Fresh Roasted Coffee, Unroasted Colombian, Kosher, 5 Pound

Drink it as iced coffee

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

I subscribe to receive Unroasted Columbian Supremo, and have been overall pleased with the product. The beans roast evenly to City + in the time expected with each batch. The flavor is rich with minimal bitterness. The reason for this comment is that I find numerous thin threads of what appears to be white plastic throughout the bag of beans (see photo). This has been the case with each bag purchased over the past several months. I don't want to melt plastic into my beans while roasting, or drink contaminated coffee, so I have to carefully remove the threads before roasting (and likely miss a few). I shouldn't have to do this, and would like to know what these threads are. They melt and smell like plastic when lit. Please ask Fresh Roasted to find and eliminate the source of these white plastic threads in their beans or I will have to find a different brand or source for my unroasted beans. Thank you.

Have been home roasting coffee about 7 years. Tried all kinds. Usually like separately roasted tri-blend consisting of Central America (Brazil or Columbia) + Central America (Costa Rica or Guatamala) + Ethiopia Yirgacheffe (Africa). Not sure yet, but tasted alone, this Columbia doesn't quite equal the flavor profile of Columbias from other green coffee suppliers. Not bad, just different. Green beans themselves look perfect. Am trying to re-roast same beans from done a few days earlier and seems better. Going medium roast / not dark / not black. Dark brown. Taking 2nd roast temp to about 450 degrees, for about 6 minutes, power off, let light smoke for 45 seconds, then cool with fan. Now pretty good stand-alone. Next step is try in tri-blend. Part of the fun / art / skill in home roasting! Folks seem to like all of home roasted coffee! Update: (Sept -23) Tried taking to 405 degrees. (nope) Then second trial to 425 .. better than either 450 F or 405 F in SR800 air roaster. Only thing remaining is taking it to 435 & see how that comes out. Blending with mild Costa Rican seems to help. Still not our favorite. (Trying to salvage purchase.)

I use this coffee to make grande lattes and the result is excellent. I don't drink neat espresso but my guess is that this would not be balanced enough for most espresso drinkers' tastes, and it doesn't generate as thick a crema as other blends. However, the coffee works great in large milk drinks due to its powerful, chocolaty, non-acidic traits. It actually works better than other more expensive espresso blends I have tried, both green and roasted varieties. For instance, I prefer this coffee over my previous favorite - Sweet Maria's Liquid Amber espresso blend. Some notes on how I use it: I roast 12 oz batches in a Behmor roaster and cool just as the beans enter 2nd crack (about 20 minutes) to get a "full city+" result. I let the coffee sit for a day before either using it or freezing it in a glass jar. I use a Mazzer Mini E/A to grind it and a Profitec 700 to brew it. Brew temp is set to 200F and I extract about 36g of espresso in about 24 seconds thru 20g of coffee before adding 8 oz of steamed/expanded milk to fill a 16 oz container. Delicious!

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.

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.

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