André Eiermann | The Gap Between the Specialty and Commercial Coffee Industries
This is a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.
Connect with André Eiermann here: https://www.instagram.com/andre_eiermann/
Read the scientific paper "Extraction of single serve coffee capsules: linking properties of ground coffee to extraction dynamics and cup quality" here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74138-1
Release Date: July 2022
Episodes are listed below by order of the most recently released (check the episode number).
This is the 4th episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.
In this 4th episode of the series, André and Lee have a very sobering conversation about the future of the specialty coffee industry as it collides with challenging times ahead.
This is the 3rd episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.
In this 3rd episode of the series, our discussion leads us to explore what the specialty coffee industry could learn from the commercial coffee industry across the coffee supply chain.
This is the 2nd episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.
In this 2nd episode of the series, André helps us navigate what lessons the commercial coffee industry have to offer the specialty coffee industry about going to market.
This is the first episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.
In this first episode of the series, André explains how specialty coffee and Commercial coffee are defined and some of the fundamental differences between them.
This is the final episode of a five-part series with André Eiermann. André is the 2017 Swiss National Barista Champion, a published author, Victoria Arduino Australia general manager, and a highly experienced specialty coffee industry veteran of more than 20 years. In this series, Lee and André will explore the gap between the specialty and commercial coffee industries.
In this 5th episode of the series, André and Lee explore the relevance of the world barista championship competition today compared with previous eras.