Coffee & Tea News

World Water Day is just around the corner and will be here before we know it! We are currently working on organizing the benefit concert taking place on the evening of Monday, March 22, 2010, on the official World Water Day, and we wanted to get some input from all of you on any suggestions or requests for artists [...]

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 took us almost three hours from Coimbatore town to [...]

Last Friday, Portland Roasting’s cupping 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. All these coffee samples tasted really fruity, so we wanted to discover what kind of fruit matched the same flavors [...]

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 [...]