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Letter: Westin Place would help diversify the Senate
Westin Place would help diversify the Senate I identify politically as a “conservative independent,” follow a variety of news venues regularly to sift out bias, watch during the years between elections and compare results to campaign promises, and I support Westin Place for State Senator from District 38. Rhode Island Sen.
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Survey of Consumer Inflationary and Wage Expectations
The August 2022 Survey of Consumer Inflationary and Wage Expectations was released at 11am AEST, Thursday, 11 August 2022. The expected inflation rate (30-per-cent trimmed mean measure) fell by 0.4 percentage points in August to 5.9 per cent. Total pay is expected to grow by 0.8 per cent over the next 12 months.
Melbourne: Acoffee Is A Coffee Showroom In Collingwood
This week on Sprudge we’re turning our attention to Australia, where one of the world’s great coffee cultures is currently threatened by an unprecedented climate crisis. While you enjoy these features on Australia please also consider joining our coffee colleagues by donating to the Red Cross Bush Fire Relief Fund. Sometimes when I hear of another cafe opening in Melbourne, the skeptic in me often wonders: is there even space for more in this town?
Custom Vision: The Espresso Machines of Melbourne’s Specht Design
This week on Sprudge we’re turning our attention to Australia, where one of the world’s great coffee cultures is currently threatened by an unprecedented climate crisis. While you enjoy these features on Australia please also consider joining our coffee colleagues by donating to the Red Cross Bush Fire Relief Fund. When you’re setting up a cafe, every aesthetic and functional detail gets taken into consideration, from the floor color and texture (tiles, wood, cement?) to the walls (barn wood?
A Cafe In Memories, And In The Heart: Paladar In Brisbane
This week on Sprudge we’re turning our attention to Australia, where one of the world’s great coffee cultures is currently threatened by an unprecedented climate crisis. While you enjoy these features on Australia please also consider joining our coffee colleagues by donating to the Red Cross Bush Fire Relief Fund.
The Quiet Mastery Behind Market Lane’s Tasmanian Ice Porcelain Coffee Cups
This week on Sprudge we’re turning our attention to Australia, where one of the world’s great coffee cultures is currently threatened by an unprecedented climate crisis. While you enjoy these features on Australia please also consider joining our coffee colleagues by donating to the Red Cross Bush Fire Relief Fund.
MacIntyre Coffee, A Transatlantic Multi-Roaster in London
From London’s bustling, trendsetting specialty coffee scene comes a unique space in the East End suburb of Hoxton by the name of MacIntyre Coffee. Opened in late 2013, MacIntyre is a café designed with an express purpose of functionality and customer experience, offering a diverse roster of roasters from London and North America and a series of deeply fascinating custom coffee bar modifications. Everything is up for debate at MacIntyre; this is a coffee bar of consideration.
10 Cute Animals Show You How To Recycle Leftover Coffee Grounds
A daily morning coffee routine means one thing: daily leftover coffee grounds. Most of the time, they just get tossed in the trash. That’s your first mistake; coffee grounds are happy to be composted, along with coffee filters. But you might not want to be so fast to throw your grounds out at all. Leftover coffee grounds are actually quite useful, from keeping your dishes clean to keeping you looking your best. Not convinced? Here are 10 ways to use your leftover coffee grounds. 1.
In Australia, The Coffee Drones We're Looking For Are Here
In Bonython, a suburb of Australia’s capital city, Canberra, coffee is reaching all new heights with bevvies going airborne and being delivered by drone. Drone delivery has been teased for years but Alphabet, Google’s parent company, have finally made the future a reality with their delivery test they’re calling, Project Wing.
Take It Down A Notch, Australia
Australia, I love you, you know I love you, but some of y’all need to be on a daily regimen of high-dose chill pills. Case in point: a recent article in The Guardian examines how World Coffee Research is planting 35 different coffee varieties in 23 countries to see how they perform in different climates. WCR’s goal, according to the article, is to find potentially suitable new coffeelands to meet a growing demand all the while climate change shifts where coffee can be produced.
