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We want to take time out this weekend to express our love and gratitude for the entire coffee community. We all have varying opinions on a wide variety of topics and our opinions and beliefs should be respected and…

Aaron Blanco of Brown Coffee Company removed the apology from his website yesterday and posted this on his company blog today: For a while Tuesday I considered closing the cafe for a day or a week to let this…

Actually, I found “Four Continent” coffee, Five, and even Six too. I think this burning topic needs to be addressed at next years SCAA Symposium. Whats a region? Whats a continent? Hell, Whats a Micro-region? How many regions are…

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It’s still early, but so far this is our favorite coffee lawsuit of 2011: A St. Clair County woman claims the manufacturer of K-cups for her Keurig coffee maker misled her into believing the cartridges contained coffee that could…

Doug Zell spotted these bottles in a grocery store. What are they? International Delight’s Coffee House inspired bottled beverages. Finally! Latte art in a bottle! Real coffee house flavor at home! Sigh… Make mine a double…

What is it? Our worst nightmare. An espresso machine exploding, courtesy of Espresso Made In Italy, a massive Italian database of espresso machines and historical images. What’s it for? A class held by Terry Z and Sarah Dooley at…

Earlier today we sent out an email to owner Aaron Blanco and published it here on Sprudge.com. A few moments ago, Aaron Blanco responded on The Brown Coffee Company’s official website: We at the Brown Coffee Company would like…

BREAKING: We’ve received a reliable tip this morning that a reputable Ethiopian-based “producer and developer of coffees of specific variety, locality and process” had an entire container – worth over $350,000 – of coffee stolen whilst in transit in…

This just in from Brown Coffee Company’s blog: Recently, a Twitter post that was made via our company’s Twitter account has exploded into something it was never meant to be and we want to correct the record. In the…

The scene: The final moments of the World Cup Tasters Championship. Alf Kramer delivers an involuntary and unstoppable gigglefest. Congratulations to all the tasters. Such epic Livestream action.…

June 24th, 2011: New York becomes the 6th state in the USA to allow same-sex couples the right to marry. At 11:55PM, Brown Coffee Company, a San Antonio-based coffee roaster with accounts across North America, posts this message to Twitter. RBC…

This came out back in March, but we’re just now getting the word on this coffee from Solberg & Hansen out of Norway: Inspired by the True Norwegian Black Metal culture and the expression “Black Coffee” Solberg & Hansen…

The staff at Sprudge.com Hayes Valley HQ is beyond enamored with the Handsome Coffee Roaster coffees that keep showing up to our door. It’s like Christmas on our doorstep, but with Mike Phillips instead of Santa. The green coffee…

Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea has historically taken part in the annual pride events in Chicago. Today they provided iced coffee as they marched down the parade. This year they launched a beautiful t-shirt to celebrate LGBT equality. Stephen Vick…

Here’s a fun regional blog worth your eyes today – “It’s A Great Day For Coffee”, a classy, unpretentious cafe guide for all things coffee in the Twin Cities. We’ve yet to take a coffee tour of Minneapolis and…