#72: Planning Your First Coffee Fermentation Trials? Start Here.
From Making Coffee with Lucia Solis by Lucia
May 26, 2025 · 43 min · Season 6 · Episode 72
About this episode
The episode discusses the approach to a coffee producer's first use of yeast for coffee fermentations, covering variables in trial design.
Today's episode offers a behind the scenes view of how I approach a coffee producer's first time using yeast for their coffee fermentations. We run through all of the potential variables to pay attention to when designing your first trials with commercial microbes. From cost of production to work-flow and data collection. This conversation was recorded during a recent Office Hours session through our private Discord community. If you would like to be a part of this community, join Patreon a...
People in this episode
Host: Lucia Solis
Topics covered
- coffee fermentation
- yeast
- commercial microbes
- data collection
- production cost
- workflow
Keywords
- coffee
- fermentation trials
- yeast
- microbes
- data collection
- production cost
- workflow
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