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Zac Cadwalader

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Writing about coffee. Thinking about climbing. Probably eating bread. Managing Editor at @Sprudge
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Articles by Zac Cadwalader

From Coffee Grounds To Biochar In 90 Seconds Flat

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Much of coffee grounds’ value as an ecologically-minded alternative comes from its ability to be converted into biochar. From concrete to insulation to cleaning contaminated water, coffee can do it all after it has been converted into biochar. And with all the many uses already found for biochar, researchers are looking for new ways to producer it better and faster. Which is exactly what a team at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources  (KIGAM) did.
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Three New World Coffee Champions Were Just Crowned

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The competition season simply refuses to slow down. After crowning new barista champions in both Canada and the United States over the last two weeks, the eyes of the coffee world turn now to Belgium, where over the weekend World of Coffee’s European leg took place in Brussels. And while the SCA’s premier trade show series was chockablock with booths and new tech, it was the coffee competitions that got things heated up.
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The Real Resident Barista At The World Cup Is Becky Reeves

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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A certain soccer team took the pitch yesterday for what was a thankfully low-stakes contest with Turkiye, who is already eliminated from the tournament. (I won’t spoil the ending for you.) Nonetheless, the match wasn’t meaningless. The U.S. national soccer team was able to rest their four starters wth yellow cards, get some run for their bench players, and see how Christian Pulisic held up post-injury.
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Exactly How Much Coffee Do You Need To Boost Athletic Performance?

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Long before the world of creatine and peptides and milk thistle and amphetamines of varying danger and legality, there was the original performance enhancer: coffee. It’s what gave athletes and non-athletes alike that little extra bit of focus and energy they needed to tackle whatever challenge they faced, be it a sprint or a full day of parenting. A new meta-study has examined exactly what sort of boost caffeine can provide athletes and the level required to get it.
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Jill Hoff Of Monogram Coffee Is The 2026 Canada Barista Champion

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The US Barista Championship took place over the weekend in Denver. Jak Michael Ryan of Proud Mary in Austin, Texas and will go on to represent America at the World Barista Championship later this year in Panama. But the US wasn’t the only nation hosting a Barista Championship this month. Our neighbors to the north, Canada, recently held their barista competition, where they crowned their own representative for this year’s WBC.
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La Marzocco Is Taking Affogatos On The Road With Ice Cream Social

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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It’s summer and in the coffee world that can mean only one thing. No, not cold brew. In this house we drink hot coffee all year round. I’m of course talking about the affogato, the iconic blend of ice cream and espresso. Hot and cold, syrupy and sugary sweet. It’s summertime perfection. La Marzocco knows this, and that’s why they are hosting Ice Cream Social, a summer event series built around the beloved affogato.
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Team USA’s Secret Weapon At The World Cup? Defender And Resident Barista Joe Scally

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The World Cup is taking place right now at stadiums across North America, and maybe it’s the home field advantage, but the United States team hasn’t been this much fun to watch since, well, the last time America hosted the world’s greatest soccer tournament 32 years ago. Their attacking style of play and constant pressure, a hallmark of head coach Mauricio Pochettino, makes it feel like they are on the verge of scoring at any moment.
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Conical Vs. Flat Burrs? You Can Have Both With The New LAGOM GDS Grinder

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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One of the first major decisions one must make as a fledgling coffee gear nerd is conical versus flat burrs for their grinder. Are you chasing that syrupy god shot? Then maybe you want a conical burr. Or are you looking for maximum flavor clarity in you tea-like pour-over? Perhaps a flat burr is the best way to go. Of course the distinction and uses for the two isn’t quite so discrete.
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Here Is Everyone Competing At The 2026 US Barista Championship

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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It’s finally here! The 2026 US Barista Championship is here! Kicking off tomorrow at the Huckleberry Roasters HQ in Denver, Colorado, the US Barista Championship brings together 30 of the best competition baristas in the country, all vying for a chance to represent the United States at the World Barista Championship in Panama later this year. And hoo boy is the field absolutely stacked this year.
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EU Law Requires Paying Coffee Farmers A Living Wage, And The Largest Companies Aren’t Prepared

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Say what you will about the European Union’s flawed deforestation laws, but they are trying to move the needle in terms of equity and sustainability in the coffee world.
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Researchers Make Energy-Efficient Espresso Using Ultrasonic Sound Waves

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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For all the many technological innovations made to espresso machines over the last two decades, the act of making espresso is functionally unchanged: pressurized hot water is passed through ground coffee. But researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney have created a new method entirely. Using ultrasonic soundwaves, they created an espresso-strength beverage using room temperature water, and it significantly reduces the energy used.
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Portland Just Banned Foie Gras. Is Kopi Luwak Next?

