Steel Bridge Coffee in the News

http://www.willamettelive.com/2015/news/2015-mid-valley-green-awards-nominees-inspire/

Joseph Penner provides Salem and Keizer with primarily certified fair trade and organic coffee beans, home-roasted by solar power and bicycle- delivered the same day.

Steel Bridge Coffee started in November 2011, “on a very small scale,” after Penner had been roasting on his own for about a year, “partly for the novelty and partly because it was the best way to get myself great coffee.”

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http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2014/06/11/bicycle-powers-salem-coffee-roaster/10282829/

The economy was down and Joseph Penner couldn't find a job. So he combined his two loves – coffee and bicycling – and started a business.

Now, Penner delivers his freshly roasted coffee beans throughout Salem and Keizer by bicycle, and has begun selling at the Salem Saturday Market as well.

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http://salemis.org/2013/06/have-coffee-will-travel/

Walk around Joseph Penner’s living room and you can pick up clues hinting at the business he runs out of his 1940 home in West Salem’s Edgewater neighborhood.

A small votive candle rests in a mason jar full of coffee beans on the windowsill, and a map of Oregon with a long, winding path traced in blue marker hangs on the wall.

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