Origin
“It Will Get Much Worse” In Latin America
Heavy rains and widespread flooding reported in Latin America.
Kona Coffee Farm Owner Pays Back Wages
Farm owner gets busted by the Dept of Labor in Hawaii.
WikiLeaks Cable Demonstrates Starbucks’ Pull
This WikiLeaks Cable is steamy, scandalous and salacious...just like Howie Schultz!
HuffPo’s Fazenda Fantasia
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…
Cat and Laos: The Sands of TIME
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…
Two Cuppings, One Schmuck [Part One]: Guatemala Finca Nueva Armenia
Sprudge.com attended two top-notch public cuppings in the last few days, led by Peter Giuliano and Aida Batlle, respectively. Both events took place at the Counter Culture Coffee Training Center in Manhattan. Our first feature focuses on the Finca…
The Micromill Revolution Will Not Be Televised
This just arrived in our inbox from our friends at Exclusive Coffee, Costa Rica’s premiere coffee exporter and fan of Sprudge.com. Their distinctive “Golden Coin” ad has been proudly displayed on our sidebar for the last year, and as…
Tom of Sweet Maria’s Responds To Video Comments
Tom Owens recently parodied the growing trend the Extreme Green Buyer Videos, the sort that are shot at origin with flip video camera and promote the buyer’s own personal bodaciousness. In the following article, posted via the Sweet Maria’s…
MONOARABICA! The Secrets Of The illy Blend… Revealed!
GASP! Our Italian intern Rocco just tipped us off to a juicy story. Turns out that Italian pre-grind kings illy (they of the eternal lowercase) have been dipping their toes into the single-origin market, publicly offering the three unblended…
Found On Flickr: Tom Questions “Three Regions”
Actually, I found “Four Continent” coffee, Five, and even Six too. I think this burning topic needs to be addressed at next years SCAA Symposium. Whats a region? Whats a continent? Hell, Whats a Micro-region? How many regions are…





