10 Lb, Single Origin Unroasted Green Coffee Beans, Specialty Grade From Single Nicaraguan Estate, Direct Trade (Caturra Varietal)

I absolutely adore this coffee and most coffees from Central to South America. This is the most inexpensive way to get the absolute best quality coffee is to buy your green unroasted beans and roast them yourself. Don’t be fooled by gimmicks. You can roast coffee in a good stainless steel pan with a couple of wooden spatulas or wooden spoons over a medium heat. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes to a medium roast. Longer if you want it darker but that’s the beauty you get to choose. There’s also some delicious coffee from the Honduras that I have my eyes on, I better go buy 10 pounds of that now too

Great flavor! I did a medium and dark roast. Both are full of flavor. Low acidity. Quality is great, it was fresh upon arrival and makes for a smooth coffee.

They are both quality beans with very few bad or broken beans. But I preferred the Caturra more. The Parainema variety had too much of an acidic finish. I tried the Caturra first and at just about any roast it came out really nice. The Parainema was roasted to medium and a slightly darker roast and mixed the roasts at a 2:1 medium to dark ratio. I'm tempted to try a blonde roast and see if that makes it more tolerable on the finish. My Roasting Method: I used a 1475 Watt popcorn popper with about 2 ounces in each batch. It took about 5 minutes to reach first crack and about 1-3 minutes after it began the second crack and then I pulled it off the heat during second crack. Brewing Method: This is where I might have gone wrong and will update my review if the acidic finish is just from using water that was too hot. I measured out 15 grams of coffee for 8 ounces of water. put the grounds in the hot water and let it steep for 3 minutes. Agitated it a few times and it created a dark cup of coffee with a very nice thick foam on top. Taste(Parainema Variety): It has a very silky mouthfeel, extremely easy to drink, with a depth of flavor, very smooth and easy on the palette. Then a lingering acidic aftertaste that just doesn't go away. It's just interesting how the finish is in such contrast with the initial taste. In the end the over-acidic finish was just overwhelming and will have to experiment to see if I can get that down a bit. I understand that this is a characteristic of this bean and there are many brewing methods that can change that profile a bit, so will experiment with different roasts, temperatures and brewing methods to try and make a less acidic result.

Great quality, tasted best when roasted medium!

roasts evenly and has a wonderful depth of aroma and flavor

I love this coffee. It roasts very evenly and has a great flavor. I buy it on repeat.

Now i'm going to give this a 3 for now, since i'm new to roasting coffees. (might just be me) When i first got the coffee, i was looking at websites to see how long to roast. I heard 1st popping for medium and first picture does look like that. It was still green/nutty non coffee tasting at this point though. I did a 2nd roast to how i like a dark shiny oils coming out roast. This coffee was sweet, and smooth, yet finished with a light bitterness, which i heard can be from roasting, so i'm going to try going just slightly less. 1st batch, med high gas stovetop with nuvo roaster, till i noticed first color on beans, then reduced to between low/high setting and sat 10 seconds, stir 10 seconds till 10 minutes. Result med bland roast, no flavor. 2nd roasting the blacker beans above was at medium heat, but constant stirring, lot more popping, almost all the way to a 15 minute mark, which i hovered over the fire about 3-4 inches stiring constantly. As you can see the roast looks awesome, like store bought beans with fresh oils coming out. The flavor like a mild smooth coffee, but just had that slight bitterness at the end. If i can figure out how to get that out, i'd give this 5 stars. I'm going to try different variety of beans using same dark roast method and will report back if it's just this type of bean. Anyways, for the price though, you're getting a lot of quality uniform beans, this coffee might be better for a blend.

Bought for my son's new coffee roaster as a present. They roast beautifully, and make lovely coffee. We've used a medium roast (about 24 minutes at 180°C, but it varies with weight of beans); when cool we sieve to remove the chaff and then leave a day before starting to use, medium getting in a cafètiere). Great fun, lovely coffee, amazing aroma from roasting.

I have been home roasting for several years and have enjoyed beans from around the world but this one is my new favourite! This bean is great at a medium roast but got some amazing results when I tried a darker, oily roast, too. And the extra bonus that it comes directly from a family’s farm in Nicaragua, makes it even more enjoyable.

Lovely mild taste when brewed unroasted. Worked well as an appetite suppressant too.

This is an excellent Central American bean, just lