January 2012
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Primavera Coffee in Cahaba Heights merges with... →
Great article in the Birmingham News about our merger with @octanecoffee thanks to fine reporting by @martyswant
August 2009
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Coffee Stout →
Folks are loving the Good People Coffee Stout with our Peru Norte in it.
“Next, I tried their coffee oatmeal stout. Folks, when they say coffee, they mean it! I LOVED this beer. The coffee flavors were precise and focused. They were true coffee flavors and they were in your face. They were GOOD coffee flavors, too. I thought I was at a gourmet coffee shop drinking some cup of joe that...
July 2009
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4th of July
Primavera will be open from 8am to 2pm on the 4th. There will not be a cupping. Hope to see everyone bright and early!
April 2009
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On Coffee - Hungry Magazine →
Lengthy piece on the price of coffee. Runs the gamut from reviewing Starbucks new “VIA Ready Brew” instant coffee to remarking on Intelligentsia boss Doug Zell’s statements that prices were raised because he wanted his coffee to be more appreciated, to be approached more carefully.
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How Stumptown's Duane Sorenson Plans to Save New... →
New York Magazine’s profile on Stumptown coffee’s recent entrance into the NYC market.
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Tea & Coffee Trade: Thinking Outside the Box, and... →
Primavera Coffee in Good People beer. Both in The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal.
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Local coffee houses offer fresh, new alternatives... →
Expressions article in the Samford Crimson featuring Primavera and Urban Standard.
Brian and Trevor at it again…getting their butts handed to them at day 2 of the WBC…handling crisis like it was their job…many deaths…yet a fantastic experience nonetheless…
Brian recounting his day…”Ive had so much coffee…..” The SCAA doesn’t dissapoint.
WBC and Primavera
Brian is pulling shots of Primavera espresso outside the WBC at the Daterra booth! Go see him for a ‘spro fix.
Store Hours
We have updated weekday hours. 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
We are still open Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 pm and closed on Sundays.
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Bar Adjustments
In efforts to keep our bar menu as uncluttered and quality driven as our general approach to coffee, we are streamlining our drink offerings a bit. The Medium size of coffees, teas, lattes, and mochas has been eliminated, and the capacity of the Small size has been increased to 10 ounces. The Large remains a 16 ounce drink. Ordering now presents less cognitive load—simply Small or Large.
For more...
March 2009
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Remembrance of Espresso Past →
The beautifully restored 1972 La Marzocco GS2 espresso machine that will grace Intelligentsia’s soon to open Venice, California location.
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Borgia
In modern American café parlance, a Borgia is typically some sort of orange and chocolate flavoured espresso beverage. Our particular incarnation is a ten ounce, orange essence infused version of our Mocha. As nearly as our extensive internet researching can discover, the name must come from that illustrious Spanish-Italian family whose infamy dates back to the Renaissance. The sound of the name...
February 2009
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Cupping a few Ethiopia Beloya micro-lots. Fantastic!
January 2009
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Find your legislators — Free The Hops →
Join other volunteers in contacting your state legislators to give voice to Free The Hops, the grassroots, non-profit organization attempting to overturn Alabama’s prohibition era laws which inadvertently make illegal most styles of exquisite craft beer. Use this resource to find the the state legislators who represent your address. Also includes contact information for the legislators as...
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Heart Brakes Prom Benefit — Bici Cooperative →
Alleycat bike race on Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 7:00pm with after-party at Greencup Books; we are helping to sponsor this, the first fund raising event for Bici Coop, a new community bicycle shop created to provide resources for affordable maintenance and education in effort to foster equal access to cycling. After-party to feature entertainment by Andy’s Tea Party and DJ Nastique as...
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Urban Standard →
Urban Standard would be the fantastic cafe found downtown on 2nd Ave N. In addition to delicious sandwiches, salads, and soups, they are known to serve some really good [Primavera] coffee. Check their blog for upcoming shows and other announcements.
December 2008
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New Years Day
To whom it may concern: we will be open all day New Years Eve but closed on New Years Day, reopening Friday.
Wed. 31 Dec: 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Thur. 1 Jan: closed
Fri. 2 Jan: 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM
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Holiday Notes
Open: We will be open for our normal hours on Christmas Eve. So stock up on last minute gifts and fresh coffee to brew for guests from 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM on 24 December.
Closed: We will be closed Christmas day and the 2 days following; 25 December - 27 December. We will resume our normal hours on Monday 29 December at 6:30 AM.
Gifts: In addition to our spectrum of fine coffees (currently 15...
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Home brew: Special coffees, locally roasted, worth... →
Article on specialty coffee, found in print on the front page of the Food section of the 17 Dec. Birmingham News. Heavily features information from us, including a few photographs in our shop. Nice to see a brief explanation of the complex rational behind our green coffee buying decisions—not being stuck on labels allows us to pay farmers more than Fair Trade prices and to source heirloom...
November 2008
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Beyond Starbucks - Coffee Shops Overflow, but Will... →
Article on the emergence of small, simple, quality oriented, artisanal coffee shops in New York City.