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Last week, the city of Portland, Oregon passed a measure banning the sale and service of force-fed foie gras in restaurants. The ordinance comes with a fine of up to $5,000 for a violation. It is not the first of such bans in the US. New York City, Pittsburgh, Brookine, MA, and the entire state of California have previously prohibited force feeding for foie gras. Outside America, 20 countries have banned the practice. In most, if not all, instances the laws are due to unethical treatment of animals.
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Actually, Coffee Masks Caffeine’s Bitter Flavor

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The traditional view of coffee is that it is a bitter drink and that the bitterness is derived primarily from the caffeine content. Now, the reality is that coffee, when done right, isn’t bitter as advertised and decaf tastes remarkably similar to regular. Which is to say, the flavor isn’t impacted by the caffeine content or lack thereof. And new research appears to back this up.
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A Colorado Cupping Of Competitive Congolese Cooperative Coffees

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The 2026 US Barista Championship kicks off next week in Denver, Colorado, if you can even believe it. If there’s one drawback to attend barista comps, though, one single thing that could use a little improvement, it’s that you see all these delicious coffees being served and you don’t get to taste a single one of them. And while there won’t be any sort of guest service at this year’s USBC, there will be a pretty unique coffee tasting experience.
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Starbucks Decided AI Inventory Management Isn’t So Great After All

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The big lie of artificial intelligence is that it is going to make everyone’s job easier. That capacity certainly exists of course, but the real goal is not to make jobs easier, but nonexistent. And not in the no-one-has-to-work-anymore-because-all-our-needs-are-being-met sort of way, but in the continue-to-consolidate-wealth-among-a-small-few sort of way. So it isn’t entirely surprising that corporations have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to instituting AI beyond its proven utility.
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The Alliance For Coffee Excellence Has Suspended The Taiwan Cup Of Excellence

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Cup of Excellence is one of the premier auction series highlighting the best coffees produced on a national level. Put on by the Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE), Cup of Excellence events have been held in nearly 20 producing countries as well as private collections and pilot events in emerging regions like Yemen (2022–2025) and Yunnan (2025), respectively. Sprudge has covered Cup of Excellence events around the world since 2010.
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World Of Coffee Lisbon Announced For 2027

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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World of Coffee is headed to Lisbon in 2027. After making a stop later this month in Brussels, the European leg of the Specialty Coffee Association’s premier trade show series will be moving to the Portugese capital city, and it is bringing with it three different World Coffee Championship events. Announced today, June 4th, World of Coffee Europe will take place June 17th through 19th of next year at the Lisbon Exhibition and Congress Center in the Parque da Nações district.
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Poorly Proportioned Porcelain Percolator Perpetrates Pour-Over Piddle

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Coffee is art. It’s a fact the specialty coffee has spent the past two-plus decades trying to convince the world of. It is also true that art is coffee, or at least it is in the case of this admittedly wild pour-over. It is inspired by the works of French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and you can buy it on eBay right this very moment. Best known for The Thinker, Rodin is widely considered to be the father of modern sculpture whose work often focuses on the human form.
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Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake Destroys Water Systems On Kona Coffee Farms

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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In the morning hours of Saturday, May 23rd, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Honaunau-Napoopoo on the Big Island in Hawaii. It is the largest earthquake Hawaii has experience in four years, since the 6.2 magnitude quake in October of 2021 just south of shore on the Big Island, about 30 miles from where the most recent struck.
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Roast Retreat Brings Michigan’s Best Roasters Together For A One-Day Event In Detroit

