by Charles Noble on January 5, 2010
Justin “Badbeard” Kagan, the Portland cellist neé coffee roaster and foodie extraordinaire, has been featured in today’s Oregonian courtesy of the O’s classical music critic David Stabler. It’s a nice write up, and you can find it here. Justin does a great job of explaining his coffee ethos, and that is worth sharing once more:
Coffee [...]
by Charles Noble on November 24, 2009 · 2 comments
Not my best work, but it was worth a shot (get it?).
Made using Badbeard’s primo beans, his Mondo Cello blend. Badbeard has got the Symphony! blend ready to ship, and there will be decaf and espresso blends with the Symphony moniker available soon. Support the Oregon Symphony and enjoy some of Portland’s best coffee while [...]
by Charles Noble on November 17, 2009 · 2 comments
Portland’s own Badbeard’s Microroastery will be offering a new signature blend called Symphony – for every one pound bag of freshly roasted coffee that you purchase direct from Badbeard himself (in fact local cellist and coffee geek extraordinaire Justin Kagan, a frequent performer with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Cello Project, Red Sneakers, and more) two [...]
by Charles Noble on July 15, 2009
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by Charles Noble on April 9, 2009
Today I took a trip to my good friend Justin Kagan’s coffee roasterie off Johnson Creek Blvd in SE Portland, where both he and business partner Andrea Spella roast their exquisite lots of super premium coffees. It was such a great experience – sensory overload was always a possibility – and it was great to [...]
by Charles Noble on October 20, 2008
Which include having a friend who is a coffee roaster (opens in a new window) par excellence!