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Colombian Production Forecast
30 Nov 2009, 9:37 am |
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Flying Elephants at PDX!
24 Nov 2009, 7:15 pm |
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Cafe Au Play ~ Jingle Mingle Holiday Sale
23 Nov 2009, 2:35 pm |
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Chai-Der: It tastes better than it sounds
20 Nov 2009, 9:04 am |
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World Water Day Benefit Concert
18 Nov 2009, 8:05 am |
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- Walk for Water 2010
World Trade Center Plaza
Sunday, March 21 at 1:00pm
When people discover that I’m a coffee roaster, they usually have one question: How about some free coffee? After that, I’m often asked how I can tell when the beans are done. The answer is a fairly complex combination of smell, sight, time, temperature, and several other factors. T...
I would like to share some simple statistics regarding the production of coffee in Colombia. Some of you may ask why you should know about this issue, the answer is any shortages from big coffee producer such as Brazil or Colombia impact the availability, price and quality of your cup...
Our good friends, Elephants Deli, are moving on up. Today is the grand opening of Flying Elephants at PDX...
You haven’t yet sunk your teeth into a bite of stuffing, and Christmas trees are beckoning. For those of you who jump right into Christmas after the turkey has barely had time to surface in post-Thanksgiving day sandwiches, then read on. ...
Jonathon, the Brewmaster for The Chai Company is our guest blogger. In mid-October I went to a fantasticapple festival hosted by our local university farm.It is a celebration of everything apple, with 50 varietals of apples to taste...
World Water Day is just around the corner and will be here before we know it!We arecurrently working on organizing the benefit concert taking place on the evening ofMonday, March 22, 2010, on the official World Water Day, and wewanted to get some input from all of you on any suggestions or requests...
I never imagined that visiting a tea garden for the first time would affect me in such a wonderful way. Honestly, I never thought these magnificent places — the Annamalai ranges in Tamil Nadu state neighboring the Mudumalai and Indira Gandhi Wild Life Sanctuaries — existed. It...
Last Friday, Portland Roasting’scupping room turned into a fruit tasting room. We were trying to discover the fruit flavors ins some of our coffees — our new Sumatra, El Salvador, Kenyan AB, Guatemala (Hue Hue)and Mexican natural. Al...
Our successful Ready to Read book drive is coming to a close, and we want to thank all of our customers that contributed books, which will be packed up and shipped off to the Madan Estate in Papua New Guinea. We are aiming to collect boxes from our customers prior to Thanksgiving. So, if you [...]
Last week the sales team headed to the cupping room to sample Monin’s new seasonal syrups and traditional holiday favorites. We were also challenged to create a drink of our own. I wanted to come up with something that reminded me of fall and the cozy fires we would gather around when I was a [...]
Here at Portland Roasting we are gearing up for the holiday season! To help get us in the mood for baking, hosting parties, decoratingand giving gifts, we starting brainstorming some delicious holiday drinks! After experimenting and sharing one morning, we came up with a few tasty concoctions...
Hey folks, I love the science and general “nerdery” of coffee culture and people. More so, I love the connections coffee brings to us all because it invites us to do so much with it in the name of community, justice and equality! I try to make that connection to what I’m doing every [...]
Our sales staff headed back to the kitchen to craft creative holiday drinks using Monin Syrups. The results were evocative of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s all rolled into one … but not that filling. Below is Steve’s (Quality Assurance) contribution. Stay...
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In Papua New Guinea, we partnered with the owners of the Madan Estate to increase the quality of life of growers and their communities. The Madan Estate grows our peaberry coffee.
For this particular Farm Friendly Direct™ program, we are helping out with a Women’s Literacy project, which is a wide-ranging project that ...Aarlie Hull, the estate owner, has dreamed up. Her vision is to create an educational center that doubles as a community gathering spot. Here, adults can meet for literacy classes and community meetings. Hull also hopes to create a pre-school as well. She reports that there is no emphasis on early childhood education, hence a book drive to gather easy-to-read books and primers of all sorts.
Papua New Guinea experiences a high rate of illiteracy, and books are scarce. Hull has heard from the women in the community that books are high on their wish list. The enthusiasm to learn to read is evident, according to Hull. Therefore, the next logical step is to fill the bookshelves with books.
To help with that goal, Portland Roasting stepped in with the Ready to Read book drive. We simply asked customers to set-up collection boxes at their shops to collect books from their customers. We also collected books from walk-in customers at our Southeast Portland roastery and office.
In late fall, Portland Roasting will gather the collection boxes full of books from their customers and ferry them to the shipping container that will make its way to Papua New Guinea and into the hands of soon-to-be readers.
