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Rainforest Alliance Project in Guatemala

We strongly believe that our green bean coffee providers must get as much support, dedication and aid from our company as possible. We already have been supporting growers to improve their livelihood in many ways. In Guatemala for instance; we helped Ms. Miguelina from El Paternal farm build a water treatment facility, and have consistently [...]

Cupping Coffee: Comparisons, Analysis, Deliciousness

Hello,
This week we got the opportunity, as part of the Cup of Excellence, to roast and cup some of the top coffees from this year’s Brazil competition. For those unfamiliar, the Cup of Excellence is an organization that has put together national coffee competitions in a variety of coffee growing countries from Brazil to [...]

Let’s Make Some Coffee!

Recently many of us here at Portland Roasting have been involved in some very exciting events, most recently, the Coffee: The World in Your Cup exhibit at the World Forestry Center. At these events we like to showcase some interesting single origin coffees using brewing methods that seem to intimidate the average coffee consumer. I [...]

Sacramento Check-In

From Brian Cornelsen, our Sacramento representative:
Well, it has been a busy first five months here in Sacramento.  I have been doing my best to get the word out that we are now in town and ready to offer customers some of the best and most responsible coffee they can get a hold of, and the [...]