Cosmic Shift Seasonal Espresso

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• Comforting
  20

This year, as we celebrate our 20th cycle, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite seasonal espressos. Cosmic Shift first lit up our sky in 2021, and this year we’re bringing it back with visions of abundance, optimism, and great coffee. As the stars align for Ritual and all of you, we’ve lined up 3 of our favorite coffees to take you on a trip. Let Cosmic Shift bring you across Latin America to discover prosperity, balanced flavors, and notes of dark chocolate, green grapes, and candied plum! This year’s artwork features powerful symbolism for our season ahead — peep the evil eye, protecting creativity and happiness; embody the mouth, speaking truth; and note the latte art, representing our sun! It’s time for another Cosmic Shift, and we can’t wait for what’s in store! The 3 stars of Cosmic Shift are: Oahupan, Veracruz, México Ohuapan is a small community located in the Tlaltetela district, one of the most important coffee-growing areas in the Huatusco region in Veracruz, Mexico. Huatusco produces approximately half of Veracruz’s coffee, and Tlaltetela contributes a huge part of that. Ohuapan’s coffee, like the rest of Veracruz, is harvested in cherry. Producers use mules to transport the coffee from the farms to the nearest section of dirt road, then transport the coffee in trucks or ATVs to the nearest collection center. Transit time between farms and the central collection center in Ohuapan varies from 45 minutes to 1 hour. In the central processing plant, they use spring water to wash the cherry, which they then ferment for 48 hours in concrete tanks, followed by mechanical drying for 60 hours. The lands in Ohuapan are not the most fertile in the area, so producers usually use a larger amount of Yara fertilizer and organic compost made from coffee pulp. Many of the lower areas in Ohuapan are dedicated entirely to livestock. For many years, the Tlaltetela area was essentially known for producing undifferentiated-quality coffee in large volumes. Producer