Coming off my first full pound of Ritual Roasters – Hacienda Carmona, Guatemala, now onto the Sweet Tooth Espresso – Yara Columbia. The Guatemalan was excellent, although I think that I’ve grown partial to Guatemalan coffees lately cause I keep writing about how much I like them. First it was the Los Espiritus and now this. In fact, I placed a follow-up order with Ritual yesterday and two of the three bags ordered were Guatemalan. I think that my liking of them lately has to do with them being somewhat all-purpose. They seem to go with everything and stand on their own very well. I don’t see that with other regional coffees lately, mostly African. Those have that in-your-face, COFFEE(!) sort of flavor, and if I’m not expecting that it can be a little overwhelming, especially Ethiopian coffees.

So, the Ritual Roasters – Hacienda Carmona, Guatemala. The beans were roasted very well, nice and milk chocolate brown and no extreme variance in the size of the beans. Pleased that I’ve found yet another roaster dedicated to the art of coffee and attention to detail when it comes to their product. These kinds of things are important when you’re paying a premium for good coffee. I don’t expect I would have ordered another three pounds from Ritual had the first order been somewhat lacking in quality. There wasn’t any variance from the first pot brewed to the last pot brewed, the beans held true through the whole batch. I didn’t expect them to vary, as I received the order about three days after roasting and finished up the first pound about five days after opening the bag.

I’m into the Sweet Tooth now and I can discern a difference between this and the Guatemalan. Not a bad one at all, I can just tell that it’s an espresso. I’ll report back once the rest of the second shipment from Ritual has been consumed, I expect all will be excellent.