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There’s trouble today at the Gikanda Cooperative in Kenya, some of whose members are alleging the loss of millions of shillings over recent accounting discrepancies. Gikanda is among the most reputable and highly prized co-ops in Kenya, and products…

The best cafe in NYC? International Coffee gadabout and photoauteur Liz Clayton is doing some damn fine work over at Serious Eats New York. This is the second time we’ve featured Liz’s work at Serious Eats, and not the…

Jay Caragay’s Ono Coffee blog is, without a doubt, one of the very best stateside sites for coffee writing. It’s definitely worth checking out on a regular basis, but this recent recap of Jay’s trip to NYC is one…

Via BoingBoing Like something out of Brave New World, if Aldous Huxley were hopped up on Huhuetenango instead of…

James Hoffmann + Gwilym Davies ÷ perhaps a bit too much free time = this post over at JimSeven.com. We’re huge fans of the London coffee braintrust, but this one left us scratching our heads a bit: Some days…

For perhaps the first time, we’re speechless. Check out these photos from…

Our very first Sprudge Guzzler is now available online for your personal guzzlement. What do you get when you guzzle down sweets? Eating as much as an elephant eats? You need a coffee, then up on those feets! Go…

There’s a hot new specialty coffee application for iPhone, catering to those of you lucky enough to live and brew in NYC.  Oliver Strand and the NYT Scoop app have combined for a one stop, hand-held guide to the…

There’s a read worth your while up right now at CoffeeGeek, Mark Prince’s living, breathing, mountainous edifice to home brew, coffee culture, and 90s-style message boards. “A big, huge, gargantuan trend in barista circles is the latte art throwdown.…

It’s been a while since we checked in with Seattle Times coffee columnist Melissa Allison, but we’re happy to link today to her recent article and the strange history and spooky future of genetically modified coffee products. Frankensteined coffee…

It was an unfortunate pun come true on Thursday morning for the employees of Bellingham, Washington’s Brewed Awakening Coffee, who found themselves the victims of armed robbery by bicycle: No one was hurt in a possible armed robbery at…

Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee megacorp both defines and defiles the second wave, have proved to world yet again that they know how to walk the heartless tightrope: they’re branching out to bring themselves out of a decade-long slump while…

“Over the past couple of days something has developed that has me more than a little concerned. “Our specialty coffee machine (which makes the hot mochas, lattes and cappuccinos) has been working on and off for they past couple…

Terrible news today out of England’s third largest chain of supermarkets: An industrial coffee machine exploded in a busy Sainsbury’s cafe, showering staff and customers with scalding water and putting six people in the hospital. The blast — described…

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, voted #1 blog by wealthy yoga moms and financially stable bearded dads, has featured some fun stuff on coffee in the last decade. You have to be really, really cool to even think about reading McSweeney’s,…

The elegantly simple BrewMethods.com, you should really meet …”new coffees”. A deceptively low-key, remarkably exhaustive go-to-guide list for new coffees from top roasters. It has a decidedly USA bent (only Square Mile and Wendelboe are represented from outside the United States), and…