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Ritual Coffee Roasters

Esperança — Espresso

Sweet Tooth Single Origin Espresso

Natural

Cherrybook Index

54sparse

Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Sparse signal: 2 of 7 signals on file. Methodology

Price position

$2.04/oz$24.50 for 340g

Price position appears once the price model has scored this lot.

Catalog summary

A natural lot from Minas Gerais, Brazil, not yet indexed (2 of 7 signals on file).

Based on the listing and catalog evidence

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Roaster’s notes

peanut brittle · raspberry · cocoa nib

  • Fruit
  • Cocoa and nut
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Mapped from the roaster’s tasting notes to the SCA flavor wheel; Cherrybook’s interpretation of the stated notes, not the roaster’s own categorization.

Esperança — Espresso by Ritual Coffee Roasters
Producer
Bruno Souza
Farm / Co-op
Process
Natural
Altitude
Varietals
Harvest
Weight
340g
Bag price
$24.50
Price / oz
$2.04/oz
Brew
espresso

from the roaster’s storeread by Cherrybook from the listing“estimated” below = inferred, not stated

Cherrybook Index (CBI)

Evidence-of-quality score, not a cup score. Methodology

54

Sparse signal

Confidence2 of 7 signals on file

Score is heavily shrunk toward 50; treat as a placeholder until more sources arrive.

How confidence affects the score

Coverage measures signal availability, not cup quality. This coffee has 23% of the signal universe on file. Missing sources are dropped, remaining weights are renormalized, and the result is shrunk toward a neutral 50 baseline by 43% so one thin signal cannot carry the score on its own.

The math on file: renormalized base 56.3 shrunk to 53.6 = 54.

Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review, YouTube reviews, On-shop ratings, Cherrybook ratings

  • Reddit sentiment
    Sentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
    58/ 78% weight
  • Roaster transparency
    Producer / farm / lot disclosure depth
    50/ 22% weight

Sensory profileestimated

Acidity
3
Body
4
Sweetness
4
Balance
4
Clean
4

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About Ritual Coffee Roasters

Community reputation · Reddit

Mixed reviews· sentiment 58/100

Two Reddit posts give mixed but meaningful Ritual evidence. One treats Ritual as a commercial quality benchmark; another calls its Quilanga a nice bag while finding the roast slightly too developed and less acidic than preferred.

commercial roast benchmarkQuilanga roast balance
Threads cited (2)
  • r/roasting · 12↑ · The setup of John Battaglia (Ritual Coffee Roasters)

    Weird- my brother just came back from SF yesterday and brought me a bag of Quilanga (ecuador) from Ritual. I had never heard of them before. It's a nice bag- but I feel it was pushed a tad too far and lost some acidity.

  • r/roasting · 5↑ · how important is equipment?

    I've been roasting for a bit but my coffee has always turned out a bit one dimensional, especially when compared to the likes of four barrel / ritual. Do air poppers deliver an inferior product compared to fancier drum roasters? Rather, how important is the speed of the roast?

On YouTube

4 videos · 72k combined views

Ritual Coffee Roasters has 1 video on their channel; 3 videos come from outside reviewers (Andy Kang, Brian Castellani, WholeFoodsMarket).

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