Maybe you spent the last week lounging on the beaches of some remote island off the coast of Washington, or maybe you just had a job and kids and a real life that kept you busy. Whatever the case may be, hereโs all the coffee news you missed in the last 7 days โall in one spot. Itโs like a fun-sized candy bar, only itโs not a candy barโitโs just words.
Your World Barista Championship Finals In Words and Pictures: After being narrowed down from a field of 51 competitors, we saw 6 WBC Finalists on the biggest stage blow us away. Weโve got exclusive photos and in depth essays on each of the competitors and their routines. You donโt wanna miss this oneโhere it is!
We released exclusive WBC videos that you didnโt get to see! We made a whole heap of new videos at this yearโs World Barista Championship โ some for the competitors, and some for the commercials that aired between routines. Watch them all back-to-back, Netflix style right here on YouTube, where you can find more than 100 (!) other Sprudge Videos.
Liz Clayton took a look the Very Best Coffee At Grand Central Terminal in NYC. With more than 21 million annual visitors, the iconic Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan is one of New York Cityโs loveliest โ and busiest โ public spaces. Ms. Clayton proves that Grand Central isnโt just a place to hop on and off trainsโitโs also home to a dizzying array of specialty coffee options, delicious espressos, bright and lovely filter coffees, and every imaginable brewing doodad are available to purchase. All aboard, amirite?!
Our dedicated New York City staff writer Alex Bernson (@AlexBernson) teamed up with legendary photographer Ben Spell (@BenSpell) โ to bring us these drool-inducing shots of Intelligentsiaโs brand new bar in Chelsea, NYC andย 17 Excellent Geeky Details At The New Intelligentsia NYC Cafe. If youโve been brainwashed by twitter and can no longer read more than 140 characters at a time like me, this is a really easy readโitโs basically like scrolling through your twitter feed.
Glanville & Babinskiโs opened their new cafe at Grand Central Market (GCM) in LA, and Julie Wolfson has the latest scoop. She sat down with both the G and the B in G&B to talk everything from the long bar to the menu to some of the exciting new โspirits-inspiredโ espresso drinks theyโll be offering. G&B + GCM 4EVER.
DCILY reported that Koppi, the feisty Helsingborg outfit, has opened a pop up shop In Stockholm adjacent to raw denim purveyors Denim Demon. The DCILY feature has gorgeous photos and loads more info on the shop. WIC rejoice!
Harald Johnsen Vรธyleย and his sister, Ingri M. Johnsen,ย armed themselves with a notebook and a camera, then went on a whirlwind dazzle-tour of the MICE merry-go-round. They took a look at the brand new Slayer One Group Espresso Machine and broke down some of the new featuresโweโve got seven words for you: digital touch interface with fingertip swipe technology.
Steve Albini of the AV Club (and founder of the band Shellac) endorsed Kopi Luwak on a recent feature so we took a second to shred-ucate him on the ATROCITIES OF CIVET ABUSE and recommend a few local Chicago cafes with better coffee that he could visit. Take THAT, weasel poop coffee.
We woke up the next day to a really thoughtful email from Steve Albini about weasel poop coffee in our inbox.
It was a big week for specialty coffee in the mainstream media for a lot of differentโVERY differentโreasons. Hereโs a really quick rundown of whatโs been floating around out there:
Seattle Weekly published a piece on the rebirth of Seattle Coffee, highlighting Milstead & Co and the folks at Slate Coffee.
Reuters took some time to distill the rising popularity in the growing craft coffee industry โ and they do it quite nicely.
The second season of the Sprudgie Award Winning Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee is returning June 13!
Toddlers In Tiaras has a new breakout star, Alexa, the two-year-old coffee drinker. We asked our readers to sound-off about T&T, toddlers and coffee, and feeding children hot dog buns for breakfast (and boy howdy, did they ever) – including a comment from Alexa’s mother, Tori:
Thanks for writing in, Tori! Until next week!
