy to talk to. He's the type of person who asks questions, wants to know more about others, and can break the...

Sum Ngai is the co-founder and roaster at Coffee Project in New York City. Sum originally started Coffee Project as a community hub—a place that folks in the neighborhood could gather and share a space that is non-judgemental and accepting.

This is Jen Apodaca's second time roasting coffee with us at Matchbook. Nothing has changed about her ambition—her first release featured three different coffees, for which she designed all the artwork. This time around, she's juggling a newly formed coffee roastery, called Mother Tongue Coffee, with her release and joins us on this episode to talk about her coffee sourcing philosophy and why she's excited to roast coffees that are absolutely solid, but sometimes remain overlooked. 

Cheyenne Xochitl Love is a person with vision. She’s the featured roaster for the month of November, and in a way, this is a homecoming. Cheyenne started Matchbook back in 2016, and although she's stepped away, her spirit and passion for coffee have forever shaped this project.

Luz Amaya of Devoción in New York CIty is the roaster for the month of October over at Matchbook, but that’s not where we started with Luz. We initially chatted with her about doing a release in early summer, but then COVID-19 hit and made securing a roasting space a difficult task. It’s funny, though—we talked to Luz about that, and she mentioned that she preferred to roast in October because her birthday is on Halloween.  Folks, this is going to be a spooky release.