In early August, Primavera was featured on the front page of the Birmingham News Food Section. We, the Primaverans, were very excited about sharing our passion for the roasted bean with the city! If you haven’t had a chance to check the article out yet, check it out now.
'Guatemala' Category
Things have been going slow, but good, here at Primavera…roasting, cupping, re-roasting…re-cupping. Today after cupping 10 different samples of our Organic Fair Trade Guatemalan, we nailed a great roast profile. Our High Grown Costa Rican took us 9 samples, but we nailed it too.
5 pounds of Guatemalan Huehue just out of […]
All 9 bags waiting for their turn to be roasted with care.
R&L Carriers paid us another visit today. The driver helped me roll the 150 pound bags into the Tacoma. I then rolled them out into the Radio Flyer “little red wagon” from the basement. I then carted them to there home […]
We moved into an apartment on Birmingham’s Southside yesterday. (Well the movING is still going on, I think we will be movED in full next week.)
1127 23rd Street South #A2
Birmingham, Al 35205
Just incase anyone wants to send us some goodies in the mail.
Havilah drove around the last several days getting fingerprinted, [...]
So we dropped the ball since Christmas on the updates… And yes we are back in Birmingham. But the post will continue!
I feel like we should somehow do a farewell Guatemala post. But I just don’t know how or what to write to sum up 5 months. It’s just too […]
The first thing that is required at the end of the day when all the workers have ceased picking is to weigh the kostales, or bags. Each bag of cherries then proceeds to be dumped into a large metal hopper and piped to a machine that pulps the cherries[Made in Columbia, belt driven […]
[coffeeresearch.com]
Two main species of coffee are cultivated today. Coffea arabica known as Arabica coffee accounts for 75-80% of the world’s production. Coffea canephora, known as Robusta coffee, is more robust than the Arabica plants, but produces an inferior tasting beverage with a higher caffeine content.
[end coffeeresearch.com]
Coffee farms have nurseries where the coffee is [...]
What can I say? Another post to say we haven’t been posting. DOH! Really, we have been Busy (with a capital ‘B’).
So we have gotten some super positive feedback from the Christmas coffee. I hope those we haven’t heard from enjoyed theirs as well.
We were able to [...]
We know the posts have been a little sparse. But we have been busy. I think from the page hits everyone else has been busy too. It is the busy time of the year.
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