In Colorado Springs, Loyal Coffee Is Small In Focus But Grand In Execution
When you think of Colorado coffee, Denver is undoubtedly the first place to come to mind. With companies like Amethyst, Corvus, Commonwealth, Huckleberry, and Sweet Bloom, all of whom have made names for themselves nationally through competition, community work, and widespread presence in quality coffee bars, it’s natural to see the city as Colorado’s coffee epicenter. But if you let your mind wander about 70 miles south on I-25 to Colorado Springs, you’ll find another city making an argument.
Belo Horizonte's Café Magrí Is So Much More
“This is not a coffee shop,” says the sign written on the counter wall where the coffees are prepared at Café Magrí in Belo Horizonte, a Brazilian city that boasts a deep tradition in coffee—Minas Gerais, where the city is located, is one of the biggest Arabica-producing states in the nation. The message on the wall is not arbitrary. Café Magrí has taken this name in homage to the surrealist artist René Magritte, known for his juxtaposition of textual and visual signs.
Melbourne's Market Lane Coffee Finds A New Home At The Queen Victoria Market
In a town like Melbourne, where food and drink are the lifeblood of people’s professional and recreational day-to-day, places like the Queen Victoria Market are the beating heart of the city. It’s where families come to get their weekly groceries (and maybe some fancy delicatessen goods), it’s where chefs come to pick up seasonal vegetables and meat, and it’s where tourists flock to try the delicious dips and famed boreks (or to gather some delightfully kitschy Australiana souvenirs).
The Analytics of Autumn: A Requiem For The 2018 Build-Outs Of Summer
Summer’s come and gone, a-trill and molting like the whip-poor-will gave way to autumn’s shimmered gloom. And tho the winter’s sun grew weary season cycles pedaled clearly t’wards a waltzing April’s bloom. The sun again begat the thrill of Building-Out—an out to build! Another summer is in the books and that means so too is another Build-Outs of Summer, Sprudge’s series highlighting new and upcoming cafes from around the world.
Melbourne Cafes Are Running Out Of Ideas? Well, Duh.
A recent examination of Melbourne cafes by Broadsheet editor, Nick Connellan, asks an honest question: do the city’s cafes have what it takes to continue influencing cafe culture globally? Can they still be unique enough from each other locally to survive? And is the era of Melbourne cafe as international cultural symbol beginning to fade?
In Brasília, Casa Quilha Is A Space For Makers
Casa Quilha is a place to come and linger with a coffee—or beer. Whether you want to read a book, meet a friend, or have a gathering, the great atmosphere and the cheery founders welcome you. Partners Luciana Araújo (former partner at Objeto Encontrado), Ricardo Theodoro, Kauê Blass, and Bruno Terra undeniably gave life to the somewhat uncharted part of Brasilia their cafe calls home. “We wanted it to be a home, for us, our customers, and our projects,” Araújo says.
Thoughtful Food & Tasty Coffee Outside Melbourne At Rudimentary In Footscray
More than seven years ago, I moved from Brisbane to Melbourne to start anew—captivated by the coffee industry, the culture, the opportunities, and the freedom to wear as much dark-colored clothing as I wanted.
Bitter & Real Is The Netherlands' Eco-Coffee Truck
In the Northern Hemisphere, official fun-in-the-sun season is over. Yet some lucky autumnal gallivanters in the Netherlands are finding themselves at events with a parking spot reserved for Bitter & Real. After a busy summer, the electric mobile specialty coffee company that advocates “more coffee, less fossil fuel” is still on the road. Upcoming stops include Rotterdam’s creative lifestyle-outfitting Swan Market, Amsterdam’s annual jewelry fair, and a culinary disco bash in a Breda church.
Lost In A Forest: Your Wine + Pizza Destination In The Adelaide Hills
It’s an incredibly hot and humid Sunday afternoon in summer when I weave my way through the Adelaide Hills. After visiting some winemakers, tasting some reds, and flailing in the heat, the last thing you’d think you’d want would be a wood-fired pizza outdoors. But add in a glass of chilled Chardonnay and a shady spot on the grass, and you’ve actually got a pretty great time sorted, all of which can be found at Lost in a Forest.