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The local indie coffee festival is a thing of beauty. In a world riddled with bi-coastal hospitality group-hosted events with copy and paste logos—following the familiar “[City] Coffee Festival” and including a roster of questionably local coffee companies, and charging an exorbitant fee for the privilege—the indie event is something altogether different and refreshing. It’s the local coffee community coming together to highlight and celebrate what they have built. It’s organic.
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La Marzocco Becomes First Espresso Machine Manufacturer To Achieve B Corp Certification

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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B Corp certification is a company’s way to formalize their commitment to transparency and ethical business practices, both in terms of social and environmental impact. Multiple well-renowned coffee roasters have earned the designation, included brands like Onyx Coffee Lab, Coffee Collective, Prolog, Olympia, Cloud Picker, and Equator Coffees as well as importers like Cafe Imports and Caravela.
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Caffeine’s Effect On Sleep Isn’t Just About Duration, But Quality As Well

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Coffee and sleep have a complicated relationship. On one hand, coffee can be the cause of, and temporary remedy for, a bad night’s sleep. But on the other, coffee naps are a thing. But the general consensus is that coffee for bed isn’t a great idea if your goal is a good night’s sleep.
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Moccamaster Goes All Black With The New KBGT Midnight

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The little black dress, the tuxedo, a murdered-out car, Ortho Stice, what is it about the simple elegance of all-black monochrome that is so appealing? I mean, Fellow has built a rather successful brand around it—and let’s be honest, you bought that Stagg kettle because it looked good before knowing anything about its functionality. Sure, pops of color allow for a little personality to shine through, but the all-black looks is just tough, plain and simple.
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Ducati Just Made A $3,000 Espresso Machine That Only Runs On Coffee Pods

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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I don’t know what it is about motorcycles and espresso machines that engenders the need to cross-pollinate, but it’s very real. We’ve seen motorcycle-themed cafes, espresso machines on the side of motorcycles, even espresso machines made out of motorcycle engines. But this latest entry into the espresso-motorcycle canon is something far dumber. Motorcycle maker Ducati has just made their own $3,000 espresso machine, and it only works with pods.
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Researchers At Kew Gardens Just Found A Promising New Coffee Hybrid

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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London’s Kew Gardens is one of the most respected coffee research institutions on the planet. Led by Dr. Aaron Davis, the researchers at Kew have been exploring lost and wild coffee species in hopes of finding an answer to climate change, much of which we have previously covered here on Sprudge. And their latest research continues that search with a promising new hybrid. Introducing Libex, a coffee hybrid of Excelsa and Liberica.
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A Celebration Of Top Chef Barista Champion Duyen Ha (And Barista Champions Everywhere!)

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Specialty coffee makes frequent cameos within the hallowed pantheon of Top Chef. America’s most popular cooking competition show has featured Stumptown in Season 18, Colectivo in Season 21, and a rousing home espresso moment in this most reason season (number 23) that even featured a WDT tool.
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La Marzocco’s Officine Fratelli Bambi & Nicki Lange Team Up For A One-Of-A-Kind Espresso Machine

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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There is a common dream amongst many coffee professionals. It involves an espresso machine and the open road and serving coffee at any and all stops along the way. For Nicki Lange, that dream has become a rather stunning reality. The entrepreneur and ultra-distance runner has teamed up with La Marzocco Germany and Officine Fratelli Bambi for a one-of-a-kind Linea Mini and Pico combination that must be seen to be believed.
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Bitterness In Coffee? It’s A Molecular Thing

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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For most of the world, coffee’s main flavor attribute is bitterness. When they talk about a coffee being “strong” or “bold” or “robust” what they really mean is that it is bitter, and their ability to consume it is taken as a point of pride/toughness on a par with taking a shot of whiskey without wincing. They aren’t entirely wrong, though. Bitterness is taste component of coffee, though perhaps not the most prominent one, when done right anyway.
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Chicago Sky Power Forward Maddy Westbeld Loves Coffee

