Showing posts with label Ritual Coffee Roaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ritual Coffee Roaster. Show all posts

8/27/2014

Ritual Roasters ~ Has created patterns?


With respect, this is the first visit San Francisco's pioneer specialty coffee roaster, Ritual Coffee Roaster.  

Ritual coffee is the kick starter of the third wave movement and contributed to shift quality of "ready to go" type coffee beans at the store like super markets and specialty food shops.  Now, Ritual roasting missionizes "light roasting to retain green beans' flavor", often referred as Scandinavian Roast.
Sightglass offers "lighter roasts", but Ritual goes above.  

Ritual roasting is highly edgy, but not "cutting edge" type edgy.
Ritual uses highly selected green beans so beans itself has fruity full-flavor.  However, Ritual way of "light roasting" may not reproduce-able by computerized/programmed roasting machines operated any roasters.  The technique belongs to only one roaster who started this.  

If you like to try new flavor, ask Ritual balistas before purchase beans.

11/02/2012

Ritual Roaster @ Hayes Valley


Ritual Coffee Roaster KIOSK @ Hayes Valley

On one sunny afternoon, the outside coffee stand allow you to breath.  Ritual Kiosk stands back to back with a delicious ice-creamer, .Smitten Ice Cream.  

Lucky enough for Smitten Ice Cream?
or
Lucky enough for Ritual?   

Well, take a cup and make a guess.

At Proxy
432b Octavia St
San Francisco, CA 94102
415.865.0989 Phone
Every day: 7am - 7pm

11/01/2012

ARAMO COOPERATIVE:Ritual Roaster

Beans: ARAMO COOPERATIVE
Ethiopia 

Ritual Coffee Roaster: the cutting edge of coffee roasting in SF, among third wave coffee roasters.

Why?
Because of Ben Kaminsky, three-time winner of the National Cupping Championships, who is titled as Ritual Coffee's quality control expert.
Photographed is beans with his recommendation given to Joy Egami, Blue mountain distributor and the representative of UCC America.  It was just lucky enough to picture and to taste a cup roasted by SF, no world's the best cupping master's coffee.

Flavor was wonderful, even with subtraction of bias which may have caused; however, the beans was too high and subtle in craftsmanship to recreate "the flavor".
Flavor was very edgy and sensitive, which may apply to all beans presented by Ritual coffee.  Their beans selection has no doubt: single origin or micro rot, natural process, selected with highly sharpened cupper's seances.  Every single aspect of their coffee beans were carefully manipulated and operated to bring out the best flavor hidden in the beans.


BUT, here is my question: 
Is there anyone re-create the flavor?
Is there anyone operate commercial amounts in that quality?
Is there anyone can brew this with original flavor?


















I wish we would say "YES" to all.

Edgy & whizzy roaster needs barista to synchronize, at least to follow, to transform his creation into a liquid.  
There may be few sensitive enough to taste difference; however, I hope people will enjoy "real" flavor of this precious cutting-edge coffees more and more.