{"id":3730,"date":"2010-01-05T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:03:49","slug":"badbeard-hits-the-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/05\/badbeard-hits-the-big-time\/","title":{"rendered":"badbeard hits the big time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin “Badbeard” Kagan, the Portland cellist ne\u00e9 coffee roaster and foodie extraordinaire, has been featured in today’s Oregonian courtesy of the O’s classical music critic David Stabler.\u00a0 It’s a nice write up, and you can find it here<\/a>.\u00a0 Justin does a great job of explaining his coffee ethos, and that is worth sharing once more:<\/p>\n

Coffee should make you think of coffee, not a hipster, fetishistic expression of some great unknown, and it can and should awaken one’s imagination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Justin “Badbeard” Kagan, the Portland cellist ne\u00e9 coffee roaster and foodie extraordinaire, has been featured in today’s Oregonian courtesy of the O’s classical music critic David Stabler.\u00a0 It’s a nice write up, and you can find it here.\u00a0 Justin does a great job of explaining his coffee ethos, and that is worth sharing once more: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[153,140],"tags":[46,385,1559,3666,855,3662],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cello","category-coffee-food-drink","tag-coffee","tag-david-stabler","tag-espresso","tag-oregon","tag-oregonian","tag-portland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Ya","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3403,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/24\/todays-latte-art-badbeards-coffee\/","url_meta":{"origin":3730,"position":0},"title":"today’s latte art + badbeard’s coffee","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Not my best work, but it was worth a shot (get it?). Made using Badbeard's primo beans, his Mondo Cello blend.\u00a0 Badbeard has got the Symphony! blend ready to ship, and there will be decaf and espresso blends with the Symphony moniker available soon.\u00a0 Support the Oregon Symphony and enjoy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "cello"","block_context":{"text":"cello","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/instruments\/cello\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12684,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/03\/buy-superb-coffee-support-a-worthy-cause\/","url_meta":{"origin":3730,"position":1},"title":"buy superb coffee, support a worthy cause","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My buddy Justin Kagan (aka Badbeard) is one of the top roasters of micro-batch coffee in the Northwest (and a kick-ass cellist, and all-around awesome dude), and he has come out with three excellent coffees that will send $4 of the purchase price of each pound of coffee to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "coffee"","block_context":{"text":"coffee","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/food-drink\/coffee-food-drink\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"4562031853_364dd4587e_n","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/4562031853_364dd4587e_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4484,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/21\/badbeards-cousin-on-food-network-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":3730,"position":2},"title":"badbeard’s cousin on food network show","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Badbeard (aka Justin Kagan, of Badbeard's Microroastery and Portland Cello Project, and every other cello-included gig in town) has a connection to the Food Network's Next Food Network Star's upcoming season: his cousin has been selected as a finalist who will appear on the show!\u00a0 Read all about it here.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "fun"","block_context":{"text":"fun","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/fun\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/NFNS6_Aria_s3x4_al.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":962,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/12\/seattle-loses-long-time-music-critic\/","url_meta":{"origin":3730,"position":3},"title":"Seattle loses long-time music critic – is Portland next?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Melinda Bargreen, classical music critic in Seattle for the past 30 years, has accepted a buy-out from the Seattle Times as part of a restructuring of the paper's staff. 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