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Kees van der Westen: The Sprudge Interview
Kees van der Westen is a Dutch brand known for high-end, high-precision espresso machines that are as elegant in their retro-sleek design as they are edgy. In the US, the allure of the cult-status...
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Zink Design: Custom Espresso Machines From Holland
La Marzocco has described its ubiquitous Linea Classic as “a tried and true machine” that is “carefully designed to blend into any setting.” Sometimes that kind of staid stainless steel finish is what...
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Top Recipes From The 2016 Dutch AeroPress Championship
March 19 marked the last day of winter in the Netherlands and the steamiest night of the year for filter coffee enthusiasts. It was the Dutch AeroPress Championship, hosted for a third time by Coffee...
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10 Incredible Moments From The Amsterdam Coffee Festival
The Amsterdam Coffee Festival was a hot ticket, this year taking place from March 18 to 20 in the Westergasfabriek. The former gas factory is better known in the Dutch capital’s history as a place for...
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Coffee & Food Geniuses Scandinavian Embassy Pop Up At The London Coffee Festival
The 2016 edition of the London Coffee Festival was the biggest yet, packed with cafe pop-ups, two giant coffee competitions, innovative product launches, art galleries, DJs, and much more. But one of...
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Fall In Love With Amsterdam’s Sweet Cup
Once upon a time, in the canal-ribboned village of Amsterdam, in an era when Starbucks was opening its first fully owned store in the city and Adele was crooning “Someone Like You” across airwaves,...
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Kees van der Westen’s See-Thru Espresso Pre-Infusion Perfection Contraption
Kees van der Westen, the man, may be camera-shy, but the newest engineering development for his Spirit and Speedster espresso machines proved most photogenic in Dublin this week. Making its global...
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Support For Syrian Refugees (And A Cup Of Coffee)
When Holland Sam boarded the small boat with 44 other people, he didn’t know if he would make it. He could swim, very well in fact, but not all the way from Turkey to Greece. Though he’d endured...
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Heavy Metal Coffee In An Old Dutch Prison At The Village Wolvenplein
The eerie grandeur found downtown in the cities of Old Europe is due to the fact that every centimeter is steeped in history. In the Netherlands, it’s a given that a place of contemporary popular...
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The Coffee Sprudgecast European Tour: Live From Amsterdam
Over two weeks in June 2016, Sprudge founders Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen embarked on a far-flung coffee podcast tour of Europe, taping episodes of the Coffee Sprudgecast in four different...
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Nice Package: Keen Coffee in Enkhuizen, The Netherlands
Keen Coffee, a coffee roaster out of the Netherlands, is making a splash in the coffee world as it nears its one-year anniversary. In March, the company debuted their packaging at the Amsterdam Coffee...
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Dutch Treats: The Many Coffee Candies Of The Netherlands
Observers of exports in European carbohydrate exotica will have noticed that the stroopwafel is now a specialty food staple. From Starbucks counters to Delta tray tables, from a cafe in Portland to a...
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The Spoils Of Work: Dedication & Success At Trakteren In Amsterdam
Edward Beumer (left) and Erik Oosterhuis at Trakteren. A friend who once taught English to KLM flight attendants found them exceptionally wide-eyed and eager, perhaps because most were in the very job...
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Coffee’s History Blooms At Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanical Garden
You may remember from social studies class that it was the Dutch who first brought coffee to Europe in quantity. But did you also know of the pivotal role Amsterdam played in coffee’s circulation not...
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10 Memorable Moments From The Amsterdam Coffee Festival
The Netherlands’ annual coffeepalooza filled factory-turned-funhouse Westergasfabriek back in March 2017. Part trade show and part barista tournament, the 2017 Amsterdam Coffee Festival had plenty of...
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3 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...
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Barista & 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...
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Amsterdam’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...
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Patricia 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...
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Amsterdam’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...
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