• Taking Flight with Alaska Airlines

    Stumptown Coffee Roasters is now brewing on all Alaska Airlines flights.

  • Cooking with Sprudge: Cold Brew Tiramisu Recipe

    We’ve partnered with our friends at Sprudge to share a cold brew tiramisu recipe in celebration of their new book, *But First Coffee: A Guide to Brewing from the Kitchen to the Bar*.

  • Stumptown Coffee Tasting Guide

    We're asked lots of questions about how best to navigate our coffee menu and flavor notes. So here you have it! We’ve developed a Stumptown Coffee Tasting Guide.

  • Coffee 101: How to Select a Coffee

    Your coffee bean selection is the foundation of your beverage. Let’s take a look at the questions we need to ask ourselves when choosing a bag of beans, and the various places the answers can lead us.

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    Fresh Cut Flowers: Meet Trey and Cody

    Get to know *Fresh Cut Flowers*, the creative team behind our seasonal Vivid Bloom coffee and a capsule collection of co-branded merchandise. Working right down the street from our Main HQ and Roastery in Portland, Oregon, they were the perfect partner to help us bring this coffee and campaign to life.

  • Hospitality Stories: Mix Bakeshop

    Since 2006, Mix Bakeshop has become a locale for the Ashland, OR community to indulge and nourish themselves with artisan pastries and Direct Trade coffee.

  • Hospitality Stories: Hungry Ghost Coffee

    Hungry Ghost Coffee was born in Brooklyn in 2012. Since then, it's grown to 13 locations throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan, each with its own personality and reflection of the neighborhood it serves.

  • Hospitality Stories: Flora Restaurant Group

    Nat Stratton-Clarke is the owner of the Flora Restaurant Group in Seattle, WA. In celebration of hospitality, we've asked Nat to give us some insights into what hospitality means to him, and how he goes about creating a warm, welcoming environment in the Flora's unique spaces.

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    Coffee 101: What's Up With Roast?

    Our coffee education team demystifies the roasting process, explaining the differences between light, medium, and dark roasts. Our goal is to roast each bean to its optimial expression of balance and sweetness.

  • Pour Over Showdown

    Hand-poured filtered coffee has its own special place in our hearts and mugs. We go deep on our favorites to help you find one that gives you the best buzz for your buck.

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    Producer Spotlight

    A look at ways our coffee partnerships go beyond producing great coffee to include collaborative efforts toward a more equitable and environmentally sustainable future for coffee-producing communities.

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    Onward and Upward with B Corp

    Find out how we source and serve the best coffees in the world in a way that is good for the people involved and the planet - B Corp edition. Plus, a sneak peak at our sustainability goals for the years ahead.

  • Composting Coffee 101: Getting to the Ground Level

    We caught up with Stumptown Cold Brew Operations Manager and home gardener, Tucker Leverton, to get down to the nitty-gritty of composting coffee at home.

  • Oatly: Is It Oat Milk or Oatmilk?

    Take a look behind the cold brew curtain to discover why Stumptown Cold Brew with Oatly is not only delicious but also sustainable thanks to some sweet innovations from our partners at Oatly.

  • Morning Ritual: Kait Hurley

    Kait Hurley is a digital entrepreneur, co-founder of the KAIT app, and creator of the Move + Meditate Method. We sat down with her to find out how she gets going every morning.

  • Notes on Direct Trade: Colombia El Jordan Impact Report

    Ever wondered what “Direct Trade” actually means? Here at Stumptown, it means that we know our producers, we pay high prices for high quality, and we build sourcing relationships that last.

  • On the Wall: Vanessa Renwick

    Filmmaker and visual artist Vanessa Renwick (of The Oregon Department of Kick Ass) presents *Out There*, a collection of large-scale archival pigment prints of her original paintings, at our [downtown Portland cafe](https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/pages/locations-portland-downtown). Vanessa is the first 2020 recipient of the Stumptown Artist Fellowship.

  • On the Path: Erik Keating

    A day going to and fro with NYC production roaster, Erik Keating.