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Handcrafted Mugs
Circa Ceramics is a studio located in Chicago which fashions all manner of vibrantly colored ceramic objects, each ornamented with gocco line art decals. Among their assortment of hand made goods are beautifully functional twelve ounce coffee mugs; in addition to looking fantastic, the mugs have a wonderful shape and heft that both feels perfect in the hand and helps to retain the heat of the hot...
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Dueces Wild Alleycat presented by Brocycle →
Bicycle messenger inspired race with checkpoints — Linn Park, 4PM, Saturday 15 Nov.
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Bama Cross
Cyclocross is a style of bicycling that originated with early 20th century French road racers training in the off seasons of fall and winter. Perhaps best described as a cycling steeplechase, cyclocross courses involve portions both on and off road with steep hills, stairs, and other obstacles. Due to the racing seasons and the off road portion of courses, cyclocross is strongly associated with...
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Moss Rock Festival →
Celebrating nature and open spaces through art and design at The Preserve in Hoover — 10 AM - 5 PM, 1 - 2 Nov. Rumor has it that delicious and sustainable Primavera Coffee will be present on Saturday, though in liquid form only if electricity availability is allowing.
October 2008
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Bama Cross →
The Alabama Cyclocross series. We are a presenting sponsor for the 2008 season!
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Dia de los Muertos Festival presented by Bare... →
6th annual celebration honoring the traditional Hispanic festival and day of remembrance — 1 - 10 PM, Sunday 2 Nov.
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Downtown Hoe Down! presented by TONIGHT WE RIDE →
Fixed gear contests and cookout — 3PM, Sunday 2 Nov.
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Oatmeal Coffee Stout
The Oatmeal Coffee Stout is a newly released beer from Good People Brewing Company, the local brewery located in Five Points South, as part of a collaboration with Free the Hops, the organization working to revise Alabama’s nonsensical prohibition era beer laws. The stout features late additions of our Peru Norté coffee in addition to hops, both of which give the beer more flavours and depth...
September 2008
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in Bogotá. at a pub drinking Duvel on tap. a Ducati just pulled away. Lynyrd Skynyrd is blaring.
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Labour Day
Yes, it’s true, we did not work on this day. We did post a contemporaneous sign relating as much on the door, but alas this did nothing to stem the wasted trip and subsequent crushing disappointment. We really meant to post advance warning here on interweb but an inadvertent error of remembrance seems to have caused a malfunction in the execution of that endeavor. We are very sorry, and do...
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Chemically Imbalanced - primavera’s harar →
Atlanta based espresso jogged screeds blog tries our Ethiopian Harar. Records some great flavor notes on the coffee, along with what may just be our favorite cupping description ever- “like a hot fruited milkshake that sort of makes you elongate your swallows — for extended tastiness enjoyment!”
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let it flow... - southern drawl →
Jon Lewis visited the Southeast, and came by our shop when he was in Birmingham. Jon runs Long Story Short Coffee, a beautifully unique quality focused coffee shop on wheels most often found in the farmers’ market of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
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Coffee And Hops and Paint Flavors, Oh My →
Danner Kline of Free the Hops fame on cupping our coffee and his hops (together!) as part of his designing a Coffee Oatmeal Stout to be be brewed at Good People Brewing. After several tastings, we all agreed the Peru Norte would work best in the beer. We are quite excited at the prospect of a beer containing our coffee!
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Good People Brewing Company →
New local craft brewery operating out of what was formerly the brewery portion of the Mill in Five Points.
July 2008
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cupping various pairings of coffee and hops
happy from confirming that after all these years Jonathan Ford still dances constantly in his amazing way whenever playing bass
enjoys a Johnny Cash day
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Primavera Coffee Roasters | Facebook →
We’re on Facebook now!
dismantling the McWane Center’s abused Synesso to give it the care it deserves
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Birmingham Unite
Last Thursday night the Primavera posse again descended upon Atlanta’s Octane Coffee Bar & Lounge to participate in another Thursday Night Throwdown. We are happy to relate that once again our proprietor, Mr. Brett Burton, edged out the competition with a beautiful traditional rosetta latte to take first place. We are equally proud to announce that another of our baristas, Mr. Brian...
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the Fourth
We will be closed Friday 4 July to celebrate Independence Day with good food, leisurely time spent with friends and family, and hopefully some fireworks.
Should you find yourself in a bean emergency, remember that many of our coffees are available in 12 ounce bags at the Whole Foods on 280.
Our normal hours will resume on Saturday 5 July at 8:00 am. Enjoy the holiday!
April 2008
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Coffee Review
In February of 1997, Ken Davids & Ron Walters collaborated to form Coffee Review, with the goal of serving as an expertly produced educational resource about fine coffees. It has since become the most respected coffee buying guide in the world. As they put it:
The concept was simple: conduct blind, expert cuppings of coffees and report the findings in the form of 100-point reviews, much...
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Kenya AA Estate Gituto on Coffee Review →
Our Kenya AA Estate reviewed by THE Ken Davids at CoffeeReview.com. It got a 93!