Fresh Roasted Coffee, Guatemala Huehuetenango | 5 lb (80 oz) | Single Origin | Medium Roast | Kosher | Whole Bean

I’ve been regularly buying these beans for the last 5 months. I love that this coffee is freshly roasted. I get the Colombian Supremo and usually grind the beans right before I brew. This is the best coffee I’ve had in a long time. It is balanced without any bitterness or sourness to it. Truly a great value. I highly recommend!

couldn’t be happier with these beans which happily are roasted locally (to me, in Pennsylvania) and fair trade. really enjoy the Guatemalan beans.

The taste and the aromas are good, but while I was expecting a medium or light/medium roast, this is almost a dark roast.

I'm very pleased with this coffee. I keep several varieties of whole bean on hand so I can switch up my coffee when I feel like a change of pace. I have been using other brands of Colombian Supremo for a long time and it's hard to beat a good cup of Supremo. I wasn't completely satisfied with the others I had tried, they weren't bad but I knew there was better coffee to be had so when I worked my way through a bag of whole beans I'd order something else -- making my decision based on reviews and the percentage of 4 and 5 star ratings.I stumbled across this coffee and thought "why not?" It gets good reviews except for a few sour apples that are always present on any product. So I went ahead and ordered it, feeling that at this price there was little to lose and with the great reviews there might be a lot to gain.I'm glad I ordered this coffee because finally I'm satisfied with my stock of Colombian Supremo. I had bought several bags of Colombian Supremo and then moved on without reordering any of them. I'll be ordering this one again.It's always possible that I got a particularly good bag, that someone else didn't get a good bag, or that any single bag of beans isn't representative of a brand. One needs to bear such things in mind when ordering coffee beans online. It's not like you can taste the coffee before buying it. Still, none of the others I've tried in the last couple years was as good to my taste as this one so I'll try this one again.Another thing to keep in mind is that flavor is not an absolute. There are individual variances in the taste experience so what appeals to me may not appeal to others and vice-verse. I find this brand from the bag I got to be very full bodied and smooth with no bite and no bitterness. It's what I'm looking for in a Colombian Supremo and that is a very happy discovery. Especially being as it's significantly cheaper than other coffees that don't taste as well to me.Rather than write another review, if my experience with this brand changes for the worse I'll come back here and amend this one. If you don't see a dated update below then what I have to say about this coffee still stands.Update 17 March 2015: I noticed my stock of this coffee was running a little low, it's been six months since I bought this bag so I thought maybe some people would like to know how it stores and tastes after that amount of time. Bear in mind that I store all my coffees in air tight opaque containers, that's important if you're going to keep several varieties of coffee on hand and not use up any one variety quickly. I also store my coffees, pipe tobacco and cigars in a temperature and humidity controlled environment That probably isn't a big issue with air tight containers, I just have room for my coffees where I store my tobaccos. I know the "freshly roasted" snobs are going to turn their noses up so if you're one of them, go ahead and stop reading right now. I don't care what you have to say because taste is more important than theory to me. I know what tastes good to me, I won't benefit from anyone telling me that what I like I can't possibly like because blah, blah, blah.This coffee has stored extremely well. It has gotten even smoother and more mellow with storage but is still as bold as when I first opened the bag and dumped it in a container. This may be why some folks say a new bag doesn't taste like the one they got before, if the coffee has had time to mature between when the bag was first opened and when the new, freshly roasted bag was opened then there's going to be a difference in taste. I have enough of the first bag left that the bag I'm having delivered today will sit in it's air tight container for a while; but just to experiment I'll brew a pot with beans from the new bag when it comes to see if there's a difference.I'll try to come back and update this review when I've had time to evaluate the new bag of whole beans. So far I'm very pleased with this coffee and it's the only Columbian Supremo that I've ordered more than once from Amazon. If the new bag is as good as the first one I'm probably done searching for Supremo. If not, I'll let everyone know.

Try the Organic Guatemala if you like to make cold brew. So far ive tried Organic Peru and Organic Costa Rica. They werent bad, but I didnt care to have more. The guatemala wins by a mile on its bright flavor that will probably be better than 95% of cold brews you get at coffee shops.

Update 8/5/2020We continue to buy this FRC Terrazu and love it. If I have a criticism it's that their degree of roasting seems to have changed over time. NOW it seems more of a true medium roast, with fewer dark accents in the taste- just the opposite of what you'll read in my original review below. So when we feel like fussing, we are now buying a darker Costa Rican coffee available locally and mixing it in 1 part dark to 4 parts FRC's Tarrazu to mimic the complexity we love. Still a great product as is out of the bag, although the price has crept up over time.Original Review from 2018I've been enjoying Tarrazu whole bean coffee for several years from Trader Joe's. Unfortunately, they just (2018) discontinued offering it. This threw me into a panic, and after that, into research where I quickly learned that Tarrazu was a Costa Rican variety, not TJ's own brand name. (Who knew?) And naturally, when I couldn't find a different Tarrazu locally, this brought me to Amazon and this product.I would rate it 4-1/2 stars if I could, but 4 didn't seem to be enough, so 5 it is. Why? The TJ's product was slightly less dark, and I would argue, had a bit more complexity to it. From looking at the beans, I suspect that TJ's blended a little bit of a lighter roast along with the darker, and it was billed as a medium dark roast.This FRC, on the other hand, is a dark roast (2018). It is delicious, make no mistake about it. Rich and full of flavor. But it does not have as much of the caramel quality that we so enjoyed in TJ's. I will experiment with using less coffee to see if that makes a difference and report back; if I learn more about how to tease that quality out of this coffee. So I would withhold a half star for that if I could.We ended up blending a bit of a medium Guatemalan to ease up on the darkness of the roast and that served us well for a couple of years.Having said all that, this is a delicious coffee at only a slightly higher price, delivered to my doorstep!