#77: The Most Challenging Harvest We've Had

About this episode

Lucia and Nick provide an update on the challenging coffee harvest season and answer listener questions about fermentation.

Roasterkat IG Reel about rain. YouTube version of the Q&A portion James Hoffmann Healthy Coffee Video The 2025/2026 Harvest has not gone according to plan. Nick and I have found ourselves with some down time and therefore have put together this casual, end of year update on how the season is going so far. Spoiler alert: not well. I've combined a harvest update with listener questions about fermentation. Questions featured in this episode are: Are all coffees that are not anaerobic, ...

People in this episode

Host: Lucia

Topics covered

• coffee harvest
• fermentation
• listener questions
• season update
• agriculture challenges

Keywords

• coffee
• harvest
• fermentation
• agriculture
• listener questions
• update

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Books & works: Healthy Coffee Video

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