Yesterday, while browsing around on NYTimes, I ran across an article about Stumptown Stubbies and knew I had to try one. Today, I stopped by my local Stumptown inside of the Ace Hotel and picked up one. 

I’d first like to say that the bottle design is cool. I really like the idea of trying different cold press coffees in this way. Coldness has a way of covering up bad flavors in some libations, but it really does enhance the flavor of coffee. And cold press is my preferred style for the summer, hands down. If you like strong coffee, you’re going to love this. The bottle packs a punch and I recommend splitting it with a partner over ice.

I’m starting to think that my taste buds are useless and that I’m not really a supertaster. Why? Because every bag of coffee I try in Portland, I absolutely enjoy.

I’d like to bring to your attention yet another delicious bag of coffee. This weeks bag comes from Coava (pronounced ko-vuh) Coffee Roasters and is named Chapadão de Ferro “Plateau of Iron.” The beans are grown near an extinct volcano and so they are rich with iron, magnesium and potassium.

If you’re not familiar with Coava, you might like to know that their name comes from the Turkish translation of green coffee and each bag is roasted and packaged in small batches right in Stumptown. If you’re a real coffee dork, you might also like to know that each bean is roasted in a Diedrich IR-3 roaster. 

You can grab a bag and read more about this coffee here.

As you’ve possibly read before, Extracto is one of my favorite coffee roasters. By now I’ve had at least a couple of gallons of Stumptown coffee. Their coffees are hard to beat, but Extracto is doing something right that keeps me coming back. The last batch of Extracto Guatamala Finca that I tried was delicious.

Luckily, I made it to 21st Market when I did because I bought the last bag. So here it is, the Extracto Uganda Bugisu Double Pick roast, and I can’t wait to drink this throughout the week.

There’s a new coffee joint in town named Sterling Coffee Roasters and K and I are loving it. We just bought the container of beans shown above today. The roast is Costa Rica Herbaza and the beans came in a delightfully packaged refillable glass container. After you use all of the beans, you can take the container down to their location beside Trader Joes on Glisan St. and get it refilled.

I’ll let the GQ coffee experts speak to this week’s coffee. They sum up Verve’s Streetlevel espresso (seen in the photo above) by saying it is:

“…a burly seasonal blend that recently packed Brazilian beans for muscle and El Salvadoran for spice…” via GQ

If you’re a real coffee connoisseur, unlike myself, you might experience hints of orange rind, apricot, butterscotch and cocoa. I had a cup this morning and it was delicious. I recommend it.

This is the coffee of the week. For the past 5 months I’ve been drinking Stumptown, which is great, but I ran across this Guatemala Finca Villaure blend at the City Market on 21st the other day and I figured it’d be a good change — only because the logo is so damn cool. I had a cup this morning and it wasn’t disappointing. I’m not ready to give my full review yet, but I’ll try to put it up once I get to the end of the bag.