Central Oregon’s qualification coffee theatre is buzzier than ever, from award-winning micro-roasters to hipster specialty cafes. But a latest further to a java enlightenment is something we haven’t seen anywhere else — not even in New York or San Francisco.
Riff, located inside The Box Factory in Bend, is a first-ever space clinging to cold brewed coffee, a technique that yields reduce astringency and a smoother season than your normal Joe.
When it opens in mid-November, the 3,700 block foot, gray-tiled taproom will underline a custom-built, sculptural daub pouring 16 singular Riff offerings, from Paint a Town, an Ethiopian decoction ripping with hints of blueberry, to Rift Lift, a palate-tickling, stimulating cold brew.
There’ll also be CBD-infused cold brew, cold decoction qualification cocktails, chocolate cold brew, cold decoction combine shots and drink collaborations. You’ll even be means to suffer cold brewed coffees with varying levels of caffeine and exhilarated nitro cold brewed coffee poured from a tap. That’s substantially a tellurian first.
“The universe thinks of coffee in a one-dimensional approach when it’s unequivocally utterly multi-faceted,” explains Riff’s Paul Evers, during a new debate of Riff’s prolongation trickery in Redmond. “We wish to uncover people a far-reaching operation of flavors and practice they can have with coffee.”
Evers knows a thing or dual about libation experiences. He’s a co-founder of Bend’s Crux Fermentation Project and began collaborating on a Riff judgment behind in 2016 with his 4 partners, including Nate Armbrust, former executive of cold decoction product growth and brewing operations during Stumptown. Armbrust is credited with inventing nitro cold brew.
They’re anticipating people know a embellishment behind a taproom’s splendid picture of a coffee tree, a fruit flourishing in citrus, stone-fruit and berry hues, covering a whole wall behind a bar.
“Coffee has turn so critical and it’s always compared with dim colors, like black and brown,” Evers said. “But if we demeanour during a coffee season wheel, it’s indeed as extended as booze and chocolate. Cold brewed coffee creates those flavors some-more immediate, and we wish to share that with people.”
Riff works with Thornton Family Coffee Roasters of Beaverton to source organic coffee directly from growers. These delicately comparison beans are ground, eliminated to stainless-steel tanks and steeped in cold H2O for approximately 15 hours. What we finish adult with, Evers says, is coffee that has extracted all a fascinating compounds, while withdrawal behind those that are acidic and bitter.
All those interesting flavors and aromas will span beautifully with food, and taproom cook Jackson “Rooster” Higdon, before of Crux Fermentation Project, has a menu designed that includes salads, sandwiches, pellet bowls and build-your-own cheese and charcuterie boards. There might be a few surprises, too.
Because of a accumulation of flavors voiced in cold decoction coffee, a possibilities for pairings seem endless, and that creates Higdon quite excited. “Cold brewed coffee is not only for a chocolate dessert or an part to supplement earthiness to your grill salsa anymore,” he pronounced around email.
Nibble and sip while station during a winding bar, seated on a friendly lounge in a loft or by a Murphy stage. Just reason on — this could be coffee’s fourth wave.