Pan Wei of Parking Coffee in China is the 2026 World Barista Champion. This is Pan Wei’s second time competing at the world level, after winning the 2021 China Barista Championship and placing 27 th ...

After the Liberation Day tariffs were deemed to be a failed experiment (read: unconstitutional), the US government was ordered to repay the over $100 billion they collected. The repayments began going ...

Sound wave are all the rage in coffee competitions these days, thanks mostly to 2025 World Barista Champion Jack Simpson who’s been using sound waves are part of his espresso prep for a few seasons ...

The fun in the sun has concluded. The days are shortening and everyone is moving inside for warmth. Which means that our time with the Build-Outs of Coffee has come to a close. Like the summer itself, ...

I’ve seen the future. An event will surely come to pass. Events really. I’ve seen them all at once, coalescing into a singularity like dirty water draining from a bathtub. The vision came to me while ...

Here we are, the Big Day, the culmination of a year’s worth of preparation. We’ve reached the Finals of the 2024 World Barista Championship. It started three days ago with 53 competitors from around ...

To the average consumer, few things seem more simple than a cup of coffee—just add water (and/or milk and sugar). For those of us on the other side of the equation, however, the feeling tends to be ...

I used to shy away from coffee-flavored goods, even when it comes to baking with coffee. I’ve been burned too many times to count by a “coffee-flavored” anything: it never tastes like the coffee I ...

We are delighted to welcome you to the official announcement of The Sprudge Twenty, presented by Sprudge and Pacific Barista Series. This is the eighth class of Sprudge Twenty honorees, part of an ...

Welcome to The Sprudge Twenty Interviews presented by Pacific Barista Series. For a complete list of 2024 Sprudge Twenty honorees, please visit sprudge.com/twenty ...

The coffee world was a very different place twenty years ago. This was before the infusion era of tech-industry investments, venture capital and consolidation; back then the specialty coffee industry ...