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Steve Lanphier

Male

Portland

United States

Profile Information:

What is your position in the coffee industry?: barista, barista trainer, coffee roaster, coffee enthusiast, industry professional, consultant, supplier, entrepreneur
Where are you located? ( City and Country ): Banks, Oregon
How many years have you been in the industry?: Professionally for about 13 years but I have been playing with speciality coffees since the early '70's
If you are a barista or shop, are you interested in a barista exchange with another coffee shop/barista?: maybe
Tell us more about your coffee shop or barista skills.: As a trainer/roaster/all-round coffee geek I have had the opportunity to work with people at all levels of experience and commitment. I have worked as a Barista for a very busy shop as well and I am a proponent for the whole "3rd Wave movement" in the speciality coffee world, Fair Trade, C.O.E. Sustainability are all important parts of this and I am able to speak to these issues.
What cities or countries are you interested in traveling to?: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Yemen. PNG, Sumatra, Java, All of S. and Central America.
About Me:: Prior to entering the speciality coffee world, I was a chef for over 20 years, working in S. California and Portland, Or for various resorts and hotels as well as being sous-chef and catering mgr at Jake's in Portland. During this time I was always experimenting with coffee blends, buying my beans and playing with various combinations until I had it "just right". Eventually my experience as a chef led me to conclude that roasting coffee was something I could do too...sure enough, I was right. From then on, I have absorbed everything I could learn about coffee and espresso and the science involved in the making of perfect drinks and pass that on in training new baristas. I love to travel and go to origin whenever possible. I have been to Papua New Guinea while working for Portland Roasting to kick off the building of a new schoolhouse for the people of the Kinjibi tribe that we were buying direct from. I have also participated a judge in the Cerrado Quality cupping competition in Brazil 2 years ago.
Now I work with Bruno Souza and Beccor (Brazilian Estates Coffee Corp.) importing and offering the finest Brazilian Arabicas along with choice coffees from around the world.
About My Company:: Beccor-Brazilian Estates Cafe' Corp. is essentially a cooperative of farmers from three regions in Minas Gerais which produces fifty percent of Brazil's coffee: South Minas; Cerrado and Matas de Minas.
The Cerrado coffees are known for their intense aroma with notes between caramel, nuts and slight citric acidity. A fabulous Body between moderate and medium-heavy, and Flavor of sweet chocolate notes.
We work with the producers and roasters to directly import the coffees that best meet the Roaster's profile, enabling farmers to sell their coffees directly to the roaster.
Website:: http://www.beccor.com

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Jason Dominy

I love Georgia, too, even though I am in Charlotte now. I tell you, right now I am diggin our Dilworth Papua New Guinea. It's just right for the weather, and even though I am not normally a dark coffee lover, I love one that still has a good, deep sweetness to it. I also had a Rwandan today that we are sampling for a special coffee that was real good! How are things out West?

Jan 9, 2008
Sean Grant

Hey Steve...As a matter of fact thats who I'm going with. A group of other roasters and myself are going over with Mike & Ujwala. I'm looking forward to this educational trip. I'll get back with you upon my return.

Jan 9, 2008
Bruce Milletto

steve yes the site is a bit addictive but wait till there are a few thousand members and matt adds more bells and whistles - then yikes !!

Jan 9, 2008
Liddy

Hey, things have been great here! We had a great December and we are about to get hooked up with some great Faema machines, so i am super excited about that! Hope things are good in Portland!

Jan 10, 2008
Brian Conroy

hey Steve, Happy New Year. Hope your doing well. I haven't spoke to you in a couple of weeks. Have a great Latte. Talk to you soon.

Jan 10, 2008
Ensei Neto

Hi, Steve.
Happy 2008 !
Talk to you soon, my friend.

Jan 14, 2008
Gustavo from NUCOFFEE

Hi Steve, Great to have you on-board with our great coffee beans from Brazil !

Jan 14, 2008
Mike Love

Hey, Steve
have we meet before?

Jan 14, 2008
The Barista Formerly Known As JavaJ

Hi Steve. We are 15 minutes outside of downtown in Roseville. We'd love to have you up for a visit. I know all those shops you listed, and we are good friends with Sartory.

Jan 14, 2008
Thomas Hodges

Looking forward to our "thrice" a year reunion Steve!

Jan 14, 2008
Pacificocoffee

Do you keep any of your coffees at the the Anex
in the San Francisco Bay area?

Jan 15, 2008
Todd Plummer

Caw!

Jan 15, 2008
Dismas

Steve sounds great. Joel is supposed to be by today but, that doesn't mean you still can't drop by.

Jan 15, 2008
Steve Lanphier

I look forward to pulling some shots with you soon.

Jan 15, 2008
Pacificocoffee

Hi Steve that would be great!
Thanks!

Jan 15, 2008
Doug Becker

Hi Steve,

Thanks for introducing me to the group.

I've been to Grounded once. Nice place.

I left a message and an e-mail for Ken. He has not gotten back to me. I'm sure he is just busy. If you happen to talk to him, ask him to get back to me please.

Thanks again,

Doug

Jan 17, 2008
Pacificocoffee

Thanks Steve, I got the "Stuff" today. LoL ;-)
Talk to you next week.
Ciao,
Barney

Jan 25, 2008
Steve Lanphier

Ehhhxxcellent.....
and you should be receiving more shortly to give you enough to play with.
Cheers,
Steve

Jan 28, 2008
Danny Bresciani

Thanks for the add.

Jan 29, 2008
Steve Lanphier

My pleasure...I'm a long time fan of Nuova Simonelli and am right now enjoying a beautiful macchiato from my Oscar.
Cheers!
Steve

Jan 30, 2008
Cynthia

Hi Steve. Thanks for accepting me as a friend. I can see this site taking up a lot of my time. It's work related though—right? ...

