What’s spinning ↗
Roasted loud. Played slow.

Coffee worth slowing down for.

Small-batch coffee by day. Hi-fi vinyl sessions after dark. Come for a cup, stay for side B.

Meet the roast ↘ See listening sessions
Ethiopia / GujiColombia / HuilaKenya / NyeriGuatemala / HuehuetenangoBrazil / Cerrado Ethiopia / GujiColombia / HuilaKenya / NyeriGuatemala / HuehuetenangoBrazil / Cerrado
From somewhere real

Coffee has an address.

We buy coffees we can talk about without hiding behind tasting-note poetry. Each release starts with place, producer and process — then we roast to keep the good stuff intact.

Current rotation: four lots, four different personalities. No house blend pretending to be everybody’s best friend.

01Ethiopia / Natural

Guji Day Glow

Peach, bergamot, cocoa nib.

02Colombia / Washed

Huila Easy Does It

Red apple, panela, almond.

03Kenya / Washed

Nyeri Blue Hour

Blackcurrant, grapefruit, brown sugar.

04Brazil / Natural

Cerrado Low Key

Hazelnut, milk chocolate, dried cherry.

Now playing · side A

At 6pm, the room changes key.

Lights lower. Laptops close. The turntable gets louder — not club loud, listen-to-that-bassline loud. Our evening sessions are built around full albums, guest selectors and no-pressure hanging out.

Hi-fi, not high volume.Warm sound, conversation still possible.
Whole records.We like albums enough to let them finish.
Guest selectors.Local DJs, collectors and musicians take over the shelf.
No algorithm.You may hear something you didn’t already know you liked.
Upcoming sessions

Put it
on the record.

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SEP
25

Thursday · 7–10pm

Blue Note After Dark

A three-hour drift through jazz, hard bop and the records that made a rainy night feel useful.

Free / RSVP ↗
SEP
28

Sunday · 5–8pm

Bring One, Play One

Bring a record. Pick a side. Tell us why it matters. We handle the coffee.

$5 seat ↗
OCT
03

Friday · 8–11pm

Guest Select: Nia Vale

Soul, Brazilian grooves, broken beat and whatever Nia found in the dollar bin that afternoon.

$10 / RSVP ↗
OCT
10

Friday · 7–10pm

Album Club: Side B

One record, front to back, followed by a room full of opinions nobody asked us to suppress.

Free / RSVP ↗
Why Afterglow

Built for lingering.

Afterglow started with two obsessions that reward attention: coffee and records. Both get worse when rushed, overprocessed or treated like background noise.

So we made a place with no drive-thru, no 48-item menu and no urge to get you back out the door in eleven minutes.

1Small-batch roasting, done in the room behind the bar.
2Seasonal coffees chosen for clarity, sweetness and character.
3Evening listening sessions for people who still enjoy doing one thing at a time.
Come find us

Coffee now.
Records later.

218 Juniper Street
Fictional Arts District, GA 30000

Monday–Thursday7am–9pm Friday7am–11pm Saturday8am–11pm Sunday8am–8pm