#78: What Is Specialty Coffee? And Who Gets To Define It?
From Making Coffee with Lucia Solis by Lucia
March 18, 2026 · 45 min · Season 7 · Episode 78
About this episode
The episode explores the concept of specialty coffee and discusses who has the authority to define it.
If you would like to watch our YouTube video on "What is specialty coffee" You can watch that here. If you are a roaster and are interested in participating in the Fermentation Project with James Hoffmann, click here -> For Roasters: Buy Fermentation Kit Listers Movie (bird watching) it's beautiful, I highly recommend this. Email info.luxiacoffee@gmail if you would like to discuss Pluribus or Listers Movie in our Discord server. Support the show on Patreon to join our live Disco...
People in this episode
Host: Lucia
Topics covered
- specialty coffee
- fermentation
- coffee roasting
- YouTube
- film recommendations
Keywords
- specialty coffee
- fermentation project
- James Hoffmann
- Listers Movie
- coffee roasting
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Listers Movie, Pluribus
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