Brian Yaeger - Oregon Breweries

There are roughly fifty coffee roasters in Portland despite, or possibly because of, the fact that there are also fifty Starbucks stores in Stumptown, which just so happens to also be the name of the largest of the citys local roasters. We know this statistic thanks to Ruth Brown, my former colleague at Portlands alt-weekly Willamette Week. Perhaps thats a weird detail to include in a book about Oregons beer, but in a city so rich with breweries that one of its many nicknames is Beervanawhich really applies to the whole stateit speaks to the way Orego nians feel about and support all things handmade, small batch, and local, to the point of being from ones neighborhood and not just region. Im not picking on Starbucks, as they have served a vital function in educating a wide audience about specialty coffee and better technique in making it, especially when you consider that every supermarket still has tubs of instant coffee on their shelves. Nevertheless, here are the Portland areas independent coffee roasters available to caffeinate you at the sole or flagship stores listed below. Roasters without a store are listed with only their website.

Altura Coffee Roasters, AlturaCoffeeRoasters.com

Badbeards Microroastery, BadBeardsCoffee.com

Blac Coffee Roasters, BlacCoffee.com

Blue Kangaroo, BlueKangarooCoffee.com; 7901 SE 13th Ave.; (503) 756-0224

Boyds Coffee, Boyds.com

Bridgetown Coffee, BridgetownCoffeeExpress.com

Case Study Coffee, CaseStudyCoffee.com; 5347 SE Sandy Blvd.; (503) 477-8221

Cellar Door Coffee, CellarDoorCoffee.com; 921 SW 16th Ave; (503) 221-7435

Clive Coffee, CliveCoffee.com; 79 SE Taylor St.; (800) 520-2890

Coava Coffee Roasters, CoavaCoffee.com; 524 SE Main St.; (503) 894-8134

Coffee Bean International, CoffeeBeanIntl.com; 603 SW Broadway; (503) 243-6374

Courier Coffee, CourierCoffeeRoasters.com; 923 SW Oak St.; (503) 545-6444

Extracto Coffee, ExtractoCoffeeHouse.com; 2921 NE Killingsworth St.; (503) 281-1764

Greyhound Coffee Roasters, GreyhoundCoffeeRoasters.com

Happy Cup Coffee Co., HappyCup.com

Hawthorne Coffee Merchant, HawthorneCoffee.com

Heart Coffee Roasters, HeartRoasters.com; 2211 E. Burnside St.; (503) 206-6602

K&F Coffee, KandFCoffee.com; 2706 SE 26th Ave.; (503) 238-2547

Kobos Coffee, Kobos.com; 200 SW Market St. and 2355 NW Vaughn St.; (800) 557-5226

Marigold Coffee, MarigoldCoffee.com

McMenamins, Mcmenamins.com/406-mcmenamins-coffee-roasters-home

Mudd Works, MuddWorks.com; 537 SE Ash St., No. 108; (503) 236-2326

Night Owl Roasters, NightOwlRoasters.com

Oblique Coffee Roasters, ObliqueCoffeeRoasters.com; 3039 SE Stark St.; (503) 228-7883

Nossa Familia, FamilyRoast.com

Portland Roasting, PortlandRoasting.com

Red E Coffee, Facebook.com/TheRedECafe; 1006 N. Killingsworth St.; (503) 998-1387

Rose City Coffee Co., RoseCityCoffeeCo.com

Roseline Coffee, RoselineCoffee.com

Ristretto Coffee Roasters, RistrettoRoasters.com; 555 NE Couch St.; (503) 284-6767

2181 NW Nicolai St.; (503) 227-2866

3808 N. Williams Ave.; (503) 288-8667

Schondecken Roasters, RoseCityCoffeeCo.com; 6720 SE 16th Ave.; (503) 236-8234

Seven Virtues Coffee, SevenVirtuesPDX.com; 5936 NE Glisan St.; (503) 236-7763

Spella Caffe, SpellaCaffe.com; 520 SW 5th Ave.; (503) 752-0264

Spielman Coffee Roasters and Bagels, SpielmanBagels.com; 2128 SE Division St.; (503) 467-0600

Spunky Monkey, Monkeyroasters.com

St. Johns Coffee Roasters, StJohnsCoffee.com

Sterling Coffee Roasters, SterlingCoffeeRoasters.com; 417 NW 21st Ave.

Stumptown, StumptownCoffee.com; Five Portland locations. The original and only one that roasts on-premises: 4525 SE Division St.; (503) 230-7702

Trailhead Coffee Roasters, TrailheadCoffeeRoasters.com; 1847 E. Burnside St., No. 105

Urban Grind Coffee, Facebook.com/UrbanGrindCoffee

Water Avenue Coffee Co., WaterAvenueCoffee.com; 1028 SE Water Ave.; (503) 808-7083

World Cup Roasting, WorldCupCoffee.com; 1740 NW Glisan St.; (503) 228-5503

ZBeanz, ZBeanz.com

Ava Roasteria, AvaRoasteria.com; 4655 SW Hall Blvd., Beaverton; (503) 641-7270

Dovetail Coffee Roasters, coffeebeancoffeeroasters.com

Happyrock Coffee Roasting Co., HappyRockCoffee.com; 465 Portland Ave., Gladstone; (503) 650-4876

Longbottom Coffee and Tea, LongBottomCoffee.com; 4893 NW 235th Ave., Hillsboro; (800) 288-1271

BJs Coffee Co., 2834 Pacific Ave., Suite C, Forest Grove; (503) 357-0969

For I. P. Yae

Copyright 2014 by Stackpole Books

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FIRST EDITION

Cover design by Tessa J. Sweigert
Author photo by Max Gerber
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Yaeger, Brian.
Oregon breweries / Brian Yaeger. First edition.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8117-1211-8
1. BreweriesOregonGuidebooks. 2. OregonGuidebooks. I. Title.
TP573.U6Y34 2014
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eBook ISBN 978-0-8117-6057-7

I may have written this book single-handedly (well, I used one hand when it came to trying the hundreds of beers it took to research all of Oregons breweries, but both hands to type), but I didnt do it alone. Such an undertaking relied on the huge assistance and encouragement of many, chiefly my very supportive wife, Kimberley, a.k.a. Half Pint. The fact that she gave me her blessing to go off on journeys around the Great State of Oregon with a brand new baby at home wouldve been gracious enough. That she spent so much time helping to edit and guide the manuscript makes her deserving of some kind of wifely medal, which in this case is a bottle of The Abyss.

Speaking of editing, thanks to John Holl, my new editor at All About Beer magazine, for throwing my name into Stackpoles hat to pen the Oregon volume in the fantastic series of brewery guidebooks by state. Likewise, a huge vow of appreciation to Brittany Stoner (and Kyle Weaver) at Stackpole. Holl is the co-author of two such titlesIndiana Breweries and Massachusetts Breweriesso Id just like to say: Hey, you can fit two Indianas and three Massachusettses into Oregon! I guess that means I then owe him five beers. Speaking of All About Beer, although Id just published Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey, that was the first beer magazine to publish me and set me on the path to being a freelance beer writer. Im grateful to publisher Daniel Bradford and contributing editor Julie Anne Johnson for the continued support. I look forward to some pints of that delicious North Carolina beer with you soon.

I cant thank enough my friends and colleagues in the Oregon beer writing and blogging community. The list starts with the Dean of American Beer Writers, Fred Eckhardt, who penned A Treatise on Lager Beers before the esteemed Michael Jackson and Charlie Papazian published their first books. Deep into his eighties, he remains active in the beer scene and his charitable birthday party, FredFest at Hair of the Dog, is not to be missed.