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This article is part of our special Back To School Week series: Portland Monthly, a glossy niche mag beloved by I-26 Silicon Forest types, have put together a nice little piece on 5 PDX roasters not named Stumptown. Locally,…

This picture was recently posted on Hacienda La Esmeralda’s Facebook Wall. It’s beautiful and mysterious. The man responsible for posting the image, Steven Sung-Yong Kil, hasn’t responded to our requests for more information and doesn’t want to be our…

Chicago-based Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea is at it again with clever marketing ploys involving music industry giants. This time it’s alt-Dad popsters Wilco, who’ve co-decided to co-design a co-branded mug with Zell and Co. Rumor has it this mug…

Awesome! Our friends at TampTamp Incorporated just released this Craigslist Announcement calling for baristas to staff a new café at LaGuardia Airport. We’ve heard rumors about the program and it sounds like it’s going to be caps lock AMAZING.…

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has built a reputation as an eco-friendly company since it was founded nearly 30 years ago.It started composting used coffee grounds in 1983, helped develop an eco-friendly paper cup in 2006 and last year installed…

Melissa Allison scored a coup with Kyle Glanville, Intelligentsia’s “Director of Innovation”, who spoke at liberty and denied any future plans for the Chicago industry titans to open up shop in Seattle.   “I think putting a coffee bar…

We’re always excited about developments from one of our favorite roasters from back East, Counter Culture Coffee. According to our friends at Philadelphia’s fabulous Ultimo Coffee: Counter Culture Coffee has been quietly revealing a new and un-named espresso over…

A Sprudge.com Special Report From Carrie Bradstrada “As we drive along this road called life, occasionally an espresso machine will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda,…

Extra salt, please. A coffee company from Taiwan hopes to teach Americans to love squid-ink buns and iced sea salt lattes. Stores in the 85C chain also sell cheap, and unusual, pastries. Just as Starbucks brought venti triple lattes…

 MSN Head Blogger Karen Datko: Why spend $40 on a bottle of wine if your palate can’t pick up the flavors anyhow? Why spend $12 on a sixer of some namby-pamby microbrew when you can get some icy cold…

Only in Seattle New information released by Mint.com on coffee-buying trends reveals that on average Seattleites spent $36 a month at their favorite coffee shops, topping out the list of caffeine-addicted cities. San Jose, Calif. and Portland trailed just…

ShotZombies.com has reported on today’s historic Best of Panama auction: Holy crap! WATARU & CO., lTD. and Saza Coffee just went at it for the number one lot in the Best of Panama auction. Don’t feel bad for Wataru though, they…

Nestle Ireland is recalling instant coffee products believed to contain tiny pieces of glass. Whole bean sales on the rise… NESTLE has recalled some of its instant coffee products after they were deemed a danger to consumers. Coffee drinkers…

Fonté Coffee Roasters, a Seattle-based wholesale and retail outfit focusing on boutique hotels and restaurants, is currently featuring the much-hyped Ethiopian Nekisse at its downtown Seattle flagship store. Available as a single origin espresso or siphon, Nekisse will be…

From Market Watch: Today, Starbucks Coffee Company announced its latest innovation in packaged coffee– Starbucks(R) Natural Fusions, the industry’s first and only nationally-branded naturally-flavored premium coffee made with real ingredients, such as vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg, ground and blended…

Seattle’s Best Coffee, the Starbucks-owned “underbrand” with perhaps the most unfortunate name in all of coffee, recently unveiled a new corporate logo: The response has been negative and swift. Really a lousy logo. Beyond generic. An insult to the…