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Coffee Quality, Part 1: The birth of specialty coffee flavours

The Science of Coffee by James Harper

Dec 8, 202523:30Science & Medicine

For the longest time, coffees were dull and bitter. But then a small group of pioneers changed the world. In this episode, we travel back to the 1960s and ’70s to meet the trailblazers who realised coffees could taste di...

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Coffee Quality, Part 1: The birth of specialty coffee flavours is an episode from The Science of Coffee by James Harper. For the longest time, coffees were dull and bitter. But then a small group of pioneers changed the world. In this episo...

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Published Dec 8, 2025, 23:30 long, audio available.