Authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, Whole Bean, Medium Roasted, 227g

Excellent flavor and freshness for an Amazon product. It definitely ranks top 5 for coffee blends I've had. I definitely like single origin beans from Clifton Mound Estates or Wallenford from specialty importers more though. I would still buy this again if I'm ever looking for more budget friendly blue mountain coffee.

I purchased (1) package as a sample to see how it compared to my first experience with 'Blue Mountain' that I purchased in a little bodega in Manhattan by chance over fifty years ago. I'd never heard nor tasted the original before but it changed the way I tasted coffee to this day. This sample was actually very close to that original. I immediately bought a 2nd package and it was undrinkable. Stale, old, disgusting, and dead are a few words that come to mind; hence the (3) stars for my experience. If I was 100% certain that every package was truly fresh I would subscribe. However, at this point it's 50-50 and as many times before, the ads and reviews praise their coffee as 100% 'Blue Mountain' and it's simply a waste of money. I've been attempting to find that original taste on Amazon and 'No One', except the aforementioned 1st package, has comes close. It's worth the risk, but be forewarned!

Really good flavor.

It is a delicious and well balanced cup of coffee full of flavor and lower acidity. That being said, the price should be closer to $30 a lb, at the time of this post, it is $80 a lb. If not for the high price, I'd order it more often.

Generally I buy light-roast, so you can call this my biased-opinion, but here it is anyway. Not worth the price. I consider this as dark-roast, definitely shiny and oily. Tastes and smells like ashtray. I've tried this as pour-over and espresso, both types resulted in a burnt and bitter flavor, uncommon of "medium roast" as this had described it was. I can easily purchase similar burnt smokey roasts at much lower prices. I'll never do espresso of this again because it left residual flavor in my machine... had to pull 2 more shots of other roast to flush it out. I would consider for pour-over again, just add lots of cream and sugar. Needless to say my high expectations of Jamaican Blue Mountain have been been a major let down. It still looks like a fresh batch, likely roasted within a week or two. BTW, I hate the burlap bag, got several fibers on the beans before grinding, even though I removed and tossed the hard-to-remove burlap bag (no label on the now "mystery" foil bag)... considered rinsing the foil bag before opening it. UPDATE: Customer Service got in touch with me and refunded me majority of what I spent (excluding shipping). Overall satisfied with their customer service. Bumping up to 3 stars vs 2.