Coffee Plant Roasters - Guatemala La Esperanza

This coffee should win an award. For what, you might ask? For the prize of being the first coffee to be posted to this blog while I'm still consuming it. Yay, give it a round of applause, it's earned it.

Anyways, this is another one from CPR, and the fourth from Guatemala. It comes from La Esperanza, in the Quetzaltenango department. I've got no facts about it. It's wikipedia pages are sparse, and most searches just bring up coffee roasters selling their wares. Though that does mean other people also consider it worth drinking.

Now, since I'm currently working my way through this bag of coffee, it'd be safe to say I have tasting notes of it. And...I don't. If nothing crazy stands out, it gets listed as "tastes like coffee." It also doesn't help that it is consumed at work, where my priorities are not detailed tasting notes, but, rather, work. Maybe I'll remedy this, maybe I won't. If I do, it'll end up being an edit at the end of the post.

Wandering Goat - Guatemala Huehuetenango

This coffee from Wandering Goat was grown near the Guatemalan city of Huehuetenango. With a name like that, I wish I knew how to pronounce it correctly, because my probably bastardized way of saying it is entertaining to me. 

While it sounds partially like laughing, Huehuetenango actually means place of the ancients in the Aztec language.

Stumptown - Guatemala Bella Vista

Stumptown's trading cards are back after a short break. This one comes to us from the country of Guatemala. It's grown in a land full of volcanoes, but certainly doesn't sound like it tasted fiery.

Stumptown - Guatemala Santa Clara

Here's another Stumptown coffee, with it's Stumptown trading card. From Guatemala, another country I've visited, but not specifically for its coffee.

Reading the description on this one makes me realize just how much effort Stumptown puts into meeting who they buy their beans from. I wonder how much effort they still put into that after being bought out. Sounds like something to look into.

An additional note. I've apparently liked this one enough to end up with multiple bags of it at different times.

*** 10/7/2017 - Update ***

This is embarrassing. I took two sets of photos of different Santa Clara cards. My sister gave this coffee a thumbs up.

As an additional note, who is Luis Pedro, and why am I expected to know him?