Coffees The Roasting Shed

Guatemala

The Roasting Shed · Islington

La Esperanza Espresso - Guatemala

milk chocolate · banoffee pie · berry · jammy

£46.00/kg

£46.00 for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about £0.83 for an 18 g espresso dose

Price observed 4 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

Delivery cost not stated by the roaster

Traced to a farmFarm named

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BagPricePer kilo
200 g£12.50£62.50/kg
1 kg£46.00£46.00/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 26% cheaper per kilo than the 200 g.

How it sits among coffee from Guatemala

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Guatemala: 276 of 550 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

The Roasting Shed describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet, chocolate. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Guatemala; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Guatemala, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Guatemala coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country
Guatemala
Region
Huehuetenango
Farm or estate
La Esperanza
Producer
Francisco Morales
Process
natural
Altitude
700 m
Not stated
variety, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

Where each fact came from

Altitude, lowest

“Producer: Francisco Morales Origin: Huehuetenango, Guatemala Altitude: 1,600 - 1,700 masl Varietal: Mixed Processing: Natural Brew: Espresso Every bag is printed with its roast date.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Farm

“Producer Over the past 40 years, Francisco Morales and his wife have grown La Esperanza farm into a business that supports their family and provides employment for those in the surrounding area.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“With milk, it becomes creamy and caramelly, bringing out notes of milk chocolate and banoffee pie.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“Producer: Francisco Morales Origin: Huehuetenango, Guatemala Altitude: 1,600 - 1,700 masl Varietal: Mixed Processing: Natural Brew: Espresso Every bag is printed with its roast date.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Region

“Francisco’s curiosity and commitment to improving quality has earned him several prizes in the Huehuetenango Highland competitions.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Process This lot is produced by Francisco Morales and his son Elmer, who oversees the drying of the natural process coffee.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Producer

“This lot is produced by Francisco Morales and his son Elmer, who oversees the drying of the natural process coffee.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“With milk, it becomes creamy and caramelly, bringing out notes of milk chocolate and banoffee pie.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

A further 2 facts on this page were read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for them.

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.

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