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Terrifying. Impractical. Overtly sexual. These are just a few of the descriptors this video conjured up in the minds of your Sprudge.com editors. And yet…we can’t stop watching. Soon all products will ebb and flow, engorge and go flacid,…

From Space Cakes to Coffee Cakes, this just in: Stumptown Coffee Roasters is opening a pop-up cafe in Amsterdam. Could there possibly be enough marijuana in Amsterdam to satiate the pot-craved urges of Stumptown’s finest baristas? Will there be…

Recently I have read some posts from folks in the coffee industry that were not using the term “acidity” with consumers since the term sounds negative or problematic. Terms like ‘juicy’ or ‘lively’ were substituted instead. More coffee descriptors…

Click here to find out how a control engineer modified his Hario Buono Kettle to restrict flow. (SFW) Check out more of tompjagiello’s Flickr photos here. Thanks for the tip,…

Pittsburgh is a land of old people; Rich Westerfield knows this, and that’s why he’s delivered a guest spot on his blog from Mr. Andy Rooney, “60 Minutes” advocate for our griping American elderly. Journalism’s premier curmudgeon takes a…

Sprudge.com is proud to present our latest, greatest, newest innovation in coffee bloggery: The Happy Barista Star Fan Club! Which one will YOU choose? Vote at the bottom of the page! And be sure to tell your friends. Winners…

Tully’s CEO and Founder, Tom O’Keefe, has announced his impending retirement from the mid-major macro roaster he began in 1993. Tom O’Keefe says he’s retiring June 30 as chairman of Tully’s. He made the announcement Friday at a shareholders…

Eighteen coffee shops in Seoul, including some branches of The Coffee Bean and Hollys Coffee, were found to have violated food safety regulations, the Korea Food and Drug Administration said yesterday. Violations include using ingredients that have passed their…

You’d think I could dream about Venus or the Olsen twins or something. But I woke up two nights ago at 2a, having dreamt about the aeropress. I thought I had come up with a new way to brew…

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Former Nirvana skinsman Dave Grohl, also of the Foo Fighters (whose “Everlong” is one of the very best radio hits of the 1990s) has been hospitalized for caffeine-related health concerns! It seems that his rate of coffee consumption reached…

Ugh. Traditional beverage art, pouring milk into coffee to create designs, has never been about advertising, or capable of advertising, for that matter, as the most common designs are hearts and flowers. Pikalo’s printer prints hearts, flowers, faces, pictures,…

Guest Blogger Bonnie Green, Stay At Home Barista My favorite part of the day is warming up a South Beach Diet Pop Tart and brewing a pot of my favorite decaf roast. That’s because I know I have exactly…

Our friend Kyle Freund at Coffee Kids revives some of the still-on-going debate over Fair Trade. As coffee companies develop more sustainable models of trading coffee fairly, the Johnny-Don’t-Know Nothin’s and Melissa Allison’s of the world will continue to…

Your 2010 NERBC Winners Are: 1st Place: Danielle Glasky, Stumptown Coffee Roasters – New York, NY 2nd Place: Nik Krankl, Taste Coffee House – Newtonville, MA 3rd place: Jordan Barber, Cafe Grumpy – New York, NY And a sincere…

Well folks, it looks like a Harvard University professor finally got up off his doughy leftist butt and invented something I can really get behind. It’s a puff of caffeine delivered right down my gullet, no fuss, no muss.…