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Congratulations to our friend Daisuke who just opened Paddler’s Coffee in Tokyo, just outside of Yoyogi park in the Life Son bakery space. The cafe looks incredible and serves our single origin coffees on Chemex, cone pour overs, and french press. We feel very lucky to have such rad Northwest representation in the far east.
All this week on Morning Edition, NPR celebrates the role of coffee in our lives–something we do here everyday! Listen to yesterday’s piece on the journey of specialty coffee here and today’s edition on how coffee influenced the course of history.
Stay tuned in this week for revealing segments focusing on women in coffee, coffee for a cause and coffee genes.
“Coffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideas.”
Arturo Aguirre Jr. and Sr. from Guatemala Finca El Injerto made this video showing a farm day-in-the-life from one of our longest-standing direct trade relationships. Thanks fellas for all that you do!
World, meet RTO the Afterburner, or more formally, Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer, a relatively new addition to our roastery floor. Simply put, it’s a very efficient machine, using 70% less gas than conventional afterburners in the roasting process–which annually saves enough energy to heat 209 homes for a year. It makes the equivalent environmental impact of 109 cars off the road, and 9,300 tons of CO2 not emitted into the atmosphere. The Oregon Energy Trust helped us to buy it when we opened our new Portland HQ, and we’re so proud and grateful to be able to do our part to be as sustainable as possible. Read more about it here.
RTO Installation – July 2012
RTO in Operation
Our green crew and roasters from both coasts collaborated outside of the cupping lab on this little eclectic gem. This mix spans the globe from Afrobeat, Swedish prog, Jamaican ska, motorik Krautrock grooves, with Stravinsky’s riot-inducing opus thrown in for good measure. These guys know a thing or two about getting lost in a good slow burner.
“To look is to look like, to affirm again, and who doesn’t like affirming again? that reason and revelation are no lovers, nor a combination. But if an image can be an apology, what with its cudgels, trestles, cross seas, and lopsides, I would still go on wondering whereabouts you learned to be so magnanimous, so about the veil, and how the seasons thought to part themselves in that place.” – Chris Mullins
Lori Damiano is a praise singer of all things handmade. The kinds of things she regularly makes with her own two hands are paintings, experimental animations, zines, films, quilts, gardens, miniature sweaters, and pies.
“In any selection of works that I produce, there is a varied and sometimes disparate array styles and conventions of painting. Abstract works; representational works; pictorial works; process works; quick and gestural works; meticulously rendered works. This mixture of conventions is intended to appear inconsistent. It is meant to reveal a fact of life that I find curiously inspirational–that lived experience is often fundamentally incoherent. My experience of life is one of so many incompatible variations. My choices among these variations, no matter how careful, will inevitably lead me to contradiction and inconsistent decision-making.” – Patrick Driscoll