Fresh Roasted Coffee, 100% Colombian Unroasted Green Coffee Beans for Home Roasting, Kosher, 5 lb (80 oz)

Very Happy. I love Colombian coffee. You can't find it in a light roast anymore. So I roasted my own. Roasted to City to City+. Bright, sweet, rich, nutty & chocolaty cup of coffee. Very balanced. Freshly roasted brewed coffee infused the house and makes it smell like a coffee shop. Good quality green beans as far as I can tell (All physically intact, consistent shape/size, clean smell--roasted coffee is fragrant and supremo size) but, I'm no expert. Differentiating between first and second crack is difficult. Continuous cracking between first and second into a Vienna roast. Toastmaster popcorn popper: city roast about 2:40, city+ at 3:00. Home roasting is fun. I can't stop smelling the fresh roasted coffee I made. It's addicting! (2/2015). Addt'l Info: Ordered direct from company for 2nd 5lb bag and got a less tasty bean batch; bags weren't marked with shelf date as Amazon beans are.

So, real quick; the last couple times the bag the coffee comes in gets a hole in it during shipping -- but it is shipped in a well sealed Amazon bag, so in the end its a small hassle, but I get all the coffee...it roasts beautifully and tastes what you expect from a great Columbian coffee. I most recently purchased Kenyan coffee. This is more elusive in roasting as it needs to be a lighter roast to bring out the fruity tones. I have settled on 5.5 minutes in the FreshRoast

Update: I originally gave this 3 stars but after a few weeks it's growing on me. Granted it's not terribly distinctive, but we don't buy Colombian coffee for that reason. Quite mellow and nutty. If you like Colombian, you'll like this. ------------------------ Pleasant, but non-descript Colombian. This is the coffee I would pick to serve large crowd or a rookie coffee taster. It's "middle of the road" in just about every category. Nobody's going to tell you it's bad, and nobody will tell you it's great. I needed to increase the coffee/water ratio to get more flavor. Method: French Press Grind: Coarse Water/Coffee Ratio: 15:1 Roast: City

Vendor shipped product expeditiously. Product quality very high; no cracked beans and very clean. Packaging was vers very high quality with use by date 01/01/2027. Will definitely order again.

Everything is a balance in life. This Lb. bag of Columbian green (unroasted) and organic coffee beans was the least expensive option I've seen for 5 Lb.s of green beans. Now that they are here and I've roasted my first batch, I have to say that the only thing a person gives up at this lower price is consistency of appearance and size of the individual beans. And, really, that's not an operational factor when it comes to roasting and brewing. Everything else about these green beans is excellent! The flavor is robust and, in my opinion, a little more complex that the 'standard' more expensive coffee I was roasting.

I would rather write a dozen 5 star reviews than a single 1 star review. Fresh Roasted Coffee LLC COLUMBIAN SUPREMO This is not Columbian Supremo. This is too easy to verify. Supremo and Excelso are sizes of beans. Supremo is the largest bean size at 6.75mm or larger. That’s 17/64 of an inch. Excelso is slightly smaller starting at 5.5 mm or 7/32 of an inch. These coffee beans were too small to be graded, ranging in size from 1-5 mm with many broken and deformed beans. . Uneven bean size translates into an uneven roast. I asked a friend and mentor with over forty years of roasting experience what he thought of these beans. He thought that they were a low comercial grade bean. Foot note: I also purchased the decaf sample pack. The Mexican decaf was of such low quality that I lack the words to describe it. It had more broken beans than whole beans. At least one quarter of the beans were just chips. There was even coffee dust if that was even possible. If you’ve ever roasted decaf in a fluid bed roaster, you know there’s no chaff. I had to empty the chaff basket after that roast. It wasn’t chaff. For a company to have as many good reviews as they do, they had to have been good. It’s disturbing that they could have gone from that to this. I am sorry that I had to write a negative review. I will NEVER buy from Fresh Roasted Coffee LLC again. I suggest that you don’t either.

This is good coffee, smooth and mild with nutty flavor (this can be controlled by the roasting time, but that's how mine turned out most times). I was on a roasting kick. for awhile and this was one of my favorite and a great deal. I recommend this for someone with knowledge of coffee roasting or someone wanting to learn. I am still learning so roasted mine in a cast iron pan, not ideal, but it worked. I recommend a coffee roaster for ease of use. Also to get the best out of the bean remember do not roast it all ahead or it defeats the purpose of fresh. Roasting this coffee really makes the house smell great.

This used to be an excellent product. But the last bag I ordered had a bunch of gravel (some rice-grain sized, some thumbnail sized) in it, and after roasting the flavor was meh. Too bad. Used to be awesome.