Sprudge Maps Spotlight: Lot61 In Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lot61 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
View ArticleSchuurmanoomkensgrassotti!
If Schuurmanoomkensgrassotti is too much of a mouthful, consider calling this new Amsterdam venue what the three owners sometimes do: De Schuur. That’s shorthand for Schuurman, which is one of the...
View ArticleThe Coffee In Amsterdam’s “Coffeeshops” Has Never Been Better
You have to admit it’s getting better. So reports Karina Hof, a longtime Sprudge staff writer based in Holland, who has for years been fascinated by the disconnect between Amsterdam’s famed...
View ArticleIn Amsterdam, The Latest From Friedhats Coffee Is A Big FUKU
It’s true that 2018 WBC second runner-up Lex Wenneker and his business partner Dylan Sedgwick named their new cafe—FUKU—after the Japanese term for “good fortune.” If you speak with them, Wenneker, a...
View ArticleFrom Amsterdam, A New Soap Made Of Coffee Grounds And Orange Peels
Though there is no Ctrl-Z for much damage done to the Earth, there are ways to boost environmental sustainability. In this spirit, one product making a splash in and around the Netherlands is SOOP, a...
View ArticleDe Poezenboot! We Brought Coffee To Amsterdam’s Delightful Floating Cat Charity
Photo courtesy of Djaro G. “De Poezenboot. Goedemorgen?” That translates to “The Catboat. Good morning?” and it is how Judith, in a warm yet clearly down-to-business voice, answers the office phone....
View ArticleMore Coffee, Less Fossil Fuel: Bitter & Real Is The Netherlands’ Eco-Coffee...
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...
View ArticleBooth Beat: Our 5 Favorite Booths From World Of Coffee Amsterdam
Dutch winds blew chilly outside World of Coffee 2018, but inside, at the Amsterdam RAI convention center, June 20th to 23rd were hot-ticket days. Breaking records this year, nearly 11,000...
View ArticleTeaching Barista Skills To Refugees At A Beautiful Mess In Amsterdam
The last time Sprudge reported on how the coffee world was helping Syrian asylum seekers in the Netherlands, a simple, very human-level initiative was underway. The objective was to pair refugees and...
View ArticleVito 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...
View ArticleAmsterdam’s Café Keppler Is A Dream In Progress
At 37, Kees Kraakman is approaching two decades in specialty coffee. The Netherlands knows him as a whiz kid, first taught to cup and roast by Jacob Boot, father of the brothers who today head Boot...
View ArticlePatricia Coffee Liqueur Conjures The Spirit Of Amsterdam
Move over, game birds, big-antlered stags, coats of arms, fleurs-de-lis, and all that other usual liquor-bottle iconography. There’s a new booze in town, and the label says it all: Patricia, a 22.7...
View ArticleAmsterdam’s Fresh Crop Of Micro-Roasters
Roasting is no new business to the Netherlands. Corporate narratives of the country’s coffee behemoths—Douwe Egberts, Simon Lévelt, to name a couple—take pride in their centuries-long practice of the...
View ArticleBarista & Bartender Champs In Love Win Big
When news broke that a Coffee Mixologists competition would debut at the 2017 Amsterdam Coffee Festival, we could have guessed the winning duo would be half barista wunderkind and half cocktailer...
View Article3 Recipes & Countless Joys At The Dutch Aeropress Championship
As the full moon rose over Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek, a washed Rwandan bourbon ebbed and flowed in the cylinders of 36 coffee professionals vying for the title of Dutch AeroPress Champion 2017. But...
View ArticleDe Poezenboot! We Brought Coffee To Amsterdam’s Delightful Floating Cat Charity
Photo courtesy of Djaro G. “De Poezenboot. Goedemorgen?” That translates to “The Catboat. Good morning?” and it is how Judith, in a warm yet clearly down-to-business voice, answers the office phone....
View ArticleMore Coffee, Less Fossil Fuel: Bitter & Real Is The Netherlands’ Eco-Coffee...
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...
View ArticleBooth Beat: Our 5 Favorite Booths From World Of Coffee Amsterdam
Dutch winds blew chilly outside World of Coffee 2018, but inside, at the Amsterdam RAI convention center, June 20th to 23rd were hot-ticket days. Breaking records this year, nearly 11,000...
View ArticleTeaching Barista Skills To Refugees At A Beautiful Mess In Amsterdam
The last time Sprudge reported on how the coffee world was helping Syrian asylum seekers in the Netherlands, a simple, very human-level initiative was underway. The objective was to pair refugees and...
View ArticleVito 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...
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