Sprudge is an American

blog A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...

founded by Zachary Carlsen and Jordan Michelman and based in

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

, focusing on "coffee news and gossip". Founded in 2009, Sprudge is the flagship blog of the Sprudge Media Network. The Sprudge Media Network manages sister sites Sprudge Live and Sprudge Wire. In its first three months of existence, the website was called "The Sprudge Report" and a direct visual parody of the

Drudge Report The Drudge Report (stylized as DRUDGE REPORT) is a U.S.-based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge, and run with the help of Charles Hurt and Daniel Halper. The site was generally regarded as a conservative publication, though its o ...

. 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. In 2013, Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen received the Distinguished Author Award from the

Specialty Coffee Association of America The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), founded in 1982, was a non-profit trade organization for the specialty coffee industry. With members located in more than 40 countries, SCAA represented different segments of the specialty coffee ...

. The Sprudge Media Network was recognized as a 2017

Webby Award The Webby Awards are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over two thousand industry experts and technology innovators. Categories include ...

Honoree in the Cultural Blog/Website category. 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 Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California in 1971 by Phil Wood. Ten Speed Press was bought by Random House in February 2009 and is now part of their Crown Publishing Group division. History Wood worked with Barnes & N ...

, a division of

Penguin Random House Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House. On April 2, 2020, Bertels ...

. Sprudge teamed up with

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to curate the Roasters Village, an extension of the 2018 SouthBites Trailer Park food program at the festival.

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Sprudge Official Website
Coffee culture American blogs Internet properties established in 2009 Companies based in Portland, Oregon