Sprudge.com

Welcome to Sprudge.com, your daily source of coffee news, rumor, innuendo and intrigue. Started in 2009 by longtime friends Zachary Carlsen and Jordan Michelman, Sprudge seeks to be an ever-expanding clearinghouse of international coffee culture, a crossroads for the coffee-minded, and a rumpus room for coffee professionals and enthusiasts this world over.

We want to be a part of your daily routine, your new favorite cafe conversation starter, something you can laugh about with your fellow baristas and erstwhile coffee comrades. We’re Sprudge.com – The World’s Most Trusted Coffee Tabloid.

The Sprudge.com Team

Zachary Carlsen has been a barista for more than a decade; his initial foray into the blogosphere, zacharyzachary.com, was the first website to live stream competitive barista events, a practice now commonplace. Mr. Carlsen has worked previously for murky coffee, 9th Street Espresso, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, and Four Barrel Coffee Roasters. A former resident of Seattle, Washington D.C. New York, and San Francisco, Zachary currently resides in Portland, Oregon. E-mail Zachary.

Jordan Michelman is a lifelong cafe dweller and (semi-) professional hack journalist, with contributions to Eater, The New York Times Magazine, and Serious Eats, among others. After many years in Seattle, Jordan currently resides in Portland, Oregon. E-mail Jordan.

Llewellyn Sinclair is responsible for all internal publishing duties at Sprudge.com and is widely thought to be the combined pseudonymous editorial voice of Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen. E-mail Llewellyn.

Sprudge Contributors

Alex Bernson
Julie Wolfson
Hanna Neuschwander
Erin Meister
Joanna Han
Liz Clayton

Editorial Board

Carl Mundy
Andrew Brewtbart

FAQ

What is “Sprudge”?

Sprudge is both neologism and parody.

“Sprudge” is a made-up word for the coffee crumbs, blotches and splats present on a barista’s clothing and shoes after a long shift on bar. We’ll use it in a sentence: “Listen, you finish dividing up the tips, I gotta go get this sprudge off my shoes before clocking off.”

Also, “Sprudge” is a portmanteau of the words “Espresso” and “Drudge”. In our early, funny days, Sprudge.com was a painfully exact visual parody of The Drudge Report circa 2009, right down to the omnipresent Hugo Chavez photo. Sprudge.com hired Llewellyn Sinclair (see #1) in January of 2010, abandoning the “Drudge” parody for a magazine-style format shortly thereafter.