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Some cryptic news today out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the Corlett / Knapp braintrust are preparing to announce the location of the long-awaited second MadCap Coffee space. Possible locations hinted at in their intertitle heavy video announcement include Houston, Dallas,…

Stumptown Coffee Roasters have launched a quarterly newsletter with information on upcoming coffees, source trips and company news. Print copies are available at all Stumptown locations. Read about Stumptown’s recent work in Rwanda and about producers in Central America…

Hollywood hunk Hugh Jackman has announced via YouTube the launch of a brand new New York based coffee company called Laughing Man Coffee. Check out the video:…

It’s relatively rare for reports from origin to appear in the mainstream media, or even its AOL TimeWarner Murdoch Media owned blogosphere. But in a feature that appeared yesterday on The Huffington Post, Michelle Won is bucking the trend, visiting…

Sprudge.com recently attended the Soyuz Coffee Roasting pop-up cafe in Red Square, staffed by 7 National Champion baristas from around the world. We’re profiling each of the champions, with just two more left to go. Today’s champ is Javier Garcia,…

Upper middle class clothiers Nordstrom is set to start carrying three designer Starbucks t-shirts with an $85 dollar price tag. Typically, a large multinational company might team up with creatives to do a collaborative charitable effort. Not this time! Their cause is FASHION.…

Like so many with ties to the Seattle coffee community, we were devastated by last week’s passing of Brian Fairbrother, longtime employee and invaluable contributor to the Vivace Espresso legacy. (Photo courtesy of this beautiful photoslide via The Seattle Times)…

Sprudge.com recently attended the Soyuz Coffee Roasters pop-up cafe in Red Square, staffed by 7 National Champion baristas from around the world. We’re profiling each of the champions, and today we’re featuring Monika Palova, Barista Champion of Slovakia. The…

Once a classroom terror, now a Mom Blog icon, meet little Rowan Haskell, the boy whose mother treats his ADHD by dosing him up with milky coffee. Rowan gets his caffeine fix once in the morning and once in the afternoon, with…

We’re not exactly sure how we got our hands on a second-hand stained copy of “Coffeeshop Crushes“, the 2001 Portland-based ‘zine conceived inside the original Stumptown. But it’s been fun to read ten years after its first printing. Featuring…

A fascinating little coffee business feature ran earlier this week in the New York Times, under their ”About New York” heading and with a byline by Jim Dwyer. The story ran in the “N.Y. / Region” section of the paper, and it begins… One day…

Various barbs and salvos are flying today across the coffee social media nexus-lexus, regarding the feature on specialty coffee appearing in this morning’s New York Post (and archived for all eternity here, or at least until the next phone…

Sprudge.com recently attended the Soyuz Coffee Roasters pop-up cafe in Red Square, staffed by 7 National Champion baristas from around the world. We’re profiling each of the champions, and today we’re featuring Pete Licata, Barista Champion of the USA.…

We here at Sprudge are delighted to be featured in the summer issue of Café at Home, South Korea’s leading ”Coffee Life Style Magazine”. We were mentioned in a big feature by Kyonghee Shin (known amongst Twitterers as @beanwife), highlighting…

Just begun over on the Serious Drinks blog (a division of Serious Eats, obviously, but with better writers), an ongoing series on coffee history written by Sprudge fave and Counter Culture Coffee mensch Erin Meister. Round one starts with Ethiopia,…

A tale of two stories from Time.com… First up, a fascinating piece on coffee cultivation in Laos. French colonialists were pushed out of coffee growing regions in Laos during World War 2, and land wars in the decades after…