5-Pound Guatemala Washed Processing, 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

These are our favorite beans since we have started roasting our own. Great flavor with a light or a dark roast.

This is the first bean I have ever roasted so take this review with that in mind.I use a Fresh Roast 500.I have roasted about 4lbs so far, I've made a lot of mistakes and learned a lot roasting this coffee. What I can say is no matter what roast I've tried Full City, Cull City + or a darker Espresso Roast the coffer is very mild. I like the flavor but it is not a strong coffee.The Espresso roast brewed in a Breville Espresso machine is my favorite of all I've roasted. It is mild but chocolatey. Very smooth and if that was the only coffee I drank I would use this bean every time. I use a temperature probe and stop this roast at about 460deg or 30-35sec into 2nd crack.The Full City and Full City + was roasted for Pour overs or standard drip. Again both are mild and smooth but a touch weak if brewed like I normally brew coffee. I have a 12oz Yeti I do pour overs in for work and I need at least 3 large tablespoons in not 4 to make a cup that doesn't taste like flavored water. But when I get it strong enough it is a very good cup.I still haven't been able to get a drip brew strong enough they all taste watered down.I roast the full city to about 435 and the full city + to about 445. Give or take a few degrees. Full city right at or just before 2nd and + about 20 seconds into 2nd.My biggest problem is consistency but since this is the only bean I've roasted I can't tell if it is the bean or the Fresh Roast 500.There is a lot of chaff in the inside of this bean until the espresso roast where it seems to be burned out maybe that is normal for all beans.Toward the end of the bag the bean size is getting less consistent and I did get a small pebble jammed in my burr grinder. My wife is still buying roasted beans and we go back and forth so I can guarantee which beans had the pebble but I read another review where they found one in this mixture and caught it before it went into the grinder. I sort my beans a lot more carefully as the cool now to prevent damage. We got lucky and I was able to get the pebble out with out damaging the burr but I wouldn't expect to be that lucky again.Over all I would buy this bean again but I am going to try a few other origins to get a more rounded experience.

The ready to roast just as you prefer! Any way , properly to your need/taste. Good taste!

Two previous orders of Smokin Beans (Columbia Huila and Costa Rica) were wonderful! Unfortunately this batch of Guatemala is pretty much substandard. Beans run from tiny and misshapen to large, and every size in between. This makes even roasting at home pretty much impossible. Also, today I found a small pebble in a batch I had just roasted. That would have destroyed my expensive burr grinder. Flavor is only so-so. Beans roast super quickly probably because the smallest beans crack so quickly while the large beans stay essentially unroasted and have to be picked out and discarded by hand. Disappointing AND I still have 3 pounds to go.

The beans came in good condition, and they roast very well. I would reorder them.

5 stars. Nothing better than home roasted live coffee beans.

We really like this Guatemalan coffee. When cooling after roasting it there’s not a lot of “fluff” or “flecks” that come out as with some other brands we’ve tried.

Love roasting these beans