THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

We’re thrilled to announce that for the 4th year in a row, thump has won the “Best Coffee” award and honorable mention for “Best Place for Tea” in The Source Weekly’s, 2011 Best of Central Oregon Reader’s Poll!  Thank you for your vote and for your love of thump! It warms our hearts.

EVENTS & HOURS

Fri. 9/2, OPEN LATE: First Friday Art Walk & Master’s Road Cycling National Championship Downtown Criterium
We’ll be open late to watch the US Master’s Road Cycling National Championship competitors lap downtown – from 8am-8pm! For First Friday Art Walk, we will feature the mixed media work of artist, designer and activist Euijin Gray. Her show — entitled “being. small. simple. green.” — is inspired by months spent in the green, wet forest of Tennessee and incorporates acrylics, photos, drawings, handmade paper, wood, canvas and board.

Sun. 9/18, 1:30-2:30pm: Monthly Public Coffee Tasting
Our Public Coffee Tasting is back from summer vacation! This fun, informal exploration of coffees from around the world, uses the tasting and evaluation techniques of professional coffee cuppers. Bring a friend and join us!

Traditional Cappuccino Happy Hour, Every Friday 2:30-5:30pm
If you’ve never tried a traditional espresso drink – a doppio, macchiato or cappuccino – make sure to join us on Friday afternoons when we offer them for 50% off! It’s a great way to cap the week and roll into your Friday evening.

Seasonal Eats
Keylime, 72% Dark, Milk, Fleur de Sel and Hairbender Mocha Truffles
Apricot Bars
Gluten Free Brownies
Classic Banana Bread
Assorted Panini Sandwiches

Seasonal Drinks
Featured Cup: Ethiopia Mordecofe Organic, Direct Trade
Toddy Cold Brewed Coffee
Salted Caramelita Latte
Peach Tea Smoothie
Mint Grasshopper Frappe
Wildberry Mocha Frappe
Coco Cabana Frappe
Organic/Fair Trade Loose Leaf  Teas
Hot Lips Sodas

Find Your Wish on Flickr
The wooden planks swaying from thump’s ceiling capturing brief wishes from passersby, are as much of what makes thump, thump as any delicious drinks we serve. Have you ever wondered what happens to those wishes or how many have been created? Well, local artist and “Wishes” installation creator Mark Bernahl rotates the wishes every couple of months, adding new ones, removing old ones. He has kept every single wish that has been rotated out since the “Wishes” inception more than four years ago! And, he has scanned them! You can view more than 5,000 of them here. If you wrote a wish sometime in the last four years, go to our Flickr site and see if you can find it. Over 5,000 and counting are on the site! And . . . let us know if your wish came true!

ART: Ongoing “Sharing The Road” Poster Series Display
The “Sharing the Road” poster series depicts what drivers and cyclists can do to avoid accidents. A $5000 grant was awarded to the Bend Metropolitan Planning Organization to inform cyclists and drivers and help prevent crashes on our roads. City of Bend, citizens, advocates and employees worked as a group to get bike riders asking: “Am I doing this right?” and “Is this safe?” and “What are the rules?” The Posters  to Coasters campaign, designed by Carrrrrlos, does that in a visually striking way.  The campaign consists of posters, coasters and video. The prominent concerns with riding a bike in Bend are wrong way riding, drunk riding and night riding without lights. These actions cause the most cycling injuries and fatalities nationwide.

Thump Brewing Equipment, Travel Mugs & T-Shirts
We’re fully stocked with new t-shirts and thump porcelain travel mugs, as well as grinders, coffee/tea presses – check out the display at the front of the shop.

If you Like us here, then Like us on Facebook!
Please check out thump’s Facebook page and join the conversation! We, and our customers, post pictures and comments on café life at thump throughout the week. Go to the thump coffee Facebook page and click the Like button!