by Amazon Brazilian Coffee Beans, Medium Roast, 1 Kg (2 Packs of 500g)- Rainforest Alliance Certified

The coffee has a wonderful taste; it's perfect and delicious

Pretty good, impressed for the price, smooth medium strength, no bitter aftertaste

After some hit and miss with coffee beans, tried these, good price, quick delivery and the taste is pretty good surprisingly. Will try some of their other beans see if they are equally as good.

Such a smooth and wonderful taste! If you like high quality coffee beans, these will satisfy you!

Not my preferred coffee but does the job for the price. Not very strong taste

Great coffee cost has gone up now

I picked these up as i love espresso and Brazilian origin beans are typically full of flavour and sweetness, with the price of 1kg for less than £10 i decided to give it a try. Unfortunately it was disappointing. These arrive as 2 foil bags, each 500g with the usual safety pressure valve. A quick squeeze on arrival and they smell sharp as though they have a high acidity, but also a hint of chocolate and nut. The best before date is roughly 10 months away. Open the bag and the beans are small in size, noticeably smaller than higher quality beans i've had before. The roast is even and consistent. There was no sign of any charred or excessive crushed beans. The smell is dark chocolate and acidic, almost sour. usually for Brazilian beans i would expect more fruit and chocolate, maybe a hint of nut. But these smell a bit flat. I'll guess either because the beans are small and picked early or they give them a very log shelf life (there's no roasted date). For espresso i used 15g ground on a baratza virtuoso (pre encore) conical grinder. Normally i would have it set to 10 (1/4 fine course) for good quality beans. So i started there and the shot came through very fast and watery and tasted horribly sour. I ground finer to a 7 and improved a bit and became more balanced with a decent crème and consistency. More of the chocolate flavour came through and the sour softened to a slight acidic flavour, with a tiny hint of sweet. But generally not a large amount of flavour. Brewed as a doubleshot on a delonghi dedica. I tried with an extra shot of water and increase decrease in of water temp but there wasn't a noticeable improvement. I also tried a finer grind but the texture of the espresso became more unpleasant than any improvement to flavour. For espresso based coffees with milk it doesn't go very well. When ground the coffee does not tend to clump and appears a bit drier, with less oils than others tried. I also found the puck to be filled higher than normal and attention to weight became more important. This could be a sign of older beans being used or a rapid roast. For cafetiere these beans are far batter suited and good for a morning brew. I used 30g ground to number 30 (3/4 large course) brewed in a 1 pint (500ml) cafetiere/ french press. The flavour is more balanced and makes for a pleasant companion for breakfast. The acidity is less noticeable and complements the milder dark chocolate and nut flavours. With milk it is also much better in this form. Value wise these are not bad. It's less than £10 for 1kg which is rarely seen so naturally these are not gonna be as good as beans that are double the price. On the other hand it means they are less versatile and you will have to find what works for you. For a morning pot these work a treat, or for visitors as a post meal brew. but for espresso i would only have 1 as a pick me up rather than a full flavoured cup to savour and enjoy before wanting something more tasty. Quality is ok, but these are definitely a value bean and might give you an idea of how single origin beans can vary from the generic italian blend in terms of flavour to a degree. They are a large distance from higher quality single source beans and if you do want to experience a single source bean as an experience do yourself a favour and purchase something different. Even a few £ can make a huge difference. As they say you get what you pay for. Thank you for reading my review. I hope you found it useful

Nice coffee taste smell will purchase more later

Café très bon avec un arome assez particulier, le gout ma agréablement surprise, pas trop fort mais pas invisible non plus. Il a une bonne torréfaction, et il passe sans aucun problème dans mon moulin. Je ne le connaissais pas du tout et c’est un excellent rapport qualité / prix pour le coup, je pense en reprendre dans quelques mois si le prix reste correcte.

Over the years of drinking coffee, I have always bought from a few Irish coffee retailers but giving the higher costs I thought I'd try some Amazon coffee's. Using my new Melitta 1025-18 Look V coffee maker, I added almost 3 scoops of freshly ground Brazilian coffee and let the machine do the magic. These Brazilian beans are my 1st time buying Amazon coffee and honestly Wow what a surprise ! The beans look dark but there's no burnt notes just a delicious sweetness and easy to drink black or white coffee. Such a lovely cup of coffee. I liked it so much that I placed a 2nd order and will be trying more amazon coffees in the near future

Bon prix et bonne qualité

Ottima qualità, lo uso con la mia macchinetta automatica philips e esce un buon caffè equilibrato e da un gusto piacevole bevuto anche senza zucchero

Be warned this is NOT a medium roast, this is a dark roast. Why it's important? The flavor profile: has zero acidity, and zero of that sweetness typical of Brazilian coffee beans. It's just bitter with an undefined toasted flavour, beans are different sizes and roasting is not uniform at all, some are burnt and very oily. Surface oils will go rancid very quickly, that's why most coffee beans should not be roasted like meat on a barbecue grill... Having tasted many other coffees, this does not taste bad like undrinkable, there are plenty of higher priced coffees with similar profiles. In fact, this is a pretty cheap coffee, it's simply not a medium roast with that flavor profile.