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Lukas Zahradnik Is Your 2015 World AeroPress Champion
Lukas Zahradnik of Green Plantation Coffee in Komarno, Slovakia has won the 2015 World AeroPress Champion. This is Mr. Zahradnik’s first career WAC win, and the first win for the nation of Slovakia....
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The Pop-Up Cafes Of SCAA 2015
The 2015 SCAA Event is happening this weekend in Seattle, Washington. A kind of E3 for the coffee world, this trade show is home to huge product launches, exciting new technology, and pop-up cafes...
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World Barista Championship Street Style With Joanna Han
Sprudge contributor Joanna Han scouted the Washington State Convention Center throughout the 2015 World Barista Championship tournament, on the lookout for fashion-forward attendees. In a sea of brew...
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More World Barista Championship Street Style With Joanna Han
Sprudge contributor Joanna Han scouted the Washington State Convention Center throughout the 2015 World Barista Championship tournament, on the lookout for fashion-forward attendees. In a sea of brew...
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10 Luxury Espresso Machines From The Biggest Coffee Event In The World
This weekend, the senior editors of Sprudge tasked Charlie Burt of Kansas City to check out as many SCAA 2015 espresso machines as possible and document these sweet-as machines. From product launches...
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I Drank 10 Coffees At SCAA And Wrote About It For Sprudge
This weekend, the senior editors of Sprudge tasked Charlie Burt of Kansas City to visit as many SCAA exhibitors as possible and drink all the coffees. This is no easy task. But in a few short hours,...
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Seattle: At The Secret Launch of MAVAM Espresso
Last month, in an industrial garage on 11th Avenue, between Pike & Pine on Seattle’s teeming Capitol Hill, a new espresso machine company was launched. Dubbed MAVAM Espresso, it’s the work of a...
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A Barista’s Cafe: Act II For Seattle’s Neptune Coffee
Husband-and-wife team Baltazar Soto and Christine Esparolini had planned to launch a new Seattle coffee bar from the ground up. But when they learned that after almost seven years, Neptune Coffee...
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Seattle: Tin Umbrella Cafe In Hillman City, Open Rain Or Shine
In 2012, Joya Iverson sat on a corner in front of an abandoned gas station in Seattle’s Hillman City neighborhood counting how many people walked by the vacant building that would become her cafe and...
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Inside The Global Design World Of Starbucks
At the 2014 Specialty Coffee Association of America Symposium, Starbucks Design VP Bill Sleeth delivered this talk on the brand’s international design efforts, and we were captivated by the imagery....
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Indaba Coffee In Spokane, WA
Spokane, Washington’s got all this great stuff going for it—craft breweries with fans across the country, homegrown progressive dining and cocktail scenes, proximity to one of America’s most...
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At Seattle’s London Plane, The Dream Of Curated Retail & Brunch
The London Plane in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood is actually a collection of seven businesses in one. The one-year-old project includes a flower shop, patisserie, bread bakery, deli, catering...
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Seattle: MiiR’s Flagship Cafe Offers Social Enterprise & Sleek Design
Seattle-based outdoors outfitter MiiR is working towards an ambitious mission: to design products that help people “rise above poverty.” Now, the company has entered into the city’s cafe scene and is...
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Nice Package: Olympia Coffee Roasting Company, Olympia, Washington
A redesign is a precious thing. Since launching in 2005, the brand has gone through an ownership change, expanded to several new cafes, and helped define what a quality-focused coffee brand can look...
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Seattle: Beep Beep! It’s Convoy Coffee In Pioneer Square
During a road trip from California to Washington State, Alex Johnstone and David Rothstein decided to start a coffee company. The recent college grads were into climbing, and during the vacation they...
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This Coffee Cocktail From Seattle Is A Naka Knock-Out
Hey Pete Licata, there’s a cocktail in Seattle with your name on it. Here now, Nik Virrey—who alongside friend Brandon Paul Weaver makes up half of Seattle’s best known professional coffee-slash-booze...
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In Seattle, A Math-Inspired Cafe Where It All Adds Up
Almost as soon as QED Coffee’s Matt Greenfield graduated with a math degree from The Evergreen State College, he knew he wasn’t going to use it. At least not directly. But the owner of the...
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Seattle: The Infinite Complexity Of Espresso Vivace
In Seattle, the venerable roaster shoulders that the city’s many cafes stand on mostly have names that start with a “V”. Follow the breadcrumb trail through the streets of Capitol Hill and you’ll find...
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Seattle: La Marzocco Is Opening A Showroom At The Brand New KEXP
Cool news out of Seattle, Washington today as our longtime friends & partners at La Marzocco are embarking on a new project: the La Marzocco Showroom at KEXP Radio’s new home in Seattle Center....
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Nice Package: Zoka Coffee Roasters, Seattle, Washington
A nice package does more than just announce itself; a truly nice package goes on to make an exciting impression, again and again, even when the brand it’s attached to is warm and familiar. So the...
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