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The Vermont Artisan/Coffee Lab in Waterbury, Vermont has been badly damaged by Tropical Storm Irene. Flooding and power outages have destroyed computers, equipment and coffee. Sprudge.com has as of yet been unable to reach the owners.…

Opening Night at the Spasskaya Tower Festival, and we’re briefly enjoying the calm before the storm. There’s some untold thousands of people outside the gates of Red Square, but here we are, lounging at the Soyuz Coffee Roasters outdoor…

Sprudge.com is live from Russia! Get ready for live coverage tonight from Red Square, where the opening night of the Spasskaya Tower Festival will feature dancing ponies, marching Generals, hordes of Muscovites, oversized decorative novelty coffee mugs, pistachios, swarthy…

The newest face in a long line of weird Twitter Marketing 101 YouTube wizards that review coffee and try to monetize the shit out of it. Alex has made over twenty videos, each with off-the-cuff analogies that don’t really…

Long in the works, Sprudge.com is proud to present our unofficial guide to coffee in Philadelphia! One of the most buzzed and blogged about coffee cities in the world, Philadelphia has emerged in recent years as a serious destination…

We were very lucky to get a sneak peek at Intelligentsia’s latest Black Cat limited blend with an animal moniker: Fruit Bat Espresso. Like previous Black Cat limited Blends, the choice of animal has had a lot to do…

Shocking news out of Gainesville, Florida. Anthony Rue, owner of Volta and friend of Sprudge, was hog-tied, pistol whipped and robbed in his home. At around 4PM EST, Anthony updated his Twitter feed, “Don’t try to call me. Phone…

Well, it happened again – last weekend unleashed the Nordic Barista Cup on the world, bringing together some of the finest people in coffee for three days of non-stop action. There were lectures, cuppings, throwdowns, tastings, teasings, tickle-fights and…

Congratulations to Morgan Allen, of Fernwood Coffee in Victoria, BC, winner of the 2011 Western Canadian Regional Barista Competition. Mr. Allen follows in the footsteps of last year’s Western Regional winner Rob Kettner, also of Fernwood Coffee, who went…

Sprudge.com has the inside post-storm scoop from various NYC coffee sources: *A lot of stuff is closed – this includes cafes in Brooklyn (Gimme!, Blue Bottle, etc) and cafes in Manhattan (Third Rail, Vandaag, etc). This means everyone got…

The most recent post on the Starbucks Gossip blog caught our eyes here at the Sprudge Global Network: “People who become good Starbucks managers work waaaay more than 45 hours a week, especially in Seattle” The post goes on to…

Ugh. The QuickMemes dares to take on “the hipster” in a cookie-cutter LOLCat-monetize-the-shit-outta-it fashion. When will making fun of MemeBlogs be the next meme? That’s Dustin Mattson of Octane Coffee in Atlanta. Eater.com sez: Mattson finished 5th place at…

NBC 2011 Talks – Stephen Vick: Preserving Green Coffee. The NBC brings over 170 people together for a three-day rapid-fire cupping / lecture / tasting / lecture / lunch / lecture / cupping / lecture program all while Scandinavian teams are…

It’s that time of year again: we’re seeing seasonal roasters offer a slew of new crop Kenyan and Ethiopian coffees. In a few months we’ll start seeing new arrivals from Rwanda and Burundi, and then Tanzania and Uganda. While…

Live from Tacoma, Washington, the second installation of PNW TNT is tonight at Metronome (3518 6th Avenue). Sponsored by Dillanos, Sunshine Dairy and Espresso Parts, the format for tonight’s event is a secret, but your chance for glory is…

Running today via the NYT Online, some ace L.A. coffee coverage from the world’s coffee chronicler of note, Oliver Strand. Featuring Spring For Coffee (serving Ritual, Intelli, Stumptown and Blue Bottle), Bru Coffee Bar (serving Ritual), Coffee Commissary (serving…