Welcome to the announcements for the 16th Annual Sprudgie Awards presented by Pacific Barista Series, honoring the very best in coffee.
Nominees for each category were chosen by a worldwide public ballot. Public voting for the Sprudgies took place over a multi-week period, including open nominations and finalist ballots.
Congratulations to all the nominees—to us, every single finalist was a winner.
Here are the winners, honorees, and finalists for the 16th Annual Sprudgie Awards, presented by Pacific Barista Series.
Notable Roaster
This award honors a coffee roasting company doing exemplary work in 2024. This may include roasted coffee quality, the strength of e-commerce, cafe locations (if applicable), and all other facets of running a successful coffee roasting company.
Winner: September Coffee (Ottawa, CA)
Honoree: DAK Coffee (Amsterdam, NL)
Finalists:
Coffee Relief (Quito, Ecuador)
Slick Coffee (Muscat, Oman)
Dayglow Coffee (Los Angeles, USA)
Little Waves Coffee (Durham, NC)
Scenery Coffee (London, UK)
People Possession (Paris, France)
Notable Coffee Producer
This award honors outstanding work by a coffee producer.
Winner: Basha Bekele (Ethiopia)
Honoree: Diego Bermudez (Colombia)
Finalists:
Astrid Medina (Colombia)
Maricela Esperón (Mexico)
Luis Alberto Balladarez (Nicaragua)
Tamiru Tadesse (Ethiopia)
Wilder Lazo (Colombia)
Abel Salinas (Ecuador)
Best New Product
This award honors a new coffee product released for sale to the public in the year 2024.
Winner: La Marzocco Swan Grinder
Honoree: UFO Dripper (V2)
Finalists:
AeroPress Go Plus Travel Coffee System
xBloom Studio
Sibarist Dual Chamber Paper Filter
Timemore Black Mirror Basic 2
Empirical Water
Nucleus NCD Pulse
Best Coffee Video/Film
This award honors an original coffee video or film released in the year 2024.
Winner: COFFEE The Universal Language — Episode 2 (Los Angeles)
Honoree: Eric Espiritu for Chef’s Table and Dayglow Coffee — “Autumn In LA”
Finalists:
Coffee Breath — “The One In Chicago”
Aramse — “Learn To Pour And Never Look At Your Kettle The Same”
European Coffee Trip — “Boram Um: Becoming The World Barista Champion”
Kate Foster & John Hesselbarth for New Harvest Coffee — “Los Portillos”
Anaiis Cisco — Drip Like Coffee
Enrico Ventrice for Academia del Caffè Espresso —“The Rise of Espresso”
Best Coffee Writing
This award celebrates the best coffee writing of the year.
Winner: Morgan Eckroth — “I’m not a coffee snob but” — appearing on Coffee For Here
Honoree: Christopher Feran — “Agents, ‘Middlemen’, And How The Work Is Actually Done” — appearing on ChristopherFeran.com
Finalists:
Peter Giuliano — “Is Taste Nature or Nurture” — appearing on Pax Culinaria
Lukasz Galecki — “Barista Stories” — appearing on European Coffee Trip (collected)
Sabine Parish — “Celesty Paytxayeb Suruí” — appearing in Standart Issue 37
Nick Mabey — “How High Prices Are Exposing The Hollow Promises of Specialty Coffee” — appearing on Assembly Coffee
Owen Racer —“His coffee is coveted around the world. His doesn’t know if his future is on the farm” — appearing in The Guardian
Laudia Anokye-Bempah, Irwin R. Donis-Gonzalez, and William D. Ristenpart — “What Color Is Your Coffee?” — appearing in 25 Magazine Issue 22
Best Coffee Book/Magazine
This award honors an outstanding coffee magazine or print publication release.
Winner: Coffee People Zine
Honoree: SOLO Magazine
Finalists:
Softer Volumes: Cafes
The Art Of Espresso Brewing by Søren Stiller Markussen
Drift
Dial In Magazine
Standart
Barista Magazine
Best Social Media
This award honors outstanding work across social media platforms.
Winner: James Hoffmann — @JimSeven
Honoree: Morgan Eckroth — @MorganDrinksCoffee
Finalists:
Lance Hedrick — @LanceHedrick
Brian Quan — @brian.quan_
Jimmy Johnson — @jimmythebarista
Laila Ghambari — @lailaghambari
Bartholomew Jones — @cxffeeblack
Emilee Bryant — @emstagrim
Best Coffee Podcast
This award honors outstanding work in the podcast medium.
Winner: Tim Wendelboe’s Podcast
Honoree: Coffee Knowledge Hub
Finalists:
It’s Just Coffee
Pikola
Buy The Drip
Making Coffee with Lucia Solis
Totally Dissolved
Coffee Literature Review
Best Design/Packaging
This work honors notable design or packaging work in coffee.
Winner: Koppi (Helsingborg)
Honoree: Scenery (London)
Finalists:
Painted Leopard (Berkeley)
Three Marks Coffee (Barcelona)
Cherry Coffee (Fort Worth, TX)
Dune Coffee (Santa Barbara)
Partners Coffee (Brooklyn)
A Matter of Concrete (Rotterdam)
Best New Cafe
This award is presented to a cafe that has opened in 2024.
Winner: Alquimia Coffee — San Salvador, El Salvador
Honoree: Frutas Selectas by Nomad Coffee — Barcelona, ESP
Finalists:
BIGFACE — Miami, FL
Calico Coffee — London, UK
Hi-NRG — San Francisco, CA
Krea Coffee — Istanbul, Turkey
Special Guests — London, UK
Ondo Coffee — Los Angeles, CA
Sustainable Cafe or Coffee Roaster
This award is presented to a cafe or coffee company for prioritizing sustainable environmental and industry stewardship.
Winner: Isla Coffee (Berlin, Germany)
Honoree: Paso Paso Coffee (Hanover, Germany)
Finalists:
Yallah Coffee (Cornwall, UK)
Seam Coffee (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Sunshine Coffee (Wyoming, USA)
Skylark Coffee (Brighton, UK)
Glen Lyon Coffee Roasters (Aberfeldy, Scotland)
Horsham Coffee Roaster (Sussex, UK)
Notable Event
This award is presented to a coffee event, festival, conference, or competition.
Winner: Women-Powered Coffee Summit
Honoree: The Barista League
Finalists:
CoffeeFest Madrid
Coffee Fest Los Angeles
Pesta Kopi Mandiri by Jakarta Coffee Week
Glasgow Coffee Festival
London Coffee Festival
World of Coffee Busan
Outstanding Achievement
This award is presented each year to a remarkable coffee person, organization, cause, or entity that embodies coffee excellence. This year’s slate of Outstanding Achievement nominees are each being recognized as full and rightful winners of a Sprudgie Award.
Bill Murray + National Coffee Association
Abel Salinas
The 16th Annual Sprudgie Awards presented by Pacific Barista Series.
