Black Rose Coffee is your neighborhood roaster Our coffee is roasted in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Southeast Portland, Oregon. We take a lot of pride in delivering fresh coffee across our city, but nothing is better than walking an order over to one of our neighbors. In December, 2022, the Sunnyside Neighborhood News invited Black Rose to sit down and talk about what it means to be a neighborhood small-batch coffee roaster. The article ran in the February, 2023 edition. You can read it via this link ..read more

Why is one coffee roasted medium, another dark roast and another light?  What happens when coffee is roasted to a different temperature?  It’s all about flavor Coffee is grown all over the world, in uniquely different terrains, and there are numerous plant varieties. Coffee processing ranges, both regular coffee and decaf from traditional, low-tech methods to commercial washing. Before green coffee goes to market, it is batch-roasted and cupped (tested) locally.  Whichever way you roast them, all coffees are beans. Purveyors of green coffee provide detailed flavor profiles of ea ..read more

Whether you drink coffee with caffeine or without, you know the catch phrase  We’ve all heard it a million times: Death Before Decaf. It’s printed boldly on coffee mugs and tshirts, bumper stickers and even other bags of coffee. Black Rose Coffee doesn’t believe in any of that.  Decaf is coffee. The same coffee everyone else drinks, just with the caffeine removed. And that process has advanced quite a lot from the days of orange-handle diner decaf. Decaf isn’t harsh chemicals and power-washing the taste off of every bean. At Black Rose, decaf means delicious. Decaf means choice and d ..read more