Boyd Coffee Company

Everyone is so nice. The prices are very reasonable, and the coffee is always good. Their French Roast is excellent. It ranks at the top of my list. I see that they added a couch today, so the place should even be more comfortable now. :-)

A relaxing place to meet my husband at lunchtime and have a skinny hot chocolate. I wish they sold some fruit :-)

Always fresh and very hot coffee. Great display of the company history and information about coffee processing. Good place for kids and adults. Several pastries and many gift items on display for purchase. A fun place for all.

I recently purchased single serve cups to use in my Keurig. They are amazing! They smell delicious when you first open the package and the resulting cup of coffee is so much better than what you get from any of those plastic K-​cups. Great way to get your morning started! Fred Meyer carries the single serve cups.

I just stopped in and gave this place a try. Absolutely loved it! Great prices great selection! Very friendly staff! I had no idea this had a coffee shop inside, i have been tired of all the bad coffee shops around here and I have found my new go to place! I highly recommend it if you are in the area!

If you ever have an opportunity to tour the processing facility, I highly recommend it. Fun, interesting and informative. You get to see the process beginning to end. I THOUGHT that I knew a lot about the roasting process before I did the tour, but I learned so much.
We were lucky enough to have Tim Boyd (3^rd generation family business) as our tour guide, very lucky.
After the tour, we stopped by the gift shop/​store to make a few purchases of course.
This event was quite a treat from start to finish.

Boyd’s Coffee house shipping department or the order takers SUCK and its not from only one experience, but good products just dont expect your order to come.

Went into this coffee shop twice this week. They have a .99 special on coffee.
Being nearly in Gresham, at 197^th, where the nearest cultural facility is a waste treatment facility, and the highest percentage of cultural groups consist of Guatamalans and their six children each (purchasing lives rotate around 7 – 11, Walmart, and the corner store, where they apparently endlessly and constantly circle with neon colored plastic strollers, entirely at their ease, like nannies of British Lords promenading around Berkeley square), working class natives in prefabricated housing (addicted to Folgers), and people, people, my God, who have never heard of Stumptown coffee, I’m amazed they get any business at all.
I was impressed by the STRENGTH of this coffee. I am also impressed by the STRENGTH of 7 – 11 coffee, but it’s because it’s a battery acid-​like strength. No, this was decent coffee-​strength coffee, not a coffee-​like substrate, not a tea-​like compound. My problem: all of their medium blends, (I tried all but the decaf) seem to be of this thing called, um. Citrus-​y? Citrus-​y is a thing that Stumptown started, which is cooler than a smooth French blend, because of Manhattan. Manhattan digs Stumptown, so we all have to drink it now. What it means: It means that you are an AMERICAN. It means that you like coffees from AFRICA?, where the people wake up and drum at dawn every day, it means that you do not want the taste equivalent of a Monteverdi motet sung with the sweetness possible only in Nadia Boulanger’s private chambers in 1947, no, you want the taste equivalent of the Swing Era bands, Pledge furniture polish, and apple cider vinegar to hit you first thing, before 10 am. The word SOUR means nothing to you. French Roast is grampa’s roast. Etc. etc.
That was today. Yesterday they had a decent dark roast. I let it marinate for a few hours in the cup, to near perfection.
They have a really neat mission statement in the visitor’s area of their roasting facilities on-​site, indicating that THEY ARE NOT COOL. COFFEE is what GRANPA DRANK AS HE WON WWII, built the nation’s interstate system, stared down the Soviets in the Cold War, and chopped down the NW forests.
Boyd’s has been chased out of downtown by, um, really cool chains like, Stumptown, and maybe even Peets, where you MUST be a lawyer and MUST kiss the ass of your 20 yr old server to drink their high class joe.
My server here was a little citrusy, I have to say, a little orangey bright /​Andrews sisters for my taste. But she’s not 20 and she’s not downtown Portland. That’s the point.
So I like her.
Both of my servers were possibly over 40. Meaning, whoever they are, they were hired to serve coffee, not to function as soft-​porn eye candy for customers.
Yes, this is what you get when you leave Portland, grownups.
Boyd’s is not my favortie, but it’s also not coffee-​like substrate.
PS. Out past 100^th, where the economy is either «realistic» or «impoverished» according to your bias, I’ve noted that coffee in some joints has stayed a reasonable price, at less that $ 2.00 a cup. My general rule of thumb: if bus fares and the price of a regular joe are not roughly equal, (they are not in Portland– the bus costs more) you are living in a place where you have boutique transportation system (just for commuters, not for those without a car), and you are therefore at a high risk of encountering 1-​recreational violence 2– childish, politically correct bullshit 3– annoying children in retro (pick the decade) clothing. This means your entire cultural life is essentially boutique, overpriced, overvalued, oversexualized, and stupid. The price of coffee follows bus fare up the scale, but not as fast when you are in places where people might use up some of their living expenses on transportation because of need, not coolness points, or to save the earth. (I’ve been randomly offered used day passes at MAX stations by exiting passengers twice in one week east of 82^nd, another sign that perhaps people know instinctively that the coffee-​bus continuum is out of whack., and we should be paying less for each).
So move.
PS I know that in the Depression people talked about the price of bread. The price of bread, for a good loaf, is about five to seven bucks in Portland. So I’m keeping away from that. I can live without bread, but not without coffee.

Review for ONLINE PURCHASE
Recently placed an order for some coffeemaker accessories. ISSUES:
1. After placing the order, several days went by with no confirmation or tracking # sent to me. When I pinged them, they pleasantly replied within a few hours with the info. Still, I shouldn’t have to remind THEM.
2. Tell me again how a company located in a state with NO SALES TAX on anything (Oregon) figures that they need to charge sales tax on an out of state internet purchase? They must have gotten their hands slapped by some greedy bureaucrats recently, because the last time I ordered from them I was not charged tax. To their credit, there is a «warning» on their site which states that you may be charged sales tax after the fact. But you don’t find out until your CC is hit. That’s right, in 2009, their e-​commerce system cannot effectively calculate sales tax at the time of the order.
Lousy ordering experience aside, Boyd’s is one of the few authorized U.S. resellers of the Dutch Technivorm (
) line of coffeemakers, the best built drip-​machines in the world. So when I need parts, I will reluctantly order from Boyd’s again. Until I can find a better reseller.