About
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 . A former resident of Seattle, Washington D.C. and New York, Zachary currently resides in San Francisco, where he works as a barista and visual artist. He is happily married.
Jordan Michelman is a lifelong cafe dweller and lover of the painted word. When not writing for Sprudge.com, Jordan contributes to publications far more vaunted than this one, covering food, cocktails, beer, and pretty much anything else you can put in your mouth. After many years in Seattle, Jordan currently resides in Portland, OR. He lives alone with his tabby cat.
Sprudge.com Contributors
Carl Mundy, Manager at the Waterbed Warehouse, Twin Falls, Idaho
Bonnie Greene, Stay At Home Barista
Greggory Hüllzengbløgger, Norwegian Coffee Articulate
Randal H. Bodom, Party Correspondent And HunkShot™ Curator
Cody Bonko, Street Latte Artist and Style Consultant
FAQ
1. Who is Llewellyn Sinclair?
Llewellyn Sinclair is widely thought to be the combined pseudonymous editorial voice of Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen. Originally listed as “Sprudge Editors”, Mr. Sinclair is now responsible for all internal publishing duties at Sprudge.com.
2. What is “Sprudge”, anyway?
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.