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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If there’s one thing the current NBA playoffs have reminded us of, it is how good of a product the WNBA is. While the Oklahoma City Thunder are getting a personal referee escort to a dynasty, the W actually allows the players to play. I for one am grateful to have at least one professional basketball league in which contact doesn’t turn a players bones to Jell-0, and isn’t rewarded with free throws.
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Coffee May Affect Your Sense Of Touch

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Drinking coffee is a multi-sensory experience. Sight, smell, taste, they all impact how we perceive flavor. But it turns out, coffee may affect our senses, touch in particular. As reported by The Independent, a study published recently in the journal Clinical Neurophysiology sought to examine “how normal and high doses of caffeine affect a specific brain process” relating to interpreting touch and one’s own body movements.
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They’re Testing Out AI Middle Management At Coffee Shops

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Artificial intelligence could be cool were it not for all the objectively stupid uses of it that AI companies foist upon us. (And if it weren’t also an environmental disaster and if it actually reduced the amount of labor a person had to do instead of simply reducing the workforce to further consolidate wealth to a small few and if it was any good at what it was supposed to do and and and and…) And here’s another one: a coffee shop in Stockholm is being managed by AI. What could possibly go wrong?
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Coffee’s Best Friend The Biscoff Cookie Now Comes In Espresso Flavor

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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One of my unwavering coffee beliefs, some may even call it a hot take, is that a Biscoff and a cup of airplane coffee is an S-tier experience. It’s the alchemy of it. The sweetness of the cookie, the bitterness of the coffee (regardless of how objectively gross), the fact that I’m at the start of an adventure—or on the way to some much-needed rest after one. I’ll take that over a thermo-shocked double-fermented Gesha tasting every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
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Le Quang Cuong (Nicky) Of Vietnam⁣ Is The 2026 World Cup Tasters Champion

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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While the World Coffee Championships, produced by the for-profit branch of the non-profit Specialty Coffee Association, remains embroiled in a self-inflicted controversy over the renaming of Taiwan to Chinese Taipei, scheduled events continue on. And the most recent is the 2026 World Cup Tasters Championship.
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Is $9 For Coffee An Affordable Premium Experience?

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Here’s the thing. When you’re the head of the largest and most recognizable coffee company in the whole entire world, whenever you speak it’s news. And so when Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol opens his mouth it’s going to make waves. Which is what happened last week when Niccol was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and said some things people got mad about.
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A New Study Uncovers The Mechanism Behind Coffee’s Impact On Healthy Aging

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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There have been multiple studies to come out in the past few years finding a link between coffee consumption and better, more healthy aging. These studies are mostly observational, meaning they can establish a correlation but haven’t proven the underlying mechanisms. But now, a new study from the Texas A&M University has uncovered one of the potential pathways.
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A Shocking New Way To Determine The Quality Of A Cup Of Coffee

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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By now most coffee professionals and home enthusiasts understand the importance of TDS, the measure of the total number of dissolved solids that have migrated from the roasted coffee to the water in the brewing process. It’s a way to quantify the strength of a coffee and is one of the key pieces of information in assessing a brew, and it’s one of the reasons price-conscious and home-user friendly refractometers like the DiFluid R2 Extract have hit the market in recent years.
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World’s Longest Tiramisu Is Over A Quarter Mile Long

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Consider the tiramisu. It is the world’s greatest coffee-based dessert, begging pardon of the affogato. Part of its greatness is how easy it is to make. Give some savoiardi (aka ladyfingers) a dunk in espresso, layer with mascarpone, and dust with cocoa powder. Then there’s the taste. It’s coffee forward, and light but decadent. It’s the sort of dessert you feel like you could eat forever without getting full.
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Taiwan Is Now “Chinese Taipei” At The World Coffee Championships

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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On April 12th, Bala of Taiwan won the 2026 World Latte Art Championship. This story was widely reported, including here on Sprudge. But now all mentions of Taiwan as they relate to Bala’s historic win have been removed and replaced from the official World Coffee Championships website, which today credits Bala’s win to Chinese Taipei. The distinction is fraught.
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Trader Joe’s Is Being Sued Because Their Coffee Doesn’t Have Enough Caffeine

