Coffee Bean Direct Tanzanian Peaberry, Whole Bean Coffee, 5-Pound Bag

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Wow - great coffee!!I'm not a coffee snob, other than I like to grind my beans fresh and use a French press. I'm generally on a budget, but I haven't been completely happy with what's available at the supermarket - either quality or price. I decided to give this a shot because of the price and reviews, and I'm glad I did.First, this coffee smells incredible - it's almost reminiscent of popcorn, in a way. But I can't really describe the earthy, toasty smell other than it's the best smelling coffee I've ever encountered. I'm not too familiar with low acidity coffee, but this brews up with great, complex flavor, but it's also incredibly smooth and has good strength. After brewing this several times I'm finding that I like it more and more with time. It's just a wonderful, satisfying cup of coffee to have at home. To me it's much, much better than anything I can find at the supermarket, and you can't beat the price.I couldn't be happier with this purchase. 5Perfect Coffee IMHOGreat price for a monster amount of coffee that is perfect. Colombian is my favorite, eventually I will branch out to try the other wonderful sounding flavors offered by Coffee Bean Direct. I love the aroma from the opening of the bag to grinding to brewing. Once opened I store in mason jars, I'm personally not a fan of freezing coffee. I am a coffee fiend, I have a hand grinder just in case the power goes out, I can still have coffee available. It is so wonderful to be able to get 5 pounds of this delicious coffee. Perfect coffee, IMHO. 5Excellent Costa RicanJust made my first pot with these beans... a very smooth Costa Rican roast.The beans are not oily and seem pretty fresh. A nice medium roast and an excellent breakfast coffee...I'd rank this up there with some of the better local brands. Once I went to Costa Rica, I found out how nice their coffee was...This did not disappoint.. highly recommend. 5A better than average medium roast - but if your expect a dark French Roast you will be disappointed.Definitely not a dark French Roast. The beans are a deep brown, grind up to a medium brown and at 2 TBSP per cup brew up to a decent, low acid medium roast coffee but not at all what I would expect of a product labelled "French Roast" My grinder is a Breville ceramic burr - with a lower end grinder I could see the results being far more disappointing. Won't order this variety again and don't recommend to anyone who prefers a true Dark Roast coffee. 3Not sure what happenedI have been buying coffee from Coffee Bean direct for the last few years and have tried many different roasts. I prefer the darker roasts. We use subscribe and save to order our coffee. The last two bags of this Kenya AA have been awful. They both were a light roast and very bitter, with a terrible after taste. I thought the one bag was an outlier so I opened up the last 5 lb bag and the coffee is the same. Not sure whats happened but I guess I will need to try to find different coffee. 1Good, not great. Call it...underwhelming.I bought the Jamaican Blue Mountain Style coffee (which isn't Jamaican Blue Mountain - they do state that clearly - but tries to imitate it).I've had a blend with real Jamaican Blue Mountain before (mixed with other beans to enhance the flavor - and lower the cost), and was hoping for something that heavenly again. This wasn't it. It makes a good cup of coffee, maybe even above average. If they weren't comparing it to Jamaican Blue Mountain, I might even call it great...maybe.I can't tell by looking if beans are old or stale, as some people have said in other comments - but the expiration on the bag was over a year out, which is usually a good sign. There wasn't much aroma when I opened the bag, and the freshly ground and brewed coffee doesn't have a lot of aroma, either. I re-bagged the beans into smaller containers, so hopefully the last cup I brew will be nearly as good as the first - but 5 pounds is a lot of coffee. It makes the price affordable, though, so that keeps it from being a bust - under $9/lb for good coffee is acceptable.All things being equal, though, one day I'm going to splurge on real Jamaican Blue Mountain again. Until then...I might give this another try if the price is right. It's certainly drinkable, just not outstanding. Maybe this weekend I'll see if french press (rather than the quality drip coffeemaker I'm using) can get more out of it. 3a new favorite!I love these beans. Delicious, complex coffee flavors, but with a low acidity and a mild up-front punch. Kind of like some Indonesian coffees, but also unique -- more earthy, less fruity. Everyone else says it's "smooth", and I suppose that is exactly right.Do some quick internet research on the "monsooning" process and how it came about, it's a fascinating story that reminds me the happy accident of historical circumstance behind the India Pale Ale beer style. I've been a big coffee drinker for years, but I don't think I'd had monsooned Malabar coffee before I bought this bag from Amazon. I've been missing out.The bag arrived stamped with a roasting date