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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…

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…

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…

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 Owen 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…

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…

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…

BREAKING: We’ve received a reliable tip this morning that a reputable Ethiopian-based “producer and developer of coffees of specific variety, locality and process” had an entire container – worth over $350,000 – of coffee stolen whilst in transit in…

It’s that time again: Counter Culture Coffee have released their Transparency Report, clearly laying out all their specs at origin, including prices paid, the last time the producer was visited and the length of the relationship between CCC and the…

Bleak. Weak. Whatta way to start the week. That fair-trade cup of coffee we savour may not only fail to ease the lot of poor farmers, it may actually help to impoverish them, according to a study out recently…