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Here’s your August installment of our famous Asprological Sprudgoscopes! Aries (March 21-April 19) You’re a diverse bunch, Aries. Your famous brethren include such disparate figures as Pat Robertson, Akira Kurosawa, Leonard Nimoy and Aretha Franklin. Suffice it to say,…

We’ve written glowingly in the past about the Mypressi Twist, our 2009 Sprudgey Award winner for Best New Product. If you’ve been on the fence about ordering one of these doozies for your home, cafe, or fashionable cocktail lounge,…

Fresh roasted coffee needs more than a few minutes to rest before brewing. It doesn’t take a Director of Advancing Ingenuity and Developing Brilliance to tell you that. Entertaining video, beautiful device, terrible coffee. Best served for roasting Kopi Luwak, on your…

Jesse Vasquez Meet Jessie Vasquz, the man who took Dark Roast to a dark place. Police say on Sunday morning, Vasquez walked into Dallas Fire Station #752 and told one of the firefighters, “I just put poison in my mother’s…

On Saturday 31 July (that’s how they write it in Europe) from 11am-5pm, Tim Wendelboe’s cafe in Oslo will be serving cheap drinks and kakkes to benefit a project in Kenya: All drinks are a minimul 1 kr. maximum whatever you want…

Full immersion + filter + ice = Summer of Hoffmann! The idea with this is to brew double strength coffee straight onto ice. As the ice melts it chills and dilutes the coffee back to more normal strengths. Often…

Melissa Allison scored a coup with Kyle Glanville, Intelligentsia’s “Director of Innovation”, who spoke at liberty and denied any future plans for the Chicago industry titans to open up shop in Seattle.   “I think putting a coffee bar…

If you open up 16,000+ locations, this sort of thing is bound to happen: A 38-year-old man plunged to his death near a coffee shop in Manhattan yesterday, police said, after leaping from an upper East Side building just after 6 p.m.…

Scientists. They love talking about coffee. Every week it seems there’s more and more new stories on the web and in print, with some fresh scientific proclamation regarding caffeine or coffee compounds or why drinking more or less than…

In another “coffee is good for you” case study, researchers at Tufts University in Boston found coffee can “boost memory and the signaling essential to motor coordination.” The new data, presented July 20 at the Institute of Food Technologists…

Australia. The people who brought us Emily Oak, Scottie Callaghan, and the Flat White (not really) have made a coffee name for themselves yet again. A team of twelve Aussies just entered the Guiness Book of Records for largest…

This man’s reaction is entirely reasonable. And yes, for the record, we also can’t believe it took so long for us to think of  running this on…

The Hawaii Coffee Association’s 15th annual Coffee Conference has come and gone, and as the Nēnē feathers settle we’re happy to help spread the word: long-time Sprudge favorite R. Miguel Meza and his K’au Coffee Collective have done quite well for themselves at…

Trish Rothgeb is one of the most knowledgeable coffee professionals in the business. She’s worked a number of influential coffee companies, both large and small, earning respect and admiration from across the industry. She now roasts in both Vermont and…

From Seattle Times Coffee City writer Melissa Allison, on the front page of the Sunday Business section: “Talking to baristas, the word “passion” comes up a lot…[it's] a well-known trait about baristas — their love of talking about coffee,…

Watch out for the “slightly eggy nose” with this brew method: Norwegian Egg Coffee. Out of San Francisco’s Ritual Coffee Roasters. Just like Grandma’s sound…