Jan 30, 2008
Steve Lanphier

Absolutely....it's also tax deductable and it whitens your teeth too, so how can you resist? Seriously...how

Jan 30, 2008
Michael Buhler

are you saying that as friends of kenzo, misery loves company? will he (hopefully) see this? lol

thanks for the greeting :)

Jan 30, 2008
Steve Lanphier

You DO know Ken...well Giddyup.
If Ken is the man I think he is...he's probably on this all day anyway...hi Ken :)

Jan 30, 2008
Jeff Taylor

Coffees arrived as soon as I hung up the phone. figures! :O) I'll cup them when I get back next week.

Feb 12, 2008
Steve Lanphier

Ehhxcellent...Have a good trip, talk to you when you get back.

Feb 12, 2008
Ed Viser

Steve;

Thanks. We are all dong well over here. Shamrock is going strong after 7 months. Where are you at anyway these days???

Feb 15, 2008
Moto-Espresso Coffee Carts

Hello Steve,

Bom dia, tudo bom? Please- let's have a dialog about Brazil. I have a house in Salvador da Bahia, but we are now living in Monterey. I'd like to hear about your coffee exploits in Minas and of course you're welcome to Monterey.

Feb 15, 2008
Fede Cabrera

Hey Steve,

Thanks for your interest! I`m sending a brief summary of my project by mail.

I hope you find it interesting.

Best regards,
Federico

Feb 16, 2008
Lisa Keyte

Hey Steve
thanks for the welcome and the yirg! I need to check on my Brazil supply and get back to you.
Looks like I need to find a photo for this site to replace weird shadow guy over there. I like yours.

Feb 16, 2008
Ingibjörg Jóna Sigurðardóttir

Hello Steve.

No, I´ll be going to SCAE and WBC in Copenhagen this year.

Feb 17, 2008
Fede Cabrera

Hello Steve, thanks for your message. I`ll keep posting news/requests at "Social Projects". Best regards, Federico

Feb 18, 2008
Tera Schmeling

Well hello there Steve!!! Absolutely we should be friends after all we live only 2 hours away from each other!!! A cupping would be wonderful! So you know Ken huh? Yeah, Pablo's thing sounds very interesting...did you check out his website? His plantation looks amazing! So you import green beans??? Do you sell all over the U.S.?

Feb 20, 2008
Tera Schmeling

Alberto is great too!!! So is Sergio!!! Great guys!!! Well very cool, I'll be sure to refer people to you who are needing green beans!!! We work with the end users mostly though but of course some of them want to get into roasting...its always the next progression...do you make it to Eugene often?

Feb 20, 2008
Steve Lanphier

Not as often as you would think, maybe I should plan to visit soon, what is your schedule like next week?

Feb 20, 2008
Jason Dominy

Steve, how ya doing man?

Feb 22, 2008
Kevin Cuddeback

Hi Steve, I'll be your friend. Don't bug Mike, bug me instead. BTW, since I got you on the line, what's the deal with logo'd cupping spoons?

Feb 29, 2008
Danny

Hi Steve, Singapore's coffee scene is definitely picking up with the likes of Starb****s, Gloria Jeans, and local chains such as coffee club, TCC, etc. However, it is a very sad thing that Barista are not well recognised here and gets paid miserably. On top that, marketing has created too much hype regarding single origin coffee by tapping into their sexy sounding names such as Jamaican Blue Mountains, or Sumatran Java etc. As in my blog, I aim to increase the awareness of the profession of Barista in my country and the art of coffee making.

Mar 23, 2008
comforteagle1965

How are ya buddy? Hope life s good. I opened two new locations and I have two new products in development so I have been busy. Tell me what your up to when you get a chance. chow

Mar 24, 2008
comforteagle1965

Hey! OK, OK, Back by popular demand the helmet will come back! I know more good things will come your way. Your a positive guy and positive energy produces more. Talk to ya later. D

Mar 26, 2008
Mike Cannon

Hey, Steve! Hope everything is going well with you. It always was a pleasure to bump into you in the halls at Portland Roasting. Keep well, and take care!

Apr 10, 2008
Steve Lanphier

Hey Mike, It's good to hear from you and thanks for the add too. I've been hanging at Spella Caffe, 9th & Alder..I'm there most mornings. drop by and I'll pull you some shots.
Cheers!

Apr 11, 2008
Charles Weber

I love your photo Steve... hehe

May 28, 2008
comforteagle1965

Hey Steve! yes, lost your phone number! Call me, let's meet down at the warehouse. :)

May 28, 2008
comforteagle1965

Darin @ 503-871-5282

May 28, 2008
MDU

MR. LANPHIER ,PLEASE EDUCATE ME.OUT OF 1 KILOGRAMS OF COFFEE BEANS ,HOW MANY ESPRESSO`S MUST ONE GET.

Aug 19, 2008
Mike Cannon

It was a pleasure running into you at Coffeefest! One of my dearest friends has been making a habit out of visiting Spella Cafe; I couldn't tell you how jealous of her I've been! I'm going to make a special pilgrimage down to Portland to get a cup from you one of these upcoming Wednesdays, and I can hardly wait!

Sep 18, 2008
Sarah Dooley

wow! Thanks for joining so fast, can't wait to see what you put up to view Steve.

Nov 5, 2008
Brian Conroy

Hi Steve, give me a call. Lets have coffee.

Nov 25, 2008
Rich Abker

Love them Brazils,

Very recognizable after taste through back of the throat and nasal passage!
They can really be enhanced by certain mild beans in a blend.

Dec 5, 2008

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