Just when I thought I was out, the butter beat spoons me back in. I was content to hang up my top hat and monocle and leave coverage of the nexus of coffee and legume-based spreads to the next generation of hungry nut butterists, but when given the opportunity to take first scoops from the chaste nut butter news of the day, how could I refuse a dip?
It was a little over a year ago when we first reported that Big Spoon Coffee Roasters teamed up with Intelligentsia Coffee for a special release an espresso nut butter made with Black Cat espresso. But now the North Carolina-based artisanal butterist is back to one up their peanut, almond, and espresso spread (espreadso?). In collaboration with the Bay Areaโs Equator Coffees & Teas, Big Spoon has just announced the release of an almond hazelnut butter made with Equatorโs Tigerwalk Espresso.
Like with all of Big Spoonโs edible spreadables, the new collab is light on ingredients; itโs made up of only โfresh-roasted heirloom California Mission almonds, Oregon Barcelona and Clark variety hazelnuts, [raw organic] coconut crystals, [organic Madagascar] vanilla, [Vietnamese] cinnamon, and sea salt with Equator Coffees & Teasโ flagship Tigerwalk Espresso,โ per a press release.
The special release nut butter retails for $12.50 for a 10-ounce jar and can be purchased via Big Spoonโs and Equatorโs respective webstores. And starting today, for the next two weeks the Proof, Miller, Larkspur, and Fort Mason Equator locations will be offering $3 off a 12-ounce bag of Tigerwalk Espresso with any purchase of a jar of the nut butter collaboration.
For more information, visit Big Spoon’s official website. Or, you know, just buy a jar. Seems like everything you need to know is under that lid. It’s good to be back on the butter beat.
Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and butt nutter enthusiast.