Buy Our Book! The New Rules of Coffee Is Out Now On Ten Speed Press

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Buy my book! Buy my book! Jay Sherman had it right—you should buy our book, by which we mean The New Rules of Coffee, out now on Ten Speed Press and available wherever books are sold, but especially at fine cafes and book stores across the country.

Individual copies of The New Rules of Coffee are available now from the Sprudge Shop. They ship signed from the authors (Sprudge founders Jordan Michelman and Zachary Carlsen) and come with little swag surprises—a thank-you from us for picking up a copy or two.

Of course if you’re a cafe or bookseller, we’d love to see you stock wholesale copies of our book for your customers. Wholesale stockiest discounts are available by emailing books@sprudge.com—email operators are standing by. If your bookstore or cafe already has an account with Penguin Random House, ordering is as easy as contacting your local representative.

And right now you can pick up copies of our book at these fine bookshops across the country. Please note this is a selected list—if you don’t see a bookseller near you, ask them to stock it!

An Unlikely Story (Plainville, MA)

Avid Bookshop (Athens, GA)

Baker & Taylor (national distributor)

Barnes & Noble (national distributor)

Belmont Books (Belmont, MA)

Book Passage (Multiple Bay Area locations)

Book Shop Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, Ca)

Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, MA)

Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)

Buck’s Books (national distributor)

Chicago Comics (Chicago, IL)

Curious Iguana (Frederick, MD)

East Bay Booksellers (Oakland, CA)

King’s Books (Tacoma, WA)

The Book Larder (Seattle, WA)

Literatti (Ann Arbor, MI)

Magic City Books (Tulsa, OK)

Mercenary General Store (Santa Monica, CA)

Now Serving (Los Angeles, CA)

Omnivore Books (San Francisco, CA)

Paper Store Inc. (national distributor)

Papyrus (national distributor)

Politics & Prose (Washington, D.C.)

Powell’s (Portland, OR)

Solid State Books (Washington, D.C.)

Stock Providence (Providence, RI)

Tender Loving Empire (Portland, OR)

Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)

University Bookstore (Seattle, WA)

We also are thrilled to have our book stocked in these fine coffee bars across the United States. This is a partial and ever-growing list—if you don’t see your cafe, get in touch!

Stumptown Coffee Roasters (PDX, NYC, LA, Seattle)

All Day (Miami)

Joe Coffee (NYC)

Olympia Coffee Roasting Company

Indaba Coffee (Spokane, WA)

Elixr Coffee (Philadelphia, PA)

Narrative Coffee (Everett, WA)

Saint Frank (San Francisco, CA)

Mill City Coffee Roasters (Minneapolis, MN)

Gimme! Coffee (New York State)

Case Coffee (Ashland, OR)

Reanimator Coffee (Philadelphia, PA)

Snowy Owl Coffee Roasters (Brewster, MA)

We’ve been overwhelmed by support and love for The New Rules all across America on our book tour, coming soon to a city near you, with upcoming dates across California and the midwest. If you’re interested in hosting us for an upcoming book tour stop, kindly give a holler. 

Are you selling our book? Reach out to us! 

Want to sell our book in your quality cafe? Give us a shout! 

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Galleria Concord Gardens

Galleria by Concord Pacific is a new transit community located at No.3 Road and Capstan Way in Richmond. This project in inspired by art and technology, and includes spa-inspired bathrooms, Miele appliances, and a unique art facility area for children. Located just steps away from a 2-acre neighbourhood park, Galleria brings contemporary living to a park-side setting. 

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Bye-aletti: The Death Of The Moka Pot?

Sometimes real life is scarier than fiction. The Moka Pot, arguably one of the most iconic pieces of coffee equipment to be created in the last century, is in danger of being no more.

According to EuroNews, the stovetop coffee maker—your grandparents’ favorite coffeemaker that they love to bring up when they find out you are into coffee—from Italian manufacturer Bialetti is facing a decline in sales as consumers are making the switch to the convenience of capsule machines. The company recently announced measures to “tackle a €68 million debt amid ‘significant doubts’ about its ‘business continuity.'” The company admits to a €15.3 million loss over the first half of the year due to declining sales both in Italy and abroad.

And it’s not that people are drinking less coffee, they are just switching how they make it.

“When it comes to large-scale distribution, sales of the capsules are growing rapidly while sales of ground coffee for the moka are declining, even here in Italy where 70% of families have a moka in their home,” said Francesca Arcuri, communications director for Italian coffee company Filicori Zecchini.