about 10 days earlier. I suppose there are ways you can get a fresher roast ordering direct from the roaster and so on, but 10 days seems pretty reasonable to me. The beans were a light-to-medium roast and smelled gorgeous, earthy and rich. My every-morning routine has been to grind and brew a half pot of this with my drip coffeemaker. The fact that it is so low in acidity and bitterness means I can brew it a little stronger than I might with other beans to boost the caffeine and the delicious flavor. This coffee makes a really nice espresso as well, for whatever reason it gives the most incredible crema of any bean I've put through my little Gaggia machine -- the result is almost like the head on a stout ale.All in all a unique and wonderful bean I am going to buy a lot more of! 5Pleasant earthy beans, low acidity, but it lacks a certain interest on its own - blend it with brighter beans!It's so hard to describe tastes, how do I write a helpful review? I like to grind my own coffee right before brewing and I use a french press every day and when I'm lazy and also like to make Turkish coffee on special occasions for 1 or 2 friends or just myself.I like dark (but not too dark, not bitter) earthy brews - I usually steer away from "bright acidity" and "fruity" beans (though when I tastes those I can still tell if it's good coffee or not). I drink my coffee with sugar, but no milk (except sometimes when I'm in the mood). I also don't like overly dark, skunky or burnt coffee. I really don't care about how much caffeine is in the beans, but if you must know the darker roasts have less caffeine remaining, even though they may taste "stronger" :0)Just for reference: I like Peet's "Major Dickason blend" and Starbucks "Verona" blend and Espresso roast, they're not the "best", but indicative of what I'm going for. But I really don't like what Starbucks puts in their cups, which everyone carries like they're wearing a uniform.Anyway, I bought a 5 lb. bag of these Brazilian Santos and also a dark version. I like the dark a little better, but they both taste like versions of itself and are very good, well rounded, solid beans. I ordered these because I can't really find Brazilian beans anywhere locally and also because I like their low acidity.But these beans on their own don't really produce the most complex (or "interesting") cup - I use these to mix with certain more assertive coffees I got from Costco, to stretch them out and breathe a little more interest. I think they're ideal for that, because they're good enough where they don't take away flavor, but neutral enough not to take over the flavor.I don't regret buying these and Coffee Bean Direct is a great deal, but I will try another kind next time - I usually only come back to exceptional brews and I only just discovered CBD, so there's more to try.Perhaps, if I owned a coffee shop or a pastry shop or cafe, I would use these (and their darker version) because it seems like the coffee that would please everyone. These are like home-made chicken soup - impossible to hate (and SO much better than store bought), but also not really a 3-star entree :)I hope this helps, if you have questions I'll try to respond :) 4Coffee Heaven!!!This is some of the best coffee I've every had. I'm very picky about my coffee and very rarely drink coffee that I didn't make myself so I'm always looking at new coffee machines and coffee and I think I've finally found my nirvana, this coffee and my Bunn caf coffee machine. I've only had coffee this good before when my grandson was in the hospital and I would go to the coffee cart and they had Columbian Supremo. It made sitting in the hospital a little bit easier. We are liking it so much that I have to change my subscribe and save to earlier than expected. If they ever change this I don't know what I'll do because it is fabulous.Well, it's changed. It is not near as good as it was even though the price has steadily been going up. This is the second delivery that has not been good at all. I really should send it back and I'm really not sure if I will but at any rate it is not as good as it was. I contacted the company directly and they basically told me that they have no control over what Amazon does with the coffee after it's delivered to them. I'm thinking that they have too much in stock and it is being stored wrong because now it basically tastes rancid. I'm really bummed because I've really been used to great coffee for about a year and now I have to look for great coffee again. 3Must be an error...Seller is fine -- delivered on time, good packaging etc -- but honestly this coffee is awful. We have been buying nothing but Costa Rican Tarrazu from Amazon for several years and there are several sellers who put out very similar product -- each indistinguishable from the other. This bag of coffee is thin and acidic and tastes like the pre-ground coffee from the metal cans in the supermarket. Please have a look at your supply chain and investigate how this product was roasted and bagged as Tarrazu. It is so bad that there must have been an error. This stuff is going into the garbage. 1

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