Blind Coffee Roasters

portland takes its coffee seriously, which means the bar for a roastery to actually stand out is genuinely high. blind coffee roasters, out on ne aloclek drive in hillsboro, sits a little outside the usual inner-eastside conversation, but that distance hasn't hurt its reputation among the people who make the trip. this is a roasting operation first, which shapes everything about how you engage with it: the focus here is on what's happening to the bean before it ever hits a cup. the regulars are consistent and vocal in their enthusiasm, the kind of crowd that comes back not out of habit but out of preference. if you're heading out to the suite 219 address, go early in the morning when the roastery is at its most active.