Skate Team: Chet Childress

Chet Childress is a special beast of a man. A nomadic human who seeks out the most special DIY skate spots, he's also a prolific artist that will use any surface he can get his hands on. He's rep'd Stumptown for over a decade now, and continuously hypes us up with his enthusiasm for life and art in all forms.

Mar 22, 2019
Spaceness

Spaceness is an art festival that solicits work based around the theme of time, space, and the unknown. It was founded in 2015 by Portland artists Alison Jean Cole and Julia Barbee, and takes place every year in the dark, drizzly days of late winter at the Sou’Wester, a criminally charming lodge and vintage camper resort on the Washington coast.

Mar 20, 2019
Spirit Tea

Stumptown has a new tea in the house. Spirit Tea was founded in Chicago in 2015, with the mission to reframe tea in the U.S as a beverage to be enjoyed with care and attention to detail. You can find a full menu of Spirit Teas in all of our cafes now, and dang are we excited for you to try it.

Mar 15, 2019
Skate Team: Nick Boserio

Nick Boserio is the Stumptown Skate Team’s young gun, a fast and loose street skater with an instantly recognizable beard. Nick spent his childhood globe-hopping, his teens in Australia, and now makes his home in Portland, with his wife and young daughter. He recently chatted with our New York apprentice roaster, Erik Keating (aka Sweet E), who started delivering coffee for Stumptown in Portland, moved across the country, and made the switch to roasting in Brooklyn.

Mar 15, 2019
New Seasonal Drinks From Jeffrey Morganthaler

An award-winning bartender, author, and manager of the six-time James Beard Award-nominated bar program at Clyde Common, we've been serving him coffee for the past decade. After years of under the table secret cocktail advice, he's now officially in the fold. Look for his drinks in all of our cafes now, and stay tuned - we'll be rolling out new ones quarterly.

Mar 11, 2019
Stumptown Skate Team: Silas Baxter-Neal

Silas Baxter-Neal hails from Eugene, Oregon where he grew up skating "lumpy" skateparks and crusty street spots. He took a morning to chat with our Chicago cafe lead, Eric Perez, who splits his free time evenly between skateboarding, photography, and running the New Gotham Coffee Community, a nonprofit dedicated to community building and education in the Windy City.

Mar 08, 2019
Skate Team: Elissa Steamer

Elissa Steamer is one of the all-time greats of skateboarding, period, and was the first woman to achieve pro skateboarder status. She’s a four-time X-Games gold medalist, and played a part in some of the most influential street skate videos of the 1990s and 2000s. Our Los Angeles roaster Jessie Frietze was a little kiddo skating around Southern California at the time, and idolized Elissa growing up. These days, when she’s not at the roaster, you can catch Jessie skating bowls all over LA and Orange County. Naturally, we had them chat.

Feb 27, 2019
Stumptown Skate Team

We’ve always invested a lot of resources in company culture and community; as we grow, we’re proud to be able to highlight what has always made Stumptown so special on a bigger stage. We’ve counted skateboarding diehards in our ranks since day one, and this year we were able to make the leap and sponsor our first-ever pro skate team, under the advisement of an internal committee of lifelong shredders.

Feb 20, 2019
Stumptown is a B Corporation

Midway through 2018, Stumptown quietly became a certified B Corporation, a new kind of business model that balances purpose and profit. As a coffee roaster that started with one cafe in a small city and has expanded into a company with national reach, we came to the realization that we needed a framework to help mindfully grow our business.

Feb 11, 2019
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