SAME CUP Is Diversifying Australia's Coffee Scene
Australia is widely known as the place for coffee—and if you weren’t aware already, the Melburnians will tell you so. As an American living amongst all this self-proclaimed greatness over the last year, credit where it’s due: the coffee here is consistently sweet and delicious (though I make better filter coffee at home). But when I walk into my neighborhood cafe, or any cafe in Melbourne for that matter, most of the baristas slinging shots are men.
Cell Phones! Robots! Frozen Espresso! At Ada’s Discovery Cafe
In the future—not long from now, surely—each and every telecom data replenishment node will sport a far-out high-end cyber modified coffee experience. But here in 2018 there is Ada’s Discovery Cafe, a first-of-its-kind high-flying collaboration between Seattle local indie Ada’s Technical Books and multinational telecommunications conglomerate AT&T, open now at Broadway and East Thomas.
Toby's Estate Announces New Bushwick Cafe And Roasting Space
Breaking news coming out of Brooklyn as Toby’s Estate has announced—and you’re hearing about it first here on Sprudge—a brand new cafe and roasting space to open later this fall in Bushwick. Their sixth location, the new space will operate alongside Toby’s original Williamsburg roastery, allowing the company to “double its roasting capacity while staying true to [their] small-batch philosophy,” per the brand.
Inside Everyday Coffee's Maybe Pop-Up Maybe Permanent Melbourne Cafe
What do you get when you cross an exhibition space, a print shop, a work shop, a book shop, and a coffee shop? Well, something that sounds like the set-up for a really terrible joke, but is actually a building filled with creatives and a buzzing coffee shop headed up by Everyday Coffee.
The Rise Of Consumer-Focused Coffee At Stielman In Rotterdam
Among the dozen local enterprises filling Rotterdam’s Fenix Food Factory, the most nominally fitting these days is Stielman. Though the consumer-focused specialty coffee roaster has been around since May 2014, last year marked the beginning of its phoenix-like rise.
Build-Outs Of Summer: Golf Park Coffee In Lynchburg, VA
Many coffee companies started small. Before they were a multi-national entity, Blue Bottle for instance got their start at a local farmer’s market. It is an origin story not uncommon in the specialty coffee world, but our next entry into the Build-Outs of Summer has a twist. Lynchburg, Virginia’s Golf Park Coffee started out like many others, selling coffee at local community events, but unlike others, Golf Park only served cold brew.
Melbourne: Sourdough And Coffee Find A New Home At Wild Life Bakery
This week on Sprudge we’re turning our attention to Australia, where one of the world’s great coffee cultures is currently threatened by an unprecedented climate crisis. While you enjoy these features on Australia please also consider joining our coffee colleagues by donating to the Red Cross Bush Fire Relief Fund. We’ve said it before but Melbourne has become something of a hotbed of food, coffee, and wine over the years.
Spencer's Coffee In Bowling Green, KY
When is a Build-Out not a build-out? When it’s a knock out. Which is to say, when the space next to an already existing cafe becomes available, allowing for a much-needed expansion via knocking out a wall or two. That’s the story for the partially new Spencer’s Coffee in Bowling Green, Kentucky. When the law firm next door unexpectedly closed, Spencer’s had the rare chance boost their seating capacity (because 80+ just wasn’t enough) while still serving the neighborhood they love.
At Home With Anton Van Klopper Of Lucy Margaux Wines
It’s a blazing hot January day here in the Adelaide Hills—the best time to visit, so long as you don’t mind temperatures as high as 40° (that’s 104° for you Americans). It’s a few weeks before grapes begin to fully ripen, which happily means that many winemakers are in town, bottling and getting their cellars ready for the impending chaos of harvest time. It’s in this state of limbo that I’m able to nail down some time with the elusive Anton van Klopper, of Lucy Margaux Wines fame.
DC’s First Natural Wine Fair Happens Saturday June 30th
If you’re free this coming Saturday, June 30th and live in the DC area, or a little outside, I suggest you head over to the first edition of Laissesz-Fair(e) Natural Wine Social (2-7pm, 1402 H St NE). It’s a strong suggestion, and I’m bummed I can’t attend. Instead of spending the day with contractors, I’d much rather be tasting natural wine from near and far in a pop-up gallery space surrounded by fellow natural wine lovers and the wine-curious public.
