Unroasted Colombian Supremo

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Edited review: Still stand by my original(below), but thought I'd add that if you mix the two beans (links listed below and roasted separately), you can get a much better result than either produce on their own. The Gayo, with its lack of "punch", cuts the bitter edge off the Sumatra...and together I'd give them a 4* easy. http://www.amazon.com/Sumatra-Green-Unroasted-Coffee-Beans/dp/B00B1LY7GK/ref=cm_cr-mr-title http://www.amazon.com/Unroasted-Coffee-Fresh-Roasted-LLC/dp/B00E7UMXN6/ref=cm_cr-mr-title ***************************************************************************************** Compliments first; purchasing, shipping and packaging were "spot on" great experience with the company and Amazon. But the two stars are for the bean. This is the fourth varaity of bean I've home roasted. With this batch I got "bitter." Tried the range from light to dark roast in a popcorn air-popper and it's just bitter for the range. Time to explore more. I might have to just go back to the Costarica Tarrazu...LOVED it.