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No Bad Reviews: A Coffee Podcast

No Bad Reviews: A Coffee Podcast

Each week three coffee industry professionals/co-workers/friends uncover the fascinating and often surprising backstory of a coffee. Then, using their professionally trained palates, they sample the coffee and humorously give no bad reviews. Hosted by Marcus Contaldo, Jenni Trilik, and Stephanie Motenko.

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No Bad Reviews: A Coffee Podcast
Rerun: Murder Coffee

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Rerun: Murder Coffee
Aug. 1, 2023

Rerun: Murder Coffee

This episode is one of our favorites, and also a fan favorite, so we decided to play it again while we take a little summer break. We hope you enjoy it again!-There may be no bigger genre than true crime at this moment in ti…
Coffee Project NY
July 18, 2023

Coffee Project NY

Steph went to NYC and all she brought back was this delicious coffee and an amazing story about two Malaysian immigrant women who are making waves in the specialty coffee world. This is the story about how in 2015 Chi Sum Ng…
Bonus: Uncle Nearest vs. Jack Daniels Love It or Leave It
July 13, 2023

Bonus: Uncle Nearest vs. Jack Daniels Love It or Leave It

On our Patreon, we release weekly bonus episodes called Love It or Leave It where we give our unfiltered opinions on various coffee or episode related products. For our most recent Patreon episode, we compared Uncle Nearest …
Uncle Nearest + Jack Daniels Coffee
July 4, 2023

Uncle Nearest + Jack Daniels Coffee

In this episode we talk about how Jack Daniel left home as a young boy and was taken in by a pastor with a distillery side hustle run by a master distiller and enslaved man named Nathan "Nearest" Green, also known as Uncle N…
Snoop Dogg + INDOxyz Coffee
June 20, 2023

Snoop Dogg + INDOxyz Coffee

DOMINO M*TH*RF*CK*R!Click to hear more!INDOxyz: https://indo.xyz/collections/frontpage/products/sumatra-gayo - Buy a mystery box of past products that we have tried on the podcast! For $10 you will receive 10 cups worth of c…
Melitta Bentz, Inventor of the Pour-Over Brew Method
June 6, 2023

Melitta Bentz, Inventor of the Pour-Over Brew Method

In this week's episode Jenni tells us about her favorite person in coffee history, the OG 3rd wave coffee connoisseur and inventor of the pour-over method of brewing coffee, Melitta Bentz and the company she founded and name…
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About the Hosts

Stephanie Motenko

Employee of the Month at Modest Coffee for all the months running

Marcus Contaldo

2021 Good Food Award Winner in the Coffee Category, lead roaster and green coffee buyer at Modest Coffee

Jenni Trilik

Operations manager at Modest Coffee