A Visit To Counter Culture's New Seattle Training Center
Counter Culture Coffee’s Seattle Training Center is the sort of space you might stumble upon by chance. Located in a narrow storefront on 1st Street in the city’s Pioneer Square, its two-C logo affixed to the building’s facade just looks like it belongs. Has it always been here? It hasn’t, but Counter Culture’s Seattle “TC”, as it’s colloquially referred to, has been in the making since 2016.
Build-Outs Of Summer: Either/Or In Portland, OR
We’ve been fans of Either/Or here in Portland, Oregon since they launched in 2013 with a sweet little cafe in sleepy Sellwood, in the city’s south. But now, after a furiously quick build-out on N. Williams, Either/Or have opened a new expanded version of the concept: quality focused multi-roaster, but now with drinks, good wine, and food.
Taking It Easy At Melbourne’s Vacation Coffee
This week on Sprudge we’re turning our attention to Australia, where one of the world’s great coffee cultures is currently threatened by an unprecedented climate crisis. While you enjoy these features on Australia please also consider joining our coffee colleagues by donating to the Red Cross Bush Fire Relief Fund.
In Melbourne, Wines Of Adventure And Intrigue At Blackhearts & Sparrows
It’s a wine consumer tale as old as time: you need to buy a bottle of wine but you don’t necessarily know what you want or need, and you’re too scared to engage with the person working in a wine store for fear of condescension or ridicule. Maybe it’s because once upon a time you were scathingly shut down for not knowing that red Burgundy wine was always (or at least partially always) made from Pinot Noir grapes?
The Summertown Aristologist: A Natural Wine Restaurant In Adelaide Hills
It’s a hot, sunny day as I drive my friend’s little workhorse car through the winding roads of the Adelaide Hills, steadily making my way to the fabled natural wine wonderland known as The Summertown Aristologist, a little less than half an hour away from Adelaide city.
La Marzocco Cafe Announces Roasters In Residence For Year Three
The La Marzocco Cafe—the Sprudgie Award winning Seattle coffee shop and showroom inside the KEXP Studios—has announced their Year Three Roasters in Residence, and there’s a pretty signficant international bent to this year’s lineup. Like with previous years, each roaster gets to takeover the cafe for a month; this isn’t just a guest roaster spot, mind you, this is a wholesale change.
Vito Sportelli & Andrea Peconio Are Your Amsterdam Coffee Mixologist Champs
Coffee cocktail-making virtuosi Vito Sportelli and Andrea Peconio have been crowned champions at the 2018’s Coffee Mixologists tournament at Amsterdam Coffee Festival. The Italians battled seven other teams of two, across four rounds, over the three days of last month’s festival in Holland. Sponsored by Tia Maria, Sanremo, and Daarnhouwer in its second year, Coffee Mixologists is fast emerging as a major new competitive coffee event, and carries with it a sizable cash prize.
Philadelphia's ReAnimator Coffee Is Throwing Down For The ACLU
You know how every time you go see a Marvel movie you have to stay until the post-credits scene so you can see what the next Marvel movie will be? Well this is kind of like that, but for charity. Philadelphia’s ReAnimator Coffee, presumably still drunk off the stupid Eagles winning the Super Bowl, must have slept through the March 16th Night of 1,000 Pours event Sprudge facilitated nationwide, so they’re throwing a NoTP (No1P? NoKP?) addendum event this Friday, April 6th.
Passing The Bechdel Test At Barista Connect Melbourne
So often in specialty coffee—indeed, in most industries—the speaker scene at conferences, panels, and speaking events trends overwhelmingly male. All-male speaking line-ups are such a commonplace occurrence that a modified version of the Bechdel test comes to mind—is there actually one woman in the line-up? Is there more than one woman? Could two women conceivably have a conversation together on the panel stage? And would that conversation be about anything other than the work of a man?
