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Dylan Siemens Of Onyx Coffee Lab Is The 2017 US Brewers Cup Champion
Mark Michaelson of Onyx Coffee Lab had just won the US Coffee Roasting Championship. Andrea Allen of Onyx Coffee Lab was a prohibitive favorite to win—or at very least place high—in the finals at the...
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2017 US Barista Champion Kyle Ramage: The Sprudge Interview
On Sunday, April 23rd 2017 the United States Barista Championship tournament crowned a new champion: Kyle Ramage of Mahlkonig USA, based in Durham, North Carolina. Ramage’s path to glory passed first...
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At The Coffeewoman Panel: “Building Influence and Changing Power Structures”
On Saturday, April 22nd at the 2017 SCA Global Coffee Expo in Seattle, a group of seven coffee professionals gathered for a public panel discussion on the topic of “Building Influence and Changing...
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The Coffee Sprudgecast Ep. 41: Live From The 2017 US Coffee Championships
Welcome to a very special episode of The Coffee Sprudgecast, taped live on the floor (and outside in the sun!) at the 2017 US Coffee Championships in Seattle, Washington. Special Correspondent Liz Chai...
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Hijinks On The Floor At The 2017 Global Coffee Expo
The 2017 Global Coffee Expo has come and gone, shimmering bright like a magical diamond, then fading out like a golden sunset. All that’s left are the memories. We covered the coffee competitions. We...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Indi Chocolate In Seattle, Washington
Coffee and chocolate, chocolate and coffee: they go together in more than just a mocha. At the new Indi Chocolate location in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, that means sourcing cacao from cooperatives...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Third Culture Coffee In Bellevue, WA
2017 feels like a banner year for coffee projects in Washington State located beyond the urban hegemony of the city of Seattle. That city—where this website was first plotted and launched—has become...
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Royal Coffee’s Crown On The Road Heads To Seattle On Monday
The Crown stays On The Road. The traveling green coffee educational sessions from the Bay Area’s Royal Coffee pulls into Seattle Monday and Tuesday, where they will be hosting two separate learning...
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At Seattle’s Street Bean, A Better Life In Coffee
Walking into this Belltown, Seattle, cafe feels like walking into any other coffee shop. Large, sliding windows let in a ton of natural light. Wooden tables and chairs and local art furnish the...
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Camber Coffee Is Now Open In Bellingham
I’m working a new beat for Sprudge, covering the “major Washington State progressive coffee bar openings not in Seattle” scene. It is my favorite beat. As a lifelong Pacific Northwestern and native...
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Yes, You Can Still Drink Coffee While Driving In Washington
Washington state’s new distracted driving law took effect over the weekend, and it has many concerned that some of their favorite, nay necessary, mid-drive activities—like, say, drinking a cup of...
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Stumptown Is Closing Their Pine Street Location In Seattle
Breaking today here on Sprudge, Stumptown Coffee Roasters will shutter its Pine Street location in Seattle, Washington on August 20th. Sprudge received tips on the closure from Stumptown employees,...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: The Roast House In Spokane, WA
From Tacoma to Everett to Bellingham, we’ve been delighted to profile a number of exciting new Washington State cafe openings this year not located in the city of Seattle. But what about on the other...
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Nice Package: Foreigner Coffee
Over at our sister site Sprudge Wine we’ve got an appetite for good looking wine bottles…but a good looking bottle of coffee? Now we’ve seen everything! Foreigner Coffee founder Brandon Paul Weaver...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Fox Loves Taco In Washington, D.C.
The only thing better than coffee is coffee with breakfast tacos. That happens to be the very concept in play at Fox Loves Taco, the new Washington, D.C. coffee bar from the team behind Little Red...
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Seattle Coffee Works In Seattle, WA
The Build-Outs train rolls on as we draw closer and closer to the end of summer. But before that, we have to check back in on Seattle, where Seattle Coffee Works is working on their fourth cafe....
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Build-Outs Of Summer: Pilgrim Coffeehouse In Seattle, WA
Today is the last calendar day of Summer 2017, which means it’s the final day of our Build-Outs of Summer series for the year on Sprudge. Fresh Builds are rolling through just under the wire,...
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Inside Olympia Coffee’s New West Seattle Cafe
When I met Sam Schroeder at Olympia Coffee’s newest location, on a sleepy stretch of road in West Seattle, he had just finished a six-hour shift behind the cafe’s white marble bar. Outside, a dog was...
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A Decaf-Focused Coffee Dinner From Narrative This Friday
Coffee at restaurants is by and large bad. Really, really bad. Like, how-did-your-palate-create-this-amazing-food-but-not-realize-this-coffee-is-garbage bad. There are certainly exceptions, many of...
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What Is A Hot Box Latte Art Throwdown? Find Out Thursday At Visions
Have you ever seen a latte art throwdown? Yeah, but have you ever seen a latte art throwdown on… you know what, nevermind, because despite its name, this isn’t that sort of event. But this Thursday’s...
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