  • How to Perfect Your Pour Over

    Pour overs may be having their day in the sun, but many of our favorites have been around for decades. Whether you’re a first-time Bee House brewer or a V60 master, brewing your best requires a few pro tips.

  • Cold Brew Concentrate

    There’s a new cowboy out on the horizon. Cold Brew Concentrate is our new double strength buddy ready to power you through life’s greatest obstacles. What is it? Well bend an ear, sonny because we're gonna tell ya.

  • Skate Team: Chet Childress

    Chet Childress is a special beast of a man. A nomadic human who seeks out the most special DIY skate spots, he's also a prolific artist that will use any surface he can get his hands on.

  • Skate Team: Elissa Steamer

    Elissa Steamer is one of the all-time greats of skateboarding, period, and was the first woman to achieve pro skateboarder status. She’s a four-time X-Games gold medalist, and played a part in some of the most influential street skate videos of the 1990s and 2000s.

  • Stumptown is a B Corporation

    Midway through 2018, Stumptown quietly became a certified B Corporation, a new kind of business model that balances purpose and profit. As a coffee roaster that started with one cafe in a small city and has expanded into a company with national reach, we came to the realization that we needed a framework to help mindfully grow our business.

  • Meet the Maker: Mississippi Records

    Starting this week, mornings at all Stumptown cafes will be spent playing a curated selection of vinyl from Mississippi Records. We sat down with the record label’s originator Eric Isaacson and friend Gordon Ashworth, to talk about how the label got started and where it’s going.

  • Day Off: Austin Wahl

    In the throes of summer things really start to pick up in little old Portland. People wake up, get out, and do amazing work out in our community. One of our old gold Stumptowners, Austin Wahl, used this hot summer energy to level up his creative side-project and organize his first art show

  • Flower of Flowers

    Earlier this year we traveled with new friends from different creative backgrounds to Antigua, Guatemala. Our film, Flower of Flowers, tells the story of climate change, coffee, and those directly impacted by the changing environment.

  • Nitro Hair Bender Cold Brew

    We are stoked to introduce you to NITRO HAIR BENDER!

  • Cold Brewing FAQs With Our Cold Brew Expert

    Our Cold Brew expert answers the questions we receive most frequently about brewing [Cold Brew](https://www.stumptowncoffee.com/collections/cold-brew) at home.

  • What is Cascara?

    Everything you need to know about the lesser known part of the coffee fruit.

  • Studio Visit: Winston the Whale

    We caught up with Dave, aka Winston the Whale at his studio in Portland, OR.

  • Studio Visit: Sam Larson

    We met designer and illustrator Sam Larson after he sketched up one of our paper cups, and asked him to design one for us soon after. We recently sat down with him in his North Portland studio to talk about drawing on coffee cups and exploring the grand wild lands of the West.

  • Stumptown Cafe Opens in Portland Airport

    The skies just got a whole lot friendlier. Stumptown PDX Airport cafe now open.

  • A Look Back at the Cold Brew Stubby: A Five Year History

    On its fifth birthday, we take a look back at the origin story of the Cold Brew stubby.

  • Coffee Class: Get Fresh

    Around here, we think about freshness a lot. And so do you, apparently. Here is our advice on how to keep your coffee so fresh and so clean.

  • A Note About Peet's

    We’d like to keep you in the loop about some goings-on here at Stumptown.

  • Five Ways to Make Iced Coffee Better

    Good iced coffee is much more than just the sum of its parts. We've got some tips to make it even better.

  • The Facts About Filters

    We decided to do a little coffee filter tête-à-tête with our Coffee Education team to find if a filter affects the final outcome in a cup of coffee. Spoiler alert: It does.

  • How to Brew in a Moka Pot

    The Moka Pot is a classic – but its old-school brew method can scorch your coffee and leave you with a metallic residue. We're here to help.

  • Meet the Maker: Wood & Faulk

    When we set out to create our ideal travel brew kit we knew we had to get the bag just right, which is exactly why we teamed up with Matt Pierce from Wood & Faulk.

  • Grind 101

    When people ask us about better brewing tips, getting the grind right is always at the top of our suggestion list.