Sales of the Moka Pot saw 5% decrease during 2017, the same timeframe where capsules had a 16.8% jump in sales.

Will this be the end of the Moka Pot, and with it the end of stovetop coffee itself? [EDITORS NOTE: SPRUDGE COFOUNDER ZACHARY CARLSEN WOULD LIKE TO ONCE AND FOR ALL DISPEL THE MISCONCEPTION THAT MOKA POTS ARE PERCOLATORS. “DIFFERENT BREW MECHANICS ENTIRELY,” CARLSEN TELLS SPRUDGE] Will these sturdy and once ubiquitous brewers go quietly into that good night, becoming actual coffee heirlooms and not just coffee junk you find at antique stores? And for what? Capsules? Now that’s truly terrifying.

But we want to know, do you have feelings about this news? Sound off in the comments below.

Zac Cadwalader is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.

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Camber Is Popping Up At Coffee Hall During The LA Coffee Festival

We are just one short week away from the start of the Los Angeles Coffee Festival (and the RAW WINE Fair LA, which will be covered by our sister site Sprudge Wine; the Sprudge Media Network is going to be in a full-on beverage frenzy). And like any coffee festival worth its salt, there are going to be fun, non-festival happenings outside the 100,000-square-foot Magic Box convention center. One such event that Sprudge is proud to be a part of is bringing some great tastes from the Pacific Northwest to the City of Angels. Taking place Saturday, November 10th, Bellingham’s Camber Coffee is taking over Coffee Hall Chinatown for a full-day pop-up of doughnuts, competition, and a splash or two of natural wine.

The day kicks off at 10:00am with a little help from Seattle’s General Porpoise, who will be providing the “doughnut” portion of Camber’s Coffee + Doughnut (and ping-pong) festivities. With a little help from a few Dayglow baristas, Camber will be offering pairings of a rose cardamom iced latte and vanilla custard doughnut as well as a mulled spice latte with lemon curd doughnut.

Then at 5:00pm, the gloves are coming off and the spoons are coming out for a Guess The TDS cupping. For a $5 buy-in, attendees will be able to participate in the triangulation cupping competition where they will have to pick out which cup of each set of three has a slightly different TDS than the rest. The grand prize for the Guess The TDS cupping is a Ratio Eight brewer, with other prizes including a gold Acaia Pearl scale, a Baratza Virtuoso grinder, a matte white Fellow Stagg EKG kettle, and a ton of goodies from Camber.

Once all the dust has settled from the rip-roaring, sip-slurping action, things are going to get considerable more chill with a natural wine happy hour. Starting at 7:00pm, a donation wire bar featuring a nice list from Amy Atwood Selections—provided by Oatly—will take over the space. Wines include Swick Wine‘s WB Pinot Noir, Holden’s Pretty Things Rosé, Chateau Barouillet’s Splash!, and Dufaitre’s Prémices 2017. All proceeds from the wine bar will go to Ground for Health, a non-profit organization working to treat and prevent cervical cancer in coffee origins.

There are going to be so many cool things happening the weekend of November 10th in LA, but make sure you stop by Camber’s pop-up at Coffee Hall and have a splash with your friends at Sprudge. Because if there’s coffee and natural wine, you know we’ll be there.

Zac Cadwalader is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.

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Grey Poupon

Swamp Sparrow

I have a heated hoodie by Milwaukee that Alan bought me about three years ago. I love it. Even with the heat function turned off it is warm, roomy, and super comfortable. It's also in the washing machine just now.

You see, it is the perfect shade of grey for going birding....kinda blends in with everything else this time of year.

Thus yesterday I did a wonderful long, long walk on the farm, way up to the Old Pasture Lot and Old Spreader Field.

There were about a bazillion birds, including hundreds at the spring in the field behind the barn, the place I call my "hot spot" since I have seen so many goodies there.

Just one of the many fruit bats European Starlings there

Everyone, particularly myriad robins and starlings, was feeding on vitis riparia.

A distant Eastern Bluebird

We have a lot of that festooning everything that will hold it upright, and even running along the ground. The trees at the spring are dark purple with a veritable cornucopia of so much fruit you could fill a silo were you so inclined.

Birds eating grapes and flying overhead resulted in the title of this post, which you will find above.

 I guess I should be glad they weren't eating grape shot or cannonballs. 

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In Brasília, Casa Quilha Is A Space For Makers

Casa Quilha is a place to come and linger with a coffee—or beer. Whether you want to read a book, meet a friend, or have a gathering, the great atmosphere and the cheery founders welcome you. Partners Luciana Araújo (former partner at Objeto Encontrado), Ricardo Theodoro, Kauê Blass, and Bruno Terra undeniably gave life to the somewhat uncharted part of Brasilia their cafe calls home.

