Sprudge

Sprudge is an American blog founded by Zachary Carlsen and Jordan Michelman and based in Portland, Oregon, focusing on "coffee news and gossip".[1]

Sprudge
Type of site
Blog
OwnerDolcepump LLC
URLsprudge.com
CommercialYes
LaunchedSeptember 2009
Current statusActive

Founded in 2009,[2] Sprudge is the flagship blog of the Sprudge Media Network. The Sprudge Media Network manages sister sites Sprudge Live and Sprudge Wire.[3] In its first three months of existence, the website was called "The Sprudge Report"[4] and a direct visual parody of the Drudge Report.[5][6]

Sprudge came under scrutiny after publishing the name of an anonymous author of a blog titled "The Bitter Barista", resulting in the termination of the author's job.[7][8][9]

In 2013, Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen received the Distinguished Author Award from the Specialty Coffee Association of America.[10]

The Sprudge Media Network was recognized as a 2017 Webby Award Honoree in the Cultural Blog/Website category.[11]

In 2018, Michelman and Carlsen co-wrote The New Rules of Coffee: A Modern Guide For Everyone, an illustrated guide to coffee published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Penguin Random House.[12]

Sprudge teamed up with South by Southwest to curate the Roasters Village, an extension of the 2018 SouthBites Trailer Park food program at the festival.[13]

References
  1. "Bitter Barista Fired Over Satirical Blog".
  2. "Interview with one co-founder of Sprudge - by The Coffeevine". 21 December 2015.
  3. "About - Sprudge Wire".
  4. "Crawling forth in 2010... - barista magazine's blog". 2010-01-07. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  5. "SPRUDGE REPORT 2009". 2009-09-12. Archived from the original on 2009-09-12. Retrieved 2016-08-01.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. "Pull up a Chair: a Conversation with the Editors of Sprudge". 2012-08-25. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  7. "Bitter Barista loses job over snarky blog about customers, boss". 11 February 2013.
  8. "Bitter Barista Fired for Blog Brew-Haha". ABC News.
  9. "Seattle barista fired over bitter blog that rips customers, boss - Fox News". 12 February 2013.
  10. "Specialty Coffee Association of America Announces Recipients of 2013 Recognition Awards - The Specialty Coffee Chronicle".
  11. "Sprudge Media Network - The Webby Awards".
  12. "The New Rules of Coffee by Jordan Michelman, Zachary Carlsen - PenguinRandomHouse.com".
  13. "The Buzzy New Addition to SXSW's Food Lineup This Year - Food and Wine".
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