Primavera is a specialty coffee roaster in Birmingham, Al. We roast our coffee by hand daily in a 15 kilo, gas-fired roaster. At Primavera, our goal is to purchase, roast, and deliver the finest coffee available. Along the way, we hope to help each of our customers see a clearer picture of the world of working hands from ground to grind. Our coffee will awaken your senses. Our mission is to awaken your sensibilities.
We roast all our coffees right here in our Cahaba Heights shop, where the friendly staff are also available to answer any questions you may have about coffee—from the production methods we use to ensure that our coffee surpasses all expectations, to the techniques you can use at home to brew the freshest, most excellent possible coffee.
Hours
Monday-Friday: 6:30 am to 6:00pm.
Saturday: 8:00 am to 6:00pm.
Sundays we are closed.
Location
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 like those that exist in the wine industry. […] Our goal at the Coffee Review is to entertain and educate coffee drinkers, food service professionals, and the coffee trade with a credible and easy-to-use coffee guide based on objective, blind reviews from some of the most experienced individuals in the specialty coffee industry.
-About Coffee Review
This month, we were privileged to have one of our personal favorites reviewed—our Kenya AA Estate Gituto, which received 93 out of the total 100 points. From a blind cupping of the coffee, the following tasting notes were recorded:
Exquisitely lyric aroma: flowers, tart cherry, honey, a suggestion of milk chocolate. In the cup sweet acidity and continued meadowy flower and flowering grass notes, honey, tart cherry, all of which carry into a delicate but ringing finish.
-Kenya AA Estate Gituto on Coffee Review
As usual, we are ecstatic about the review! Be sure to take a look at Coffee Review. Explore their wealth of coffee information when you have the chance.
Fear not. Our enthusiasm for cupping continues, just at a better time of day. Who wants to roll out of bed at 10:00 on a Saturday morning for an educational coffee experience? That’s right, but just imagine if all that education could be yours at the convenient hour of 2 in the afternoon. If that’s not a good deal, I don’t know what is. All that to say, from now on, our regularly scheduled weekly cuppings will carry on as regularly scheduled every Saturday, except for the minor time adjustment. Hope to see you there!
Alas! Last Friday’s Atlanta trip was not meant to be. We were scheduled to roll out of Primavera at 5:00. Around 4:00, tornado sirens started going off. Of course, this is no big deal in Birmingham, where a storm seems to blow through at least once a week; however, at approximately 4:45, tree branches & golf-ball-sized hail began to fly through the air. We sought cover inside the coffee shop, while some of the neighboring stores made a run for the basement. Within a matter of seconds, the entire world outside our windows had gone completely white.
Much to our delight, the chaos died down in a matter of minutes. Our parking lot looked as if someone had grabbed a couple of trees & thrashed them on the asphalt. The weather appearing to be under control, though, we piled into our cars, still planning on a little throwdown action. Fifteen minutes in, rain started beating down once again & we were sadly forced to admit that even if the storm blew over, the resulting traffic & ticking clock would be insurmountable obstacles.
We hope the Bikes to Rwanda Throwdown was a success on all levels! And, as always, more scheming is afoot among the Primaverans to point us back in the direction of Octane …
