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🇬🇹Guatemala · Antigua

Guatemala Antigua Bella Carmona

Roasted by Red Bird CoffeeRoaster's website

PROCESS NOT FULLY DISCLOSED

TagsGuatemala Antigua Medium roast Brown Sugar Arabica Single origin Specialty Hacienda Bella Carmona Luis Pedro Zelaya Red Bird Coffee Independent Variety undisclosed

🇬🇹GuatemalaMedium roast

Brand

Red Bird Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇬🇹Guatemala

Region

Antigua

Town

Antigua

Farm / Station

Hacienda Bella Carmona

Farmer / Producer

Luis Pedro Zelaya

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Specialty

Variety

—

Process

—

Roast

Medium

Tasting notes

Chocolate, Nuts, Brown Sugar, Mild Floral, Subtle Citrus

Fermentation

—

Drying

Sun dried after on-farm milling; duration not published

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

exact release scopeRed Bird describes this exact roasted product as Hacienda Bella Carmona, while Royal Coffee's current 2026 green-coffee listing under the Bella Carmona name is an 18-farm regional blend. Red Bird does not disclose crop year or exact green-lot equivalence, so the current page associations were preserved and the current trade-lot composition was not imported.
varietyRed Bird's exact product page does not disclose a variety. Varieties listed for Royal Coffee's current 2026 Bella Carmona trade lot cannot be safely assigned without exact crop/lot equivalence.
processRed Bird states that the coffee is processed at the on-farm mill and sun dried but does not publish a complete process. Royal Coffee's current fully washed, patio-dried trade-lot specification was not imported because exact equivalence is unproven.
elevationNo elevation is published for the exact Red Bird release.
fermentationNo fermentation protocol is published for the exact Red Bird release.
crop yearNo crop year is published for the exact Red Bird release.

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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

01
The name on the bag
Guatemala Antigua Bella Carmona
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Red Bird Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Red Bird Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
05
The farm
Hacienda Bella Carmona
Documented
06
The farmer
Luis Pedro Zelaya
Documented
07
The region
Antigua
Documented
08
The country
🇬🇹Guatemala
Documented

From the producer

Luis Pedro Zelaya manages Hacienda Bella Carmona, a 100-hectare estate that has been owned by his family for four generations. Red Bird describes shade from Grenville trees, environmental and sustainable management, on-site milling, and sun drying.

From the roaster

Red Bird Coffee offers this rich and balanced Guatemalan coffee, which features a rounded character, good body, and mild acidity. The cup is dominated by chocolate and nut flavors with subtle floral aromas that emerge as it cools.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The exact Red Bird listing documents a named estate, a named fourth-generation producer, on-farm milling, and a detailed cup profile. The current release does not disclose cultivar, elevation, or the full wet-processing method.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Current listing reconciled

Changed availability from Available to Sold out and reconfirmed price, sizes, roast, farm, producer, handling, notes, and brew methods.

Process boundary preserved

Kept hand picking, on-farm milling, and sun drying while leaving the complete coffee-fruit process and fermentation unspecified.

Public sentiment added

Recorded Shop’s exact product-level 4.9/5 aggregate from 12 ratings and excluded generic header totals and non-exact products.

What was added?

A fourth editorial section, current sold-out status, and one transparent exact-product public rating aggregate.

What wasn't added?

No cultivar, elevation, fermentation protocol, complete process label, or house score was inferred.

Why it matters

The page now combines unusually strong farm and producer traceability with an explicit boundary around missing process details and a clearly separated outside rating.

What you might taste

Red Bird lists chocolate, nuts, brown sugar, mild florals, subtle citrus, good body, mild acidity, and a long aftertaste.

Sources for these process claims

· https://redbirdcoffee.com/products/guatemala-antigua-bella-carmona
· https://shop.app/products/148472690/guatemala-antigua-bella-carmona

Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

What the internet is saying

WE FOUND 1 RELEVANT PUBLIC SOURCES

AI-synthesized from publicly available information retrieved 2026-11-08. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

Exact-product customer reviews are strongly positive: 4.9/5 from 12 ratings on Shop.

What people love

Reviewers praise the coffee as excellent and consistently great, and appreciate the roast-date labeling.

What people don't

One reviewer found it decent but preferred Red Bird's Brazil Sweet Blue; another still preferred Blue Jaguar.

Flavors people keep mentioning

excellentconsistently greatdecentroast-date labeling

Internet sentiment

A qualitative summary of public sources, including context. Not a coffee score.

Strongly positive

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Guatemala Antigua Bella Carmona

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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