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A Custom Linea Mini From La Marzocco Home And Pantechnicon
Few things in the coffee world give us greater palpitations here at Sprudge Global Headquarters than a choice custom espresso machine. Perhaps its our West Coast roots—there’s just something so hot...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Anchorhead Coffee of Seattle, Washington
Established coffee companies are getting into the cold brew game hard these days, expanding their offerings line with bottled options and cute lil’ cartons. But what about a company that first made...
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Support, Encourage, Inspire: At The Coffeewoman’s Seattle Event
Laila Willbur wants to be clear. “It’s not meant to be, let’s get a bunch of girls in the room and bitch about men,” she says. Instead, The Coffeewoman exists to “support, encourage, and inspire”...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Emissary of Washington, DC
In this crazy coffee world of ours, there’s a new story to tell every single day. Take your mind’s eye to the American capital, Washington DC, where a coffee pro with experience in Scandinavia has...
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Narrative Coffee: A Story From Everett, Washington
When it comes to coffee, Everett, Washington has earned the dubious distinction of being home to some newsworthy bikini-barista stands. But the city 30 miles north of Seattle welcomed a new option of...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Sound & Fog of Seattle, Washington
We love coffee. We love beer. And boy do we love wine. A new cafe in West Seattle is set to open serving up all three, with the goal of becoming a “neighborhood destination.” To sweeten the pot...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Fonté Coffee Roasters In Bellevue, Washington
Longtime Seattle specialty coffee stalwarts Fonté Coffee Roasters are expanding across the lake, opening a new location in Bellevue, Washington later this year. This will be one of the last new cafes...
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At Seattle’s Craftworks Coffee, Staying Local In A Changing Neighborhood
Has Lower Queen Anne gotten hip? Craftworks Coffee is one of several new signs in the area that strongly point to yes. Located beneath the Expo Apartments, one of Seattle’s many new residential...
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Cherry Street Public House: Community, Coffee, and Khoreshes
With Seattle at the forefront of the resistance to Trump’s travel ban, Ali and Laila Ghambari’s first cafe explicitly featuring flavors and traditions of their Persian heritage seems a well-timed...
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Coffee Sprudgecast Episode 37: Kyle Gaffney of SkB Architects
Welcome to Episode 37 of the Coffee Sprudgecast, Sprudge Media Network’s podcast dedicated to coffee and hosted by our founders Zachary Carlsen and Jordan Michelman. Check out The Coffee Sprudgecast...
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Nice Package: Indaba Coffee In Spokane, Washington
I’m going to be real: some of the best artists I know are baristas. Take Joey Bareither, a Spokane-based graphic artist and barista responsible for the gorgeous art upon the bags of Indaba Coffee....
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Espresso Subscriptions & Tim Wendelboe At The La Marzocco Cafe
The La Marzocco Café and Showroom inside Seattle’s KEXP Studios—winner of the 2016 Sprudgie Award for Best New Cafe—has a guest program like no other, allowing roasters from around the country to take...
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The Wind Is At Your Back At Velocity In Port Townsend, Washington
To understand what makes Velocity, a cafe in Port Townsend, Washington, special, you have to start by learning a little bit about Port Townsend itself. Port Townsend is a town with salty roots. Named...
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Storms A Brewin’: The New Mega Cold Brewer From BKON
Last year, BKON dove into the cold brew landscape headfirst when co-founders and brothers Dean and Lou Vastardis began researching ways to use their patented RAIN (“reverse atmospheric infusion”)...
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The Uninhibited Sprudge Guide To SCA 2017
It’s here! The Specialty Coffee Association‘s Global Coffee Expo has arrived, and it’s going down over an action-packed weekend in Seattle, Washington. Buckle up—this is coffee’s equivalent of E3,...
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The 2017 Fantasy US Barista Championship Is Now Open
The Fantasy US Barista Championship is back again for 2017. All you have to do is pick your six favorite baristas (that you can afford) and sit back and watch the cash prizes and adoration from all...
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Kyle Ramage Is Your 2017 United States Barista Champion!
Kyle Ramage of Mahlkonig USA in Durham, NC, has won the 2017 United States Barista Championship. Over the past three days in the Seattle, Washington, 36 of the country’s best baristas put together...
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The Stronghold Roaster Stuns On The SCA Showfloor
The dazzling SCA Global Coffee Expo showfloor is a land of shiny things—all the better to check my hair in. But once I stopped to look around and hunt for new stories, I discovered a major trend at...
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I Don’t Need Acaia’s New Orion Bean Counter, But I Want It!
Much as I’d like to fancy myself a proto-Marie Kondo, decluttering myself into a negative existence, I admittedly have a weakness for stuff I don’t need. I haven’t taken the plunge with an Apple...
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Mazzer Goes Filter On The SCA Showfloor
Sometime in our twenties, we come to the conclusion that we cannot live off of beer and pizza alone and should probably add some salad to our diet. In the same spirit of doing what’s healthy for you,...
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