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First Look Inside Stumptown Coffee At The New Orleans Ace Hotel
On Saturday, April 2nd our friends & partners at Stumptown Coffee will kick open the doors to their first cafe in the American south, in the great city of New Orleans. Located at 600 Carondelet...
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This New Bike Helmet Makes Pour-Over Coffee
Coffee is the fuel of many cyclists. It’s what keeps the legs spinning and the heart pumping. Whether it’s before a ride or after, a coffee-loving cyclist will tell you that there’s no better drink...
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Chiang Mai: A Coffee Lover’s Guide
As a tourist destination, Chiang Mai is famous for temples, elephants, and traditional Thai culture. However, that’s all changing. Chiang Mai’s incredible arts and food scenes have been given...
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Coffee’s Many Alien Mysteries, Revealed
Coffee: So delicious, and yet so mysterious. Is it a naturally occurring earth-bound substance? Or could it perhaps be the work of ancient aliens? Our feature series is less funny now that this is...
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Is Direct Trade Fair?
In April of 2008, journalist Michaele Weissman released her groundbreaking book God in a Cup: the Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee. Now, in a three part series on Sprudge, Weissman revisits...
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Magic In The Moonshine: Cascara Booze Is Here
Cascara, once little more than a waste byproduct of coffee production, is now the drink de rigueur of the worldwide coffee scene. Cascara is the dried husk of the coffee cherry. East Africa coffee...
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Stumptown Just Launched New Sparkling Cold Brew Cans
With summer just around the corner (or if you’re from the South like me, it never really left, just kinda chilled out for a hot second), it’s time to start thinking about swimsuits, beach bods, and of...
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True Stories From Uppers & Downers, The Festival Of Coffee Beers
In its third iteration as a festival (evolved from its more salon-like origins), this year’s edition of the Uppers and Downers coffee beer festival—from co-producers Michael Kiser of Good Beer Hunting...
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Denver Coffee Shops Reach Their Second Act
Denver Central Mall, home to the new Crema Coffee bodega Over the past year, multiple Denver-based coffee companies have opened second locations in the city. Not every new shop in this feature...
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Show Me The Money: Direct Trade Volume 3
“We need to make people on this end of the supply chain understand that Direct Trade should have tangible results, not just marketing results.” —Andrew Daday, former Director of Coffee, Stumptown...
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Coffee Loves Beer: Breakside Brewery’s New Guji Gose
We’re counting down the days until Coffee Beer, a new coffee beer festival from Sprudge and Stumptown Coffee Roasters happening Saturday, September 16th in Portland, Oregon. In the lead up to the...
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Night Of 1000 Pours: Join Us To Raise Funds On September 29th
September 29th, 2017 is National Coffee Day, and the 8th anniversary of the launch of Sprudge. To celebrate we’re calling on our readers around the worldwide to join us in a new charitable initiative:...
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Coffee Loves Beer: Gigantic Brewing’s New “SOLID Guji!“
We’re just a few short days from September 16th and the launch of Coffee Beer, a new coffee beer festival from Sprudge and Stumptown Coffee Roasters. Tickets are on sale now, with a portion of...
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Announcing The 2017 Sprudgie Awards Finalists
From tens of thousands of votes cast all across the world, nominations poured in for the 2017 Sprudgie Awards, honoring the very best in specialty coffee. These votes have now been calculated, and we...
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Sprudgie Awards Spotlight: The 2017 Nominees For Best New Cafe
Earlier this week we unveiled the nominees for the Ninth Annual Sprudgie Awards. Voting is now open across a dozen categories, honoring the very best in coffee. Voting ends December 31st, 2017 at 11:59...
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Art In The Cafe: A Conversation With May Barruel Of Stumptown Coffee
I believe in the power of cafe walls. Growing up in Tacoma, Washington, my first exposure to visual art and coffee went hand in hand, at long-departed coffee bars like The Usual and Temple of the...
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As Total Retail Coffee Sales Stagnate, Cafe Sales Increase
The American economy is doing pretty, pretty, pretty okay right now. Or at least that’s what Bloomberg Markets is saying; I really have no idea. I know the Dow Jones did a thing and the president...
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Black Coffee: The New Event From Michelle Johnson Premieres April 24th
My dear coffee friend, come, sit. It’s time for us to have “the talk.” It may seem like we’ve had this talk before—the one that involves race and how it intersects with coffee culture, but trust me...
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NXT LVL Joins Michelle Johnson’s Black Coffee Event On April 24th
BLACK COFFEE, the new event from creative director Michelle Johnson, debuts in Portland, Oregon on April 24th. This live podcast event draws from the coffee industry’s deep pool of Black intellectual...
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Black Coffee Is Coming April 24th
We’re just a few short days from Black Coffee, a new live podcast event from creative director Michelle Johnson in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available here, and today we’ve got some exciting...
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