Introducing the new big thing at Coffee Culture! Try out our new cool, refreshing & fruity energy infusion drink! Sometimes your afternoon needs a booster, and this is just what you need! They come in three fruity flavors, or you can customize it to your own favorite flavor! Perfection on a balmy spring day.
Do your mornings feel tired and blue? Do you dread the dawn of day? Turn that shuzzah around! Mornings can be magical! Come in to any of our four locations and be delighted with these delicious morning boosters! Our Lattes, Mochas, Cappuccinos and Brewed Coffee are all finely crafted by our skilled baristas, made with our very own home-roasted beans!
You may also be delighted to find out that we are now serving our very own croissants! Along with original classic croissants we now have Nutella, ham & cheese, and strawberry & cream cheese! Mmm… flaky and light, the perfect pairing with perfect coffee.
See you at coffee break!
…..And while your procrastinating at work, check out this awesome article from the Gazette Times about us and our new location downtown! We kind of feel like superstars. 
Downtown Corvallis. Home of so many amazing destinations like Block 15, Flat Tail, Sky High Brewing.. oh wait, are we just naming all the breweries?? Well you get the idea. SO many awesome places. Everyone loves it. And now we get to be a part of it!!! We are so excited… and we’re RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM BLOCK 15!! Did we shout? Sorry. Excitement. It’s kind of like Christmas.
Our newest little shop is literally quite little- all about making coffee taste awesome, serving some fresh in-house baked pastries (all made fresh daily at our 9th Street Annex), and room for you to walk in and maybe sit at the window. Small, but lovely. We think it’s great and we think you’ll love it too! So come down and check it out! If you’ve signed up for our Coffee Culture Club you can even get a dollar off your drink! Now THAT’S happiness.
You’ll find us on the corner of 4th & Jefferson, we’re right between The Book Bin and Block 15, making our corner of downtown the ultimate trifecta of awesomeness.
To receive awesome deals & discounts sent right to your phone, check out our Coffee Culture Club! You’ll get an instant $1 off your drink when you sign up! Sa-weeeet!
This Saturday April 13, we have been invited to the grand opening of Sports Authority on Circle Blvd. in Corvallis and will be giving away free coffee! We understand this is probably your dream-come-true and you’re pinching yourself right now to make sure it’s real… and I assure you, it is. This will be a very exciting event and starting at 7:30am, we will be giving away our delicious home-roasted House Brewed coffee and mouthgasmic iced Toddys. If you have not tried our iced toddy…. well. This is your lucky day. Prepare to be absolutely delighted. See you there!
One of our favorite things about our community here in Corvallis is how much we love our local businesses. The Daily Barometer does a yearly ‘Best of Corvallis’ contest and everyone votes for their favorites in each category. The great thing about this one is you’re not confined to the choices they’ve provided- you can write in your own! So go ahead and take a few minutes to put in YOUR two cents about your town. Don’t forget to vote for us! Vote HERE.
What’s happening at The Culture? Since we started roasting our own coffee we get a lot of burlap coffee sacks. Stacks and stacks and stacks of sacks. Originally we thought we could just give them away- lots of people use cool-looking coffee sacks for all kinds of things.
Then someone on our team of ultra-intelligent people came up with this crazy idea- why not try and make those bags into recycled Market Bags? So this gal gave it a go and hey- they are pretty flippin rad! So look for them in our shops- hopefully we will be getting more as she can bust them out of her little three-woman-sweatshop.
Maybe you can be seen carrying your groceries/library books/etc. in one of these super trendy amazingly awesome recycled coffee sacks! See ya soon!
Do you wish your coffee at home tasted better? Do you wonder why the same coffee that tastes so perfectly delicious at the coffee shop tastes so much less delicious at home? Well, allow us to give you some inside tips to making your home-brewed coffee taste better! So, without further ado…
A Handful Of Tips For Making Your Home-Brewed Coffee Taste Better:
1. Never store beans (whole or ground) in your refrigerator.
Yuck. This is bad. Very, very, bad. A faux pas that we have discovered so many loved ones committing, this dries out your beans, making them stale and tasteless. The best way to store your fresh coffee is in an airtight container on your counter or in your cupboard. (somewhere cool and dry)
2. Use filtered water.
Bad tasting water makes bad tasting coffee. If you are using a drip pot, avoid using the pot to fill the water reservoir. The oils and impurities from the pot will give the coffee a bad taste. Use a fresh pitcher. Note: do not use distilled water, your water should have mineral content to avoid sharp and bitter tastes.
3. Pre-rinse your paper filter.
Using boiling water, rinse your filter before you brew coffee in it. You will notice as the water runs through, paper sediments will turn the water yellowish. You don’t want those particles in your coffee.
4. Get an even grind!
Even grind is crucial. What you are using to grind your coffee is perhaps, next to the actual quality of beans you’re using, the most important aspect of your coffee-making-and-tasting experience. A burr grinder will give you an even grind, every time, which is ideal for any way that you’re brewing your coffee.
5. Water temperature should be between 195-200.
You don’t want to scald your coffee grounds; ideal water temp provides maximum flavor extraction.
6. Don’t let your coffee sit.
Coffee is only fresh for about ten minutes. Try to brew the right amount of coffee that you are going to drink in one sitting. Practice the art of freshly brewed coffee-by-the-cup! It will probably make you so happy.
7. Clean your equipment!
Old sediments in y0ur brewer can make your coffee taste rancid. RANCID. Yuck. If you can smell an odor from your brewing equipment, clean it! If you cannot remember the last time you cleaned your brewing equipment, clean it!
There are many, many factors to extracting the perfect coffee, but we thought we’d keep it (mostly) simple for you, and if you are interested in being a total coffee geek, well just talk to one of our own coffee geeks at the Roastery and we will be happy to educate you!
The holidays are not overlooked here at Coffee Culture. Every year Paul and Lisa host a maaaahvelous Christmas party for their beloved employees- and each year it gets bigger and badder! It began at their home, back when there were just a few folks from the Timberhill drive-thru. Now it’s a grand and glorious affair filled with squeals and laughter — and Bunco– at the Kings Blvd. location.
Here’s a small peek into the party!
We hope each of you had a delightful holiday season! We certainly did! If you’re interested in hosting your own private party at our Roastery, you can contact us at 541-753-3030.
A while back, a customer of ours recommended this poem to us, which of course we love. So today we share it with you, because a rainy Wednesday needs a good warm poem (or whatever day it is that you are reading this on). Thanks, Sabrina, for sharing!
“To The Coffee House”
by Viennese poet Peter Altenberg
When you are worried, have trouble of one sort or another -to the coffee house!
When she did not keep her appointment, for one reason or another – to the coffee house!
When your shoes are torn and dilapidated – coffee house!
When your income is four hundred crowns and you spend five hundred – coffee house!
You are a chair warmer in the office, while your ambition led you to to seek professional honors – coffee house!
You could not not find a mate to suit you- coffee house!
You feel like committing suicide – coffee house!
You hate and despise human beings, and at the same time you cannot be happy without them – coffee house!
You compose a poem which you can not inflict upon friends that you meet in the street – coffee house!
When your coal scuttle is empty, and your gas ration exhausted – coffee house!
When you are locked out and haven’t the money to pay for unlocking the house door – coffee house!
When you acquire a new flame, and intend provoking the old one, you take the new one to the old one’s – coffee house!
When you feel like hiding, you dive into a – coffee house!
When you want to be seen in a new suit – coffee house!
When you can not get anything on trust anywhere else – coffee house!
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Well? What are you waiting for! To the coffee house!!
