Zac Cadwalader

1 week ago | sprudge.com | Zac Cadwalader

Sabrina Carpenter is the queen of the coffee tie-in. The Grammy Award-winning singer of 2024’s song of the summer—if not the whole year—Espresso has collaborated on coffee ice cream, a coffee pop-up with Verve, even a coffee perfume. Which, if I write a song with over two billion spins on Spotify and another 377 million on YouTube, you better believe I’m cashing in on even the most loosely-related word associations that I can.

1 week ago | sprudge.com | Zac Cadwalader

There is no greater uncertainty in the world of coffee right now than that of tariffs—which is really saying something—in part because the status of the tariffs themselves is uncertain. The US government has instituted global tariffs then rescinded them then added them back and increased them; whether or not there will be added taxes on imported goods feels day to day. As the largest consumer and importer of coffee, the tariffs or threat thereof have added chaos to the supply chain.

1 week ago | sprudge.com | Zac Cadwalader

The 2026 coffee calendar is already beginning to take shape with not one but two event announcements from the Specialty Coffee Association this week. First up was the one-two punch news that San Diego, California was going to host the 2026 SCA Expo. Except that that isn’t exactly right. The second part of the announcement was that Expo is rebranding and will now be brought in line with the World of Coffee nomenclature used for the event series everywhere outside of the United States.

2 weeks ago | sprudge.com | Zac Cadwalader

There is perhaps no greater representation of the late-Aughts Millennial je ne sais quoi than that of indie outfit Bon Iver. Just a dude in a cabin with a bunch of musical instruments working through a bad case of pneumonia and an even worse bout of heartache. Almost overnight, Justin Vernon’s falsetto became the soundtrack of specialty coffee shops across the country. Skinny Love for skinny lattes. And now, Millennial ennui is back in and so too is Bon Iver.

2 weeks ago | sprudge.com | Zac Cadwalader

With the threat of climate change ever-looming over the coffee industry, Stenophylla is of particular interest. Populations of the coffee species were originally discovered—or rediscovered—in Sierra Leone in 2019 by Dr. Aaron Davis of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Dr. Jeremy Haggar of the University of Greenwich, which had not been seen in the wild since 1954.