Fresh Roasted Coffee, Unroasted Ethiopian Sidamo Water Processed Decaf, Organic Fair Trade Kosher, 5 Pound

I have purchased this item for the past 1 1/215 times. It has always arrived in perfect condition and is absolutely my favorite coffee ever!

I am on my 62nd purchase of the Yirgacheffe unroasted beans. So I am very familiar with this item and have enjoyed it. My latest purchase was not taped down at the top and there was a small hole in the bag at a fold. The beans smelled fine (I figured the tape and hole were likely during shipping) and I roasted one pound. It roasted a bit quicker and darker than previous bags but within reason. However, the flavor in this latest bag is off. I will likely try another bag before I give up on this. Just be aware if you do get a bad bag - you will likely be out the money for it as you cannot return the item. So, I now have 5lbs of very expensive garden fertilizer.

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.

I have roasted decaf beans from many countries. I purchased the Sidamo decaf and my wife said it was the best decaf coffee she has ever drank.

We have ordered several Lavassa green coffees and have been reasonably satisfied given the price point. However, where Yirgacheffe is concerned, they don't even come close to the FRC green coffee!I'm surprised the reviews for the other varietals offered by FRC are all mixed together in one review pool. I've only found one other review for Yirge. After having gone through a LOT of different green Yirgees from different distributors, this is the second best I've ever had and it is by far the most affordable! Or at least it was... it appears to have fallen off the Amazon Prime lists since I ordered it and received it... It was the equivalent of $6 per pound.They advertise the beans as Grade 2. I'm not sure what the limit is on quakers in grade 2. In roasting two cups of beans I found maybe 7 or so beans to reject before roasting (bug damage, discoloration or under ripe). After roasting them I probably found 10-12 quakers. That seems a bit high for Grade 2 to my inexperienced self, but that was far fewer than other "good quality" Yirgees I've roasted, especially Lavassa.We like our roast a light as possible while still achieving full bean flavor. 1:20 after first crack has yielded marvelous results with this bean! I've only roasted one Yirge that was better. Floral and citrusy notes abound. The Lavassa Yirge we had to roast quite a bit more just to get any flavor out of it, and we were never happy with the result. So this was cheaper, better quality beans and a much livelier and enjoyable cup than Lavassa.Thank you (ironically named) Fresh Roasted Coffee for such wonderful unroasted coffee! Hopefully by the time we're out, this will be back on Prime at the lower price point. Even if it wasn't (depending on price) I certainly consider ordering it again anyway.

I would rather write a dozen 5 star reviews than a single 1 star review.Fresh Roasted Coffee LLCCOLUMBIAN SUPREMOThis 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.

I've been roasting my own beans for several years. In early '23, I started going to half-caf to let me drink as much coffee as I wanted without wrecking my nervous system.When my usual source of beans ran out of Ethiopian decaf beans, I tried these. And the first bag was a worthy substitute. Not fantastic, but still perfectly compatible with the caffeinated beans I was blending with: mild fruitiness, sweetness, and a little chocolate when roasted medium-light.The second bag, however, is terrible. Bad enough that with a couple pounds still in the bag I may just discard it. If I roast light, it's sour. If I go to medium, it's basically flavorless. If I go medium-dark, it tastes ashy. I don't know what's going on, but after enough batches, I've finally stopped blaming my technique. It's the ******** beans.If I knew for sure that Bag 2 was just an aberration, I would happily buy this coffee again. As I said before, Bag 1 wasn't magical, but it was perfectly good for decaf. But I don't know that, and I'm never risking 50 bucks again on this brand.