Portland Coffee Fair

With gratitude to Unilocal,the hubs & I hooked up with a pair of tickets to hang out at the Coffee Fair this past weekend held at the World Forestry Center. Good Times & Yummy coffee!
There were some really interesting & enlightening displays in the Discovery Museum building showing you where coffee is grown, how its harvested, basically, everything from baby bean to coffee cup. IKEA had a «lounge» set up there offering samples of their products and coffees, as well as store catalogs to help bring in business. (Oh well, they were a major sponsor)
Cheatham Hall is where the action was though. Over a dozen vendors from cafes/​roasters, artists, & publications. It was great to see demonstrations, learn about new trends in brewing, and especially, try new coffees!
In my opinion the big winners of the event, other than coffee junkies, were Longbottom Coffee & Tea Inc, & Portland Roasting Coffee. Not only did they have the best coffees at the fair, their staff was more than willing to talk about their roasting and brewing, as well as talk about new products, & just have friendly coffee chit-​chat!
For future reference, if any of you other vendors are reading my review, the best way to bring in new business, & try to get new customers interested in your products is to be kind to them. Talk with them. Not bark at them that there is only 2 bags left of the beans you brought for sale, or on the opposite side of the spectrum, ignore them after they told you, «I’m sorry, no I haven’t tried your coffee before».
Anyway, the fair was great fun… hopefully I’ll be there for the next one!