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"Mountain Roasted" On-Site for Freshness & Custom Quality Standards |
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Roaster | Founder Winfield Durham
& The Probat Roaster
Established in 1989, Sisters Coffee has a long and intimate story. Our "Mountain Roasted" coffee is roasted at 3,200 ft., near the base of the Cascade Mountain range in Sisters, OR. We roast at this high altitude and in small batches to ensure an excellent cup of coffee. We take pride in the ability to ship and deliver a newly created product to our retail, wholesale, and mail order customers each day.
“I started out roasting, packaging, and delivering myself,” he says, nostalgically thinking back to when he first opened Sisters Coffee Co. almost two decades ago with an L 5 Probat. “I quickly upgraded an L 12 as demand grew and now we have an L 25.” Twenty-five kilograms, that is, as he talks about roasting capacity.
In the old days, we did everything out of a 600 sq. ft. shop. From roasting to packing to serving espresso, the old shop was a quaint and vintage outpost for coffee. Smoke came out of a small chimney to give Sisters a constant aroma of fresh roasted coffee. “And I didn’t even charge for that,” Winfield says with grin. Often, if it was a dark roast, smoke filled the shop as well.
The current roasting site built in 2005, virtually overlaps the old shop. It has more space and the smoke is processed through an afterburner. While some aspects of Sisters Coffee have transformed over the years, the roastery, warehouse and coffee shop are still joined in the same building. (More photos below)
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Roaster | 2 Tons of Coffee Love
The Probat [pron' pro-bought] is a precision wonder, an industry leader and built for us in Germany. It allows us to custom roast on-site to our standards and for the shortest time and distance between a fresh roast and your first sip.
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Sisters Coffee's roaster is one of the Probat Roasters, commercial machine for roasting beans for dark, french, medium, light, espresso and other bean roast specialties. Enjoy our roast at home or work. |
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