On a long walk through Hamburg, somewhere between the fish markets and giant cranes, you might stumble a giant bronze coffee bean looks like its crash landed from space.
But this giant coffee bean represents a staggering fact: one in every three cups of coffee drunk in Europe has passed through Hamburg.
In the first half of this episode, we explore the many profound ways coffee shaped one of Europe’s most important cities.
But then the story flips because, once coffee changed Hamburg, Hamburg began to change coffee.
Series 3 of A History of Coffee is a collaboration between documentary maker James Harper of the Filter Stories coffee podcast and Jonathan Morris, Professor of History and author of ‘Coffee: A Global History’.
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Go on your own Hamburg coffee tour!
Giant bean
Speicherstadt Museum
Burg Coffee Museum in the Speicherstadt
Becking, 100 year old coffee roasters
1950s Rebuilt Coffee Exchange - and an Instagram post coming on @filterstoriespodcast
Go deeper into the story of Mahlkönig’s grinders
Early EKs - post coming on @filterstoriespodcast
DK (aka Donkey Kong Dreiphasen Kaffeemühle)
Grind-by-Sync espresso grinders
EK Omnia
Guatemala
Matt Perger WBC routine demonstrating the EK
Filter Stories episode on grinding curves
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