Colin Whitcomb's guest appearances

Colin Whitcomb

Keys To The Shop : Equipping Coffee Retail Professionals

Good Beer Hunting

Milwaukee Coffee: Reimagine Brew City

Lucia Solis

Pete Mockaitis

Jill Schlesinger

Jennifer Myers

Steve Rhinehart

Colin Quinn

Laura Gonzalez

Tom Palmer

Ryan Fisher

Kwame Christian

Dave Stachowiak

Jeff Taylor

Steve Wood

Kevin Nealon

Michael Tan

OwlTail

Aidan visits Canary Coffee Bar to sit down with owner Colin Whitcomb for an informative and insightful 30 minutes (and change). A nationally-acclaimed barista like Colin knows something about innovation, something he says he strives to do with Canary. Colin describes the shop's beginnings (2:46), his transitional perception of Milwaukee's coffee culture (15:01), and gives a fascinating fun fact: he only drinks black coffee (30:41). -- I do not own the rights to this music. All rights to "Cheers:" ProSound Music; Audiam (Label); SOLAR Music Rights Management, Sony ATV Publishing, and 3 Music Rights Societies

Aidan visits Canary Coffee Bar to sit down with owner Colin Whitcomb for an informative and insightful 30 minutes (and change). A nationally-acclaimed barista like Colin knows something about innovation, something he says he strives to do with Canary. Colin describes the shop's beginnings (2:46), his transitional perception of Milwaukee's coffee culture (15:01), and gives a fascinating fun fact: he only drinks black coffee (30:41). -- I do not own the rights to this music. All rights to "Cheers:" ProSound Music; Audiam (Label); SOLAR Music Rights Management, Sony ATV Publishing, and 3 Music Rights Societies

Colin Whitcomb, Canary Coffee Bar: Where Every Barista Knows Your Name

It's Founder Friday! Today we get to sit down not once, but twice with Colin Whitcomb of the newly opened Canary Coffee Bar in Milwaukee, WI.  In this episode we talk with Colin a couple months before Canary opened and then 3 months after to get a detailed look inside the planning and running of a new business Along with being an amazingly nice guy, Colin has been in coffee for 14 years having worked in some of the nations tope coffee bars. He is also a BGA Executive Counsel member and a long time barista competitor. Colin knows coffee and coffee shops and this move to open his own cafe is quite exciting.  There is a lot covered in this 2 part episode and I hope you get a lot form Colin's experiences as an entrepreneur.  You will learn about:  Canary's unique business concept The value of having people help you in the build out Dealing with the city  Learning to let things go The most rewarding parts of starting a coffee bar The challenges of staffing and gauging business needs Self care and time management Why you should over capitalize your business    Links: www.Cararycoffeebar.com Instagram   Related episodes: 184 : Making Great Business Decisions w/ Dave Stachowiak  111 : Self-Care 101 002 : Master Your Workflow w/ Ryan Soeder Interested in Keys to the Shop Consulting services? Let's talk Chris@keystotheshop.com   Get on the Keys to the Shop email list and get the transcripts, bonus audio, and extra resources! Click Here!   5% off your purchases at Prima Coffee form now until January 31st! Just use the code "HOLIDAY5" when you visit this link! www.prima-coffee.com/keys   Want the best plant based beverage for your coffee drinks?  www.pacificfoods.com/food-service

It's Founder Friday! Today we get to sit down not once, but twice with Colin Whitcomb of the newly opened <a href="https://www.instagram.com/canarycoffeebar/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canary Coffee Bar</a> in Milwaukee, WI.  In this episode we talk with Colin a couple months before Canary opened and then 3 months after to get a detailed look inside the planning and running of a new business Along with being an amazingly nice guy, Colin has been in coffee for 14 years having worked in some of the nations tope coffee bars. He is also a BGA Executive Counsel member and a long time barista competitor. Colin knows coffee and coffee shops and this move to open his own cafe is quite exciting.  There is a lot covered in this 2 part episode and I hope you get a lot form Colin's experiences as an entrepreneur.  You will learn about: <ul> <li>Canary's unique business concept</li> <li>The value of having people help you in the build out</li> <li>Dealing with the city </li> <li>Learning to let things go</li> <li>The most rewarding parts of starting a coffee bar</li> <li>The challenges of staffing and gauging business needs</li> <li>Self care and time management</li> <li>Why you should over capitalize your business</li> </ul> Links: <a href="http://www.Cararycoffeebar.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.Cararycoffeebar.com</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/canarycoffeebar/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> Related episodes: <a href="http://keystotheshop.com/businessdecisions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">184 : Making Great Business Decisions w/ Dave Stachowiak</a> <a href="http://keystotheshop.com/111-self-care-101-taking-care-of-yourself-while-taking-care-of-others/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> 111 : Self-Care 101</a> <a href="http://keystotheshop.com/002-master-your-workflow-w-ryan-soeder/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">002 : Master Your Workflow w/ Ryan Soeder</a> Interested in Keys to the Shop Consulting services? Let's talk <a href="mailto:Chris@keystotheshop.com">Chris@keystotheshop.com</a> Get on the Keys to the Shop email list and get the transcripts, bonus audio, and extra resources! <a href="http://keystotheshop.com/contact/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click Here!</a> 5% off your purchases at Prima Coffee form now until January 31st! Just use the code "HOLIDAY5" when you visit this link! <a href="http://www.prima-coffee.com/keys" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.prima-coffee.com/keys</a> Want the best plant based beverage for your coffee drinks?  <a href="http://www.pacificfoods.com/food-service" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.pacificfoods.com/food-service</a>

193 : Founder Friday w/ Colin Whitcomb of Canary Coffee Bar (Before & After Episode!)

Every year, hundreds of baristas come together for the United States Coffee Championships. The competitions are heavily anticipated, with folks preparing for months to present their routines to judges and figure out who is the best coffee brewer, roaster, or taster in the nation.  The heart of the entire competition is the barista championships. You might be thinking, what could a barista competition even be? Is it who can make the best coffee? Is it who has the best beans? Is it who can make the prettiest latte art? All these things make up a portion of the competition, but it’s fundamentally a test of skill, expertise, and perhaps a little bit of luck and circumstance.  Competitors have 15 minutes to present four espressos, four milk drinks, and four signature drinks to a panel of sensory judges, all the while having two technical judges hovering around you, scoring your technique and technical abilities. The winner goes on to represent the United States at the World Barista Championships, which happens to be in Boston this year.  The competitions are the breeding ground for new ideas in coffee. You might see competitors freeze their coffee beans or talk about new processing methods. Techniques and concepts that we accept as commonplace in the coffee industry usually come from coffee competitions, and their influence on the future of specialty coffee can’t be measured.  Every year, my colleague, Colin Whitcomb, and I sit on the sidelines and provide live commentary for folks watching at home. The competitions are livestreamed by the Specialty Coffee Association, who hires a professional AV team to run sound and shoot live video, and Colin and I meticulously re-read the rulebook and watch past competitions to see what’s new, what trends have carried on from years past, and provide context for the decisions that competitors make.  This is a task that Colin loves. He’s a long time barista competitor, Executive Council member for the Barista Guild, and is currently building out his new café, Canary Coffee Bar, in Milwalkee, Wisconsin. Colin has been part of the specialty coffee community for over a decade, and competed in his first barista competition in 2008. In this interview, which we recorded on the eve of the United States Barista Championships, Colin talks about the history and ever-changing format of the competition, what trends and ideas came out of the competition sphere, and we make some spur of the moment bets on who we think will win (spoiler alert—we’re 100% wrong).  This is Colin Whitcomb of Canary Coffee Bar. Listen in.

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