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 when I say we’ve barely scratched the surface. We’re living in a time where having difficult conversations about our social climate are becoming unavoidable. They shouldn’t be avoided to begin with; people in the United States and beyond aren’t being afforded the most basic of rights in 2018.
The Barista League Kicks Off The 2018 Season This Saturday In Oslo
This Saturday in Oslo, The Barista League kicks off their 2018 season with another round of rambunctious, coffee skills-testing events. Now in its third year, The Barista League is taking place at Espresso Spesialisten featuring 12 teams of two, three rounds, and one very cool prize.
Join Counter Culture For The Grand Reopening Of Their DC Training Lab
If it feels like Counter Culture is everywhere, it’s because they are. With 12 training labs across the United States, they are one of the country’s most expansive coffee brands. And one of their oldest training labs is getting a refresh. After over a decade in existence, the Washington, DC lab has found a new home, and Counter Culture wants to share it with you this Friday and Saturday, March 23rd and 24th.
Authenticity And Curiousity: The Inaugural GROW Assembly In Melbourne
What do you get when you put a dairy CEO, coffee farmers from Australia and Brazil, and a reusable cup founder into a room along with key people behind the Melbourne specialty coffee scene? A lot of ideas, a few aired frustrations, some un-answered questions, and a hell of a lot of banter, if the GROW Assembly conference’s inaugural coffee-specific event, held at the Collingwood Coffee College, is anything to go by.
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 Hot Box Latte Art Throwdown at Visions Espresso in Seattle is still bringing the heat with some pretty serious prizes, including a Nuova Simonelli Oscar espresso machine. The Oscar, which is the namesake “hot box” for this throwdown (because it’s a box, that is hot.
Roasting Concepts: A Free Eight-Part Video Series From Cafe Imports
So you’ve decided you want to start roasting coffee. Great! But where do you go from there? Should you go gangbusters and buy a $60,000 roaster (you’ll grow into it right?) or maybe start small and just throw a few handfuls of green coffee on a skillet just to see how it goes? Well, before you do either, there’s a new video series from Cafe Imports you may want to check out.
Cafe Imports Legendary Coffee Tour Takes Poland And The Czech Republic
Europe, you’re up! Sprudge has teamed up with Cafe Imports and La Marzocco to host another round of the Legendary Coffee Tour, and this one takes place on the other side of the pond. The three-day tour kicks off Tuesday, February 13th in Warsaw, Poland before heading southwest to the Czech Republic for stops in Brno and Prague.
A Coffee Drinkers Guide To Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is a city that often takes a back seat to another Canadian city that starts with a V. But if being the capital of British Columbia isn’t enough to show off its pride, its coffee scene follows suit by delivering cafes and coffee quality to rival any other city, including its friendly competitor on the mainland.
Gawk At Cafebond.com's New Space In Singapore
You know what no one ever says about e-commerce businesses? “This build-out is bonkers.” You just click, click, click and that is that; it’s steamlined and a little boring. But there is one e-tail site has made the jump into click-and-mortar, and their build-out is bonkers. CafeBond.com is a Singapore-based e-tailer of specialty coffee from Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and Malaysia and they have just opened the ridiculously beautiful The Bean Shop in Singapore’s Millenia Walk mall.
The Ninth Annual Sprudgie Awards
Welcome to the announcement for the 9th Annual Sprudgie Awards, honoring the best in coffee. Nominees for each category were chosen by a worldwide public ballot. Public voting for the Sprudgies took place over several weeks in December 2017, with the ballot box closing at 11:59 PM on Sunday, December 31st. Thanks to the thousands and thousands of voters who helped make this by far the biggest voting field in Sprudgies history.
Red Brick Dream: Building A Coffee Community In Canberra
When Canberra, Australia’s capital city, comes up in conversation, it’s rarely in relation to specialty coffee. Politics? Sure. Art galleries? Why not! Coffee? Not so much. While this has been changing over the years with folks like Ona garnering a fair amount of attention due to Sasa Sestic’s World Barista Championship win in 2015, there is also a smaller, quieter coffee scene bubbling away in the background that’s no less impressive.
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