Dark Brazil, 12 oz, Med-Dark Roast, Whole Bean, Kosher

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.

I was a long time user of Eight O'Clock 100% Colombian whole bean coffee. Over the years, I noticed that there was a lack of quality control. Bags weren't sealed properly and what I would call "bad beans" would be included. There may have been only a couple in the bag, but when they would be ground they would give a sour smell and the brew would be ruined. After I tossed a whole bag because it had a sour smell when I opened it, I decided to stop buying it.I started buying Jose's 100% Colombian at Costco and loved it. Recently, they stopped selling it. I went to Amazon looking for a replacement. I found this product and decided to give it a try. We had overnight guests and I made my first pot for them. No one liked it. To me, it had that same sour smell that was off-putting. I emptied the pot and made another. It was better, but still no one enjoyed it. I tossed the pot and the bag.Amazon sells Jose's so will buy that in the future even though it is much higher than it was a Costco.

I'm a pretty big coffee geek, and I've never had any problems with any coffee I've ordered on Amazon with good reviews. Maybe I got a bad batch, but this stuff was terrible. Very bitter and burnt, and if you use less grinds to try to help mitigate that, it is just too watered down. There really is no middle ground to get the perfect cup. I've tried countless times in my bodium press but it always came out...just flat out bad. The only way to get a decent (using the term lightly) cup was using my chemex. That helped with the terrible aftertaste and made it manageable to drink. Again, could have been a bad batch of beans, but it's not a gamble I'm going to risk taking again.

Pretty decent cup is what this makes. A very average cup of ordinary coffee. There aren't any sparkling notes or flavors that pop through. It isn't roasted to death which is what I enjoy most about FRC varieties in general, though this bag did seem rather stale. Very little if any degassing occurred when brewing - the ground just seemed a bit lifeless as is the case for most beans that've gone a bit stale. Not sure why - the roasted-date wasn't too far in the past judging form the Julian date code (that's how FRC stamps them) on the bottom of the bag, but it seemed a little stale nonetheless. We've had this problem with their beans in the past and a couple of times they've sent our replacements, but overall their customer service is rather erratic. They'll respond within a day or two sometimes, and yet I've had some emails just be ignored and so I do not order directly from their site as I once did for a couple of years, relying instead on Amazon's customer service if something goes wrong. I've just accepted that these beans aren't an enormous value (though it certainly was 3the case early on, about 4 years ago) any longer, all things considered. But these, and other varieties are definitely a decent value for the price. The Tanzanian Peaberry is generally good (though we've had some off batches of it as well), and the Bali Blue Moon (arguably their most popular single-origin) is probably the most consistent. I've received (directly) a few bags of more obscure, small batch beans from them in the past, a couple of which were *outstanding*, but it just isn't worth the dice-roll for those. I only hope their popular varieties remain of good quality. We'll pass on these next time, but the other mentioned are still go-to staples for our morning joe.

I won't pretend to be a coffee expert but I know what I like and dislike. I drink my coffee black, just as nature intended. This is a great, affordable brew that is better, in my opinion, than the overpriced Starbucks stuff. But who goes to Starbucks for a REAL cup of coffee? This bean is so good you won't have to cover up its natural personality with choko-latae-granda-cinnamon-whip-cream-frapachino. If you want a solid and smooth drink then this is the REAL coffee lovers choice. Especially since it doesn't cost $4.75 per cup.