5-Pound Northern Italy Espresso, Unroasted Green Coffee Beans, Fresh Current Crop Specialty Grade, Roast the Beans Yourself at Home on Your Roasting Equipment Prior to Using for Brewing Coffee

The media could not be loaded.  WOW! If you like Espresso that hits like a Mike Tyson uppercut, this is the bean for you dang. Sweet, and powerful just like my grandmother. NO really this bean is great, I like to roast it until 2nd crack and go for another 1:30 nice dark bean that gets very oily. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

These make awesome espresso and lattes.

It's a decent value but I had to pick out a lot of greens before roasting and a lot after for unevenness. They seemed kind of dry and hit markers a lot faster than I was hoping. Took a few batches to find a profile that didn't scorch half left the rest raw. Solid flavors though, just extra work compared to other brands I've previously bought.

Roasted dark it's sweet and complex. It also has a sustaining aftertaste. Totally worth it.

I roasted this to perfection and it's very good. I am sure those who have limited access to excellent coffee will love it. The aroma after grinding is amazing. You can still taste the tobacco and cherry after brewing. It's very good.The Exelso with 15% robusta is amazing for estpresso....

I have purchased several pounds of unroasted whole bean coffee from different amazon venders. I will definitely not make the same mistake again. Next time I purchase I will buy the 10 lbs. I was sceptical at first purchasing from Smokin Beans but then I received my 5 lbs of Peru coffee in the brown burlap sack and boy oh boy what a pleasant surprise. Exceptionally high quality beans that roast up nicely giving off a wonderful aroma when brewing that wakes up the whole house.  5-pounds - Peru -VillaRica - Green Unroasted Whole Coffee Beans - In a Burlap Bag - For Home Coffee Roasters - by Smokin' Beans Coffee Co.

This is my first ever time roasting coffee and have done probably about 10x100g batches with this bag. The more I learned from reading and researching online the more suspicious of these beans I became. My roasted beans came out in wildly varying. A no-brainer occurred to me and I simply looked at my beans and compared them to the image on the product page. They do not look anywhere near the same. I got the Northern Italian espresso blend. The beans are very dehydrated and brittle.I got the bag in January 2024, the harvest date on the bag is simply listed as 2023. Not which month or day. Just the year. This roast date was not printed on the label, it was stamped onto the bag itself. The label itself doesn't exactly look professionally printed, which is fine, but this would lead me to assume this company is printing its labels which would make it easy to enter current dates onto the label itself and give a little bit more information on the harvest date other than just the year. I think what they are doing is keeping the harvest date intentionally vague and hand-stamping it onto bags filled with old, expired coffee that they probably get for a tiny fraction of the price which they're selling it for.I ordered some raw beans from a specialty coffee shop in Seattle that I trust. It's also a northern Italian espresso blend. I will compare their appearance and my results roasting them and come back to update my review. Sure enough, the fresh beans from Espresso Vivace look and smell entirely different than this brand. This leads me to believe that this company knows exactly what they are doing and thus acts unscrupulously by selling old expired beans for profit. I doubt that they are even specialty grade to be perfectly honest. They should be investigated. I am going to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.

The beans were all different shades of green, which was unusual, but boy was it some awesome coffee. Zero bitterness and so smooth. It was absolutely the best coffee that we have ever roasted/drank. Worth every penny.