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Coava Coffee Roasters | Public Brew Bar & Roastery

1015 SE Main St, Portland, OR 97214, USA

SPECIALTY

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Coava operates its Public Brew Bar inside the working roastery at 1015 SE Main, a block off Hawthorne Bridge in Portland's Central Eastside. Matt Higgins started Coava in his garage in 2008, bootstrapping the operation by repairing motorcycles between roasts. Today the cafe gives drinkers a front-row seat to the production line: roasters, packing tables, the whole thing. Pour-over is the move at the brew bar, with a single origin rotation that turns over weekly. Espresso is dialed for clarity over weight. Free public cuppings happen at one in the afternoon every weekday, where anyone can taste through the lineup with the staff. Visitors who buy something afterward get ten percent off. On weekend mornings the room fills with Portland regulars who treat Coava as their living room. Order the rotating single-origin pour-over if you came to taste what Coava is roasting this week. Order the house espresso if you want the dialed shot in a small ceramic cup.

About Portland

Portland built its specialty register on roasters who never moved off the Eastside. Stumptown Coffee Roasters opened on SE Division in 1999 and set the city template for the decade that followed. Coava Coffee Roasters opened in 2008 in a Matt Higgins garage, then moved into the working roastery and Public Brew Bar at 1015 SE Main, a block off the Hawthorne Bridge. Roseline opened in 2011 on SE 11th across from Kachka, with a second cafe on NE Alberta in Concordia. Water Avenue Coffee runs a downtown shop at 1300 SW 5th and the original flagship across the river on SE Water Avenue with a vintage French Samiac drum roaster.

The neighborhood map covers most of the city. Central Eastside and Buckman hold the working roasteries. Hawthorne, Division, and Sellwood-Brooklyn run the slower neighborhood bars. Alberta and Concordia in Northeast carry the second-wave Eastside cafes. The Pearl District covers the Italian and downtown register through Caffe Umbria on NW 12th, which opened in December 2007. Foster-Powell holds Space Monkey Coffee on the corner of SE 72nd and Foster, anchoring that quadrant since 2004.

Portland is also the city where the multi-roaster bean bar started. Barista on NW 13th opened in 2009 in a Pearl District storefront and ran multiple top roasters on the same bar instead of one house roast. The model spread across the city. The result is a market where most serious cafes pour two or three rotating roasters and the bar conversation rotates with them.