Hello readers!
It's been a while, and boy do we have some catching up to do. Since my last update I have competed and placed 6th overall in the Western Canadian Barista competition...it was an amazing experience and I look forward to competing again this year.
I also made a trip to Portland...for me, the coffee mecca of North America. Everything good seems to happen there. Here are some snippets of our trip, big thanks to Brent Fortune for being a most excellent tour guide! I cannot wait to go back.
We stayed at the Jupiter hotel in Burnside...cool place if you like to party all night, not cool if you want to sleep. That said it was an awesome idea, an old motel converted into a hip outdoor hotel (yeah that's right there IS a difference) the restaurant connected to the lobby was a selling feature all on it's own...
the doug fir. Amazing burgers, killer breakfast and cheap beer.
Ok so I know why we are here...what about the coffee you're asking, ok well here we go!
First stop:
Stumptown coffee at the Ace hotel
You cannot go to Portland and not go to Stumptown. This is where it all started in some ways...Stumptown paved the way for many of the micro roasters and 3rd wave shops that inhabit the streets of this lovely little town today. The fact that the Ace hotel is one of the hippest of hip places to stay makes it no surprise that the cafe in their lobby is an actual Stumptown location. Had an espresso, my first taste of the magic that PDX had to offer...it tasted like heaven
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