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Patrick Sullivan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
141 total appearances

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

And they're like, oh, I'll just have oat milk.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

I'm like, it's not.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

Are you sure?

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

You can't milk an oat.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

As we began to work on pre-production for the documentary, this is when we were learning more about coffee and the mold problem.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

And we realized, okay, there's like a real challenge in testing coffee.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

Like we, Jigsaw Health, the company that we own,

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

We test our supplements all the time.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

It's just part of the par for the course.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

So, you know, we use third party labs.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

They test for heavy metals and pesticides and they test to make sure that what's on the label is in the bottle and nothing else.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

And we thought, well, why don't we do this for coffee?

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

So thus began our search to try to find a registered organic coffee that would also pass a third party test and was something that we liked to drink.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

i think that the darker the roast the more likely mold was in the beans originally because you have to burn it longer to kill off the mold so when i drink a starbucks i feel like it is super burnt and bitter when i drink a firefly i'm tasting like

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

nature there's like a there's a chocolate and a nuance and it's like not strong so in fact i would say the biggest complaint we don't get many complaints but the biggest complaint that we would get on firefly coffee is like it doesn't seem strong enough well it's a medium roast by design dark roast to me is like we were just trying to kill the mold sorry

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

Single origin probably is better, but it is also a buzzword.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

It basically means it is all from the same country.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

Ours technically comes from the same farm.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

So single origin really is this single origin family farm up in Honduras that our roaster who's been they've been working with them for like 30 years.

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
The Truth About Coffee | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan

So when we found this roaster, they were like, it's single origin at a registered organic farm in Honduras.