Find out where our favorite coffees grow

The Lake Effect in Honduras
A Land Like No Other

At Ritual, it’s always been our mission to seek out the most sustainable win-win relationships with the best coffee-growing families and collectives from around the globe.

In tandem, we’ve been continually thrilled to discover that growing quality coffee is not unlike growing wine grapes, where it’s all about the terroir. The unique properties of the land and soil are of vital importance.

Nowhere is this more beautifully evident than in the Lake Yojoa region of Honduras, where a group of Ritual baristas and staff journeyed this year alongside our green coffee buyer Aaron Van der Groen.

Aaron Van der Groen

The team handpicked ripe coffee cherries, meeting nearly all of the producers we work with on foggy Santa Bárbara Mountain.

They learned how coffee is processed, sorted, and evaluated at Beneficio San Vicente in Peña Blanca, ate plenty of baleadas (Honduran breakfast tacos), and returned with the collective sentiment that Honduras is a place of complicated beauty, but tremendous with potential and heart.

Evin Moreno's farm in El Cedral

Ritual began sending baristas to coffee growing communities in 2014. For those serious about coffee it could stand in for paradise.

Every year since, we’ve offered the opportunity to all Ritual employees, and they always return with super fresh coffees and more than a few stories to tell.

Producers Santos Alexis Domínguez and Nelson Ramirez

The 2019 team, with producer Evin Moreno and Benjamin Paz of Beneficio San Vicente

To celebrate the arrival of these incredible offerings, we’re spotlighting Honduras during the first few weeks of November at all of our coffee bars, with a 100% Café Hondureño drink menu, meet-the-producer events and much more. Please join us!

This Saturday, November 2nd
6:00-7:00 pm @ Ritual on Valencia – Talk and Q&A from producer Nelson Ramirez and exporter Benjamin Paz.

Then at 7:30 pm
Latte Art Throwdown!
$10 entry fee to compete, all proceeds go back to the farms.

Friday, November 8th
1:00 pm @ Ritual on Valencia – Public cupping hosted by producer Nelson Ramirez and Ritual’s Coffee Buyer Aaron Van der Groen.

There's More!
Find us at the SF Coffee Festival, November 2nd-3rd at Fort Mason Pavilion!

In the Bay Area?
Come visit us at any of our cafés and experience the unique variety of Honduran coffees while they’re super fresh!

Not close by?
All of the 2019 Honduran coffees will be available online.