Heart Coffee Roasters opened in Portland, Oregon, in 2009 and is owned and operated by Wille and Rebekah Yli-Luoma. Its original cafe on East Burnside was built around a working vintage Probat roaster, and it now runs cafes plus a separate roasting facility. Heart does not label roast levels; it aims for even development that brings out sweetness and fruit, and ties every bag to a quality-tested roast record. The roaster publishes the FOB price it paid for each coffee and reports direct relationships with producers in Kenya, Ethiopia, Colombia, Honduras and other origins. Its clean, fruit-forward Kenyan and Ethiopian lots and price transparency make it a good roaster for home brewers who want to know exactly what they are buying.



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