AmazonFresh Just Bright Whole Bean Coffee, Light Roast, 32 Ounce (Pack of 1)

Are you looking for an affordable whole bean coffee option as a daily drinker? This is it!I am a coffee aficionado, a coffee expert, an absolute coffee snob no one enjoys talking about coffee with. I use a Chemex to brew my coffee every day, a scale to measure the coffee and water weight to ensure the proper consistent production of the coffee, and a high-quality grinder that creates the perfect grind consistently. Yes, I do go overboard with my coffee.I say that to say that this coffee is the only item on Amazon I have subscribed to, and every 3 weeks it has been delivered to my house for the last year and a half. Why? Because it's cheap and easy.Listen, coffee is an experience some of the time, but it's a necessity MOST of the time. I wake up most workdays and I need a cup to get me going. I don't want to waste my amazing $36 per pound Guatamelan single-farm organic coffee on my morning cup of joe. I want to save that for a Sunday of relaxation and enjoyment, black with a pipe of tobacco on the side. But Monday morning, 15 minutes running late, take out AmazonFresh Just Bright Whole Bean Coffee, grind it, slam hot water on top, throw some almond milk in, done.The flavor is a perfect blend of enough citrus to enjoy, and enough bitterness to remind you it's still coffee. You don't mind adding anything to it, because you don't feel like you're ruining a work of art by doing so. It's flexible enough to use as espresso, in a Chemex, or a Hario V60.Simply put, I recommend this coffee to even the snobbiest of coffee snobs as a great daily drinker!

A two pound bag for half the price of a one-pound bag of competitive coffees. OK, it's not the world's champion coffee. But you'll want to stock up on this as Covid-19 dries up the supply of those premium coffees that are getting hard to get. This is MORE than satisfactory, especially taking into account the incredibly low price. I bought it out of curiosity. Although a bit over-roasted and coarse in flavor it beats all supermarket grade coffees. On a scale similar to judging wines, this gets and 88 or 89. That's not bad. UPDATE (by the way, my package did outgas, but not much, due to delay in shipping) However, I stored it under good conditions for aging, and it finished releasing its gas, and now it tastes much smoother. Sort of like letting wine "breathe". Update on Juen 25, nine months later. It has not aged too well, because a bitter component has increased. I drop its score to about 80. So it is an emergency coffee, almost a last resort. Sorry. I will not be ordering any more of this.

I'm pleasantly surprised by this coffee (skip to the next paragraph to avoid the likely unnecessary rambling background info). Over the last 5 years or so, I have transitioned from a person who drinks coffee to simply stay alive at work, to someone who truly enjoys good coffee. I guess you could call me a bit of a coffee snob. I have purchased many other brands of coffee from Amazon in the past with mixed results. Same with most grocery store offerings. Without being able to see the roast date, it's difficult to know how fresh the coffee actually is. Because of this, I typically buy fresh coffee from a local roaster since fresh coffee tastes better. But specialty coffee is not friendly on the wallet when you drink as much coffee as I do. My local roaster's 1 pound bags cost between $16-18, and my household can go through a bag in a couple weeks typically. So my goal has been to enjoy specialty coffee on the weekends while finding a more budget-friendly alternative for drinking during the week at work.Enter AmazonFresh. I recently purchased the whole bean light roast ("Just Bright") because at under $16 for 2 pounds, I figured it was worth a shot. So far, I can't say that I'm disappointed. I have used these beans in an Aeropress and in a pour-over, and both methods have produced good cups of coffee. The first thing I noticed was that these beans actually seem somewhat fresh. There was only a "best by" date on the bag (no roast date), but there was a noticeable bloom when I poured water over the beans after grinding...much more than other brands I have purchased from Amazon in the past. So how fresh is this coffee? Who knows, but it seems fresher to me. I suppose I could have just gotten lucky and future shipments would not be as fresh, but I hope this isn't the case.And this coffee tastes good. I should mention that the "light roast" doesn't taste like a typical light roast in my opinion...maybe more like a medium roast. If you purchase this coffee expecting to get the brighter notes of a Kenyan or Ethiopian coffee, you will likely be disappointed. But I think it tastes quite good. Is it as good as more expensive specialty coffee? No. And it isn't good enough to completely replace my visits to the local roaster. But it's plenty good enough for me to enjoy during the week, and the price is unbelievable. I don't know if I will try the other roasts from AmazonFresh in the future, but I will be purchasing the "Just Bright" variety again. Hopefully the quality remains the same.

I'm using this in a manual press espresso machine. Took about 4 tries to dial in the recipe but I'm getting a very even, sweet brew. Not overly acidic or bitter but would lean slightly towards bitter (full disclosure: I tend to detect bitter taste stronger than most people). Roast looks medium. I'm not enough of an expert or coffee snob to identify the fragrance or flavor notes. Purchased on Sept 8, 2022 and bag had a Best Used Before date of April 26, 2023, so I think my beans were relatively fresh for not being roast-on-demand. I think is a great bean for a South American, organic, fair trade coffee.