“We wanted it to be a home, for us, our customers, and our projects,” Araújo says. She is in charge of the kitchen and the coffee bar. She has a passion for coffee, but now is also giving room to other passions, such as cooking—many of the cafe’s recipes are hers—and soon, possibly, sewing. Yes, sewing—Casa Quilha is meant to host its partners’ “makers” projects. The below-ground floor houses Theodoro’s woodwork atelier, showcasing beautiful Imbuia pieces, and the second floor will soon be used as Araújo’s atelier. The idea is to focus on sewing, but that might change too, following Casa Quilha’s natural pace. Araújo prefers to keep the mystery.

Casa Quilha is located in an area where there are many mechanic workshops, but no cozy cafes.

“It was just perfect,” says Araújo. “In the end of the street you suddenly bump into a cafe heaven, you see dogs, bikes, children running outside. It doesn’t resemble other cafes in the capital.” In fact, Casa Quilha doesn’t look like Brasília at all. Being a modernist planned city, all of Brasília’s commercial locations sort of look the same. It’s very difficult to make a place feel unique. But Casa Quilha figured it out naturally, with a public square acting as its backyard. “Everything felt just right, plus the rent prices here were way more affordable,” Araújo says. Casa Quilha’s is a mixed block, where there are houses and local commerces antithetical to the capital’s original planning.

Everything served at the cafe is made in-house. Don’t dare leave without trying their dark and white chocolate cookie, perhaps the best in Brazil, and the lime and almond cake, a recipe by Blass. Casa Quilha serves a salt smoked with Imbuia wood offcuts—courtesy of Theodoro—which is used to smoke salmon that tops bruschetta. Theodoro’s woodwork is everywhere, from the benches to the balcony to the storefront, and many of his pieces are for sale. In fact, demand has been so high he can’t keep up. “It’s been really amazing, people come for coffee and end up taking a piece of art home,” Araújo says.

Although the cookies and the cake are already the house’s signatures, Casa Quilha’s menu will change seasonally. They are listening to their customers’ needs and will adapt however feels natural for them and for their community. The menu will grow and change as Casa Quilha’s partners grow and change as well.

“We have a backbone menu that is fixed, which are the hot drinks, cakes, sandwiches, and cookies, and the rest will evolve and change with time,” Araújo says. This is in part because Casa Quilha is a place made of connections—with suppliers and customers. The coffee used is sourced by Aha! Cafés, the first quality-focused micro-roastery in Brasilia. João Pedro Freitas, one of Aha! Cafés’ partners, even authored a drink recipe to be served at Casa Quilha: the Zest Brew. It’s a double shot of espresso, lemon juice, ginger syrup, gin, and lime zest, and has already become part of the fixed drinks menu.

“We do our best to follow our suppliers and respect their timing. Some things that we serve are cyclical, such as our kombucha, ceramics, and coffee. Everything must follow its seasonality, and will change accordingly. That’s the beauty of it,” Araújo says. The goods sold at Casa Quilha rotate too. At any given time, you’ll find them selling anything from preserves to natural cosmetics to ceramics to tiles, all made by local “makers” who are close to Quilha’s founders. 

“It’s not that we specifically chose to sell this jewelry here, for example,” Araújo says. “It’s the supplier’s philosophy that matched ours, therefore making it a fit to be sold here.” As for Casa Quilha’s in-house ceramics, they’re made by Araújo’s mom, and each piece is slightly different from the last.

Araújo doesn’t own a car, and only rides her bike in the capital. Casa Quilha encourages customers to do the same: they offer a free espresso—or cookies, depending on the day—for customers who come riding their bikes. Fellow partner Terra is also “pro-bike,” and works with issues of urban mobility. Casa Quilha’s bike rewards are intended to be a small solution for Brazil’s dependence on fossil fuels, as well as its frequent economic and political-based fuel shortages.

“We need to rethink our transportation options, and by offering an espresso we are trying, little by little, to incentivize that,” Araújo says.

Once a week, Casa Quilha promotes a Happy Hour celebration and stays open until 10pm. You come for the coffee and stay for the beer, and the vibe. And the incredible cookies. Don’t forget the cookies.

Casa Quilha is located at SCLRN 716, Bloco F, loja 4. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Juliana Ganan is a Brazilian coffee professional and journalist. Read more Juliana Ganan on Sprudge.

Photos by Ricardo Theodoro.

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