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Most coffee professionals and enthusiasts would prefer if coffee was appreciated in its own right and not merely as a vehicle for caffeination. Coffee and caffeine are not synonyms. (Unless we are talking about studies that show caffeine—and thus coffee—is beneficial to health. Then they definitely are. Because we are cherry pickers. Some on coffee farms and others in scientific data.) But a new civil lawsuit is challenging everything I thought I knew about myself.
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Get Competition Ready For The New US Barista Championship

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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We’re just under two months from the US Barista Championship taking over the Huckleberry Roasters HQ in Denver, Colorado. And if you’re a competitor it’ll be the longest and shortest two months of your life. Two months to pick a coffee, a theme, build a routine and polish it. So to help, the US Coffee Championships is putting together three different hands-on Barista Championship workshops, and the first one is this weekend in Olympia.
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Molo Mill: A New Vertically-Integrated Flat Burr Hand Grinder

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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There are so many hand grinders on the market today that it’ll make your head spin. Or crank as it were. But there aren’t a whole lot of hand grinders in the world with flat burrs. There’s the Pietro and the Normcore and that’s about it. (You can maybe also find a few rebranded Ali Expresso options but YMMV.) Enter the Molo Mill, a new manual grinder looks to expand the options for the flat burr enthusiast on the go, and it’s on Kickstarter now.
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Coffee’s Positive Effects On The Gut And The Brain May Be Related

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Coffee beneficial effect on gut health as well as brain health and mood have been thoroughly studied separately, but new research suggests coffee may be positive effects on the gut-brain axis. The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional means of communication between the gut microbiome and the brain, allowing the gut to impact things like mood and stress levels.
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A New Initiative To Map Coffee Farms And Fight Deforestation

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is currently scheduled to go into effect at the end of 2026 for medium and large businesses and the start of Q3 2027 for small ones, but even still it looms large over the global coffee industry.
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Is Coffee The New Key To Gene Editing And Cancer Treatment?

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The traditional means for getting the healthful benefits of coffee is the old-fashioned way: you drink it. You drink it and then pretty much all your insides reap the benefits, scientifically speaking. But researchers from Texas A&M have found another way coffee could help you live forever: using caffeine as an on/off switch for gene-editing tools, with a potential to help treat cancer.
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Actually, Philz Coffee Loves Gay Pride And Has Decided The Flags Can Stay

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Last week we reported that San Francisco’s Philz Coffee would be removing all Pride flags from their cafes.
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“Room For Dreams”: La Marzocco & Design Boom At Milan Design Week

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Milan Design Week kicks off today, and it brings design-focused brands and innovators from around the world to the Italian city. And so it should come as no surprise that La Marzocco will not only be in attendance but be an active participant.
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Coffee More Popular Than Water, Says National Coffee Association

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Coffee is insanely popular. This much is known basically the world over; it’s called “the world’s most popular beverage” for a reason. And coffee’s popularity is increasing. It’s something the National Coffee Association regularly tracks and reports on as part of their National Coffee Data Trends report (NCDT). And the latest installation finds the coffee is the most popular beverage, more popular than water, and frankly I’m a little concerned for everyone’s health.
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What If We Used Coffee To Make Eco-Friendly Insulation?

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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Millions of tons of coffee grounds are thrown away every year; estimates put it between and 8 and 60 million tons annually. Most of that ends up in landfills. And because of its abundance, researchers have spent years looking into different eco-friendly uses for spent coffee grounds. Water decontamination, next-gen batteries, stronger concrete, biodiesel, 3D printer filament, shoes, even biodegradable plastics: upcycled coffee grounds have been used to create all these things.
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The Equity Entity Known As “Philz Coffee” Just Removed Their Pride Flags

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The private equity takeover of Philz Coffee is going about exactly like you expect it would. Which is to say, it’s going great. Why? What have you heard?
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Bala Of Taiwan Is The 2026 World Latte Art Champion

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By Zac Cadwalader Verified
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The US leg of World of Coffee took place over the weekend in San Diego, California and boy was it ever a doozy. The show floor was humming, the parties were bumping, but one event in particular is worth further inquiry here on a blurry post-show Monday, and that is the 2026 World Latte Art Championship. It is a bit of a breakthrough moment for the US.
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