Roukiat Delrue Named CQI Director of Q and Educational Programming
The Portland, Ore.-based Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) has announced that Roukiat Delrue has been named the new director of Q and educational program services. A Q Arabica and Q Robusta Instructor,...
View ArticleGift-Maker With Love, From PDX, Launching Coffee Subscription Service
The forest of local, craft-focused food and drink brands in Portland, Ore. is certainly dense. To navigate among its many gems, it helps to keep the acquaintance of an expert...
View ArticleUnpacking Coffee with Kandace and Ray: Heart Coffee Roasters
In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray check in with Wille and Rebekah Yi-Luoma of Portland’s Heart Roasters, which has two existing cafés and a third on...
View ArticleCaffé Umbria Opening Portland Lab with Future Growth Plans for 2017
Longtime roaster/retailer Caffé Umbria is celebrating the grand opening of its first dedicated training lab this week in Portland, Ore., while signaling additional growth plans for 2017. The new lab in...
View ArticlePortland’s The Arbor Lodge is Now Tanager Coffee’s Official Retail Nest
Portland, Ore.-based wholesale roaster Tanager Coffee Roasters has just added a whole new wing, so to speak, taking ownership of neighborhood favorite café The Arbor Lodge, in North Portland. The...
View ArticleCoava Opens Showy New Portland Roastery and Brew Bar, More Locations Coming
Intensely quality-focused Portland, Ore., roaster Coava Coffee has relocated its production headquarters into a new 13,000-square-foot facility at SE 10th and Main Streets, while also serving coffee to...
View ArticleMountaineers Find An Elevated Experience At Remodeled Sisters Coffee
Longtime Central Oregon roaster-retailer Sisters Coffee Company — now run by a second-generation trio composed of a sister and her two brothers — recently unveiled the results of a major...
View ArticlePortland’s Nossa Familia Relocating Roastery, Planning Four New Shops
Big changes to Portland, Ore.’s vertically integrated Nossa Familia Coffee are coming this summer, as the B-Corp-certified company’s lease is up in the building that houses its production facility, and...
View ArticleUnpacking Coffee with Kandace and Ray: Groundwork Coffee
In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray check in with Groundwork Coffee, the longtime Venice, Calif., roaster/retailer that had a busy 2016 establishing a second home in Portland,...
View ArticleGroundwork Coffee, Not Allegro, Opens in Two New Whole Foods 365 Stores
Groundwork Coffee — whose 10 retail locations throughout greater Los Angeles and Portland include a mobile truck, a convention center space and a regular farmers market stand — has opened...
View ArticlePortland Roasting Giant Boyd’s Being Acquired by Farmer Bros for...
Longtime Portland, Ore.-based roasting company Boyd Coffee Company (known commonly as Boyd’s) is being acquired by Texas-based Farmer Brothers for $42 million in cash plus 21,000 shares of a new...
View ArticleSan Diego Brewery Modern Times is Planning a Portland Roastery
Four-year-old San Diego independent craft brewery and coffee roaster Modern Times has announced ambitious plans to enter Portland, Ore., with new brewing production facilities, a tasting room and a...
View ArticleUnpacking Coffee with Kandace and Ray: Heart Coffee Roasters
In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray check in with Wille and Rebekah Yi-Luoma of Portland’s Heart Roasters, which has two existing cafés and a third on...
View ArticleCaffé Umbria Opening Portland Lab with Future Growth Plans for 2017
Longtime roaster/retailer Caffé Umbria is celebrating the grand opening of its first dedicated training lab this week in Portland, Ore., while signaling additional growth plans for 2017. The new lab in...
View ArticlePortland’s The Arbor Lodge is Now Tanager Coffee’s Official Retail Nest
Portland, Ore.-based wholesale roaster Tanager Coffee Roasters has just added a whole new wing, so to speak, taking ownership of neighborhood favorite café The Arbor Lodge, in North Portland. The...
View ArticleCoava Opens Showy New Portland Roastery and Brew Bar, More Locations Coming
Intensely quality-focused Portland, Ore., roaster Coava Coffee has relocated its production headquarters into a new 13,000-square-foot facility at SE 10th and Main Streets, while also serving coffee to...
View ArticleMountaineers Find An Elevated Experience At Remodeled Sisters Coffee
Longtime Central Oregon roaster-retailer Sisters Coffee Company — now run by a second-generation trio composed of a sister and her two brothers — recently unveiled the results of a major...
View ArticlePortland’s Nossa Familia Relocating Roastery, Planning Four New Shops
Big changes to Portland, Ore.’s vertically integrated Nossa Familia Coffee are coming this summer, as the B-Corp-certified company’s lease is up in the building that houses its production facility, and...
View ArticleUnpacking Coffee with Kandace and Ray: Groundwork Coffee
In this week’s episode of Unpacking Coffee, Kandace and Ray check in with Groundwork Coffee, the longtime Venice, Calif., roaster/retailer that had a busy 2016 establishing a second home in Portland,...
View ArticleGroundwork Coffee, Not Allegro, Opens in Two New Whole Foods 365 Stores
Groundwork Coffee — whose 10 retail locations throughout greater Los Angeles and Portland include a mobile truck, a convention center space and a regular farmers market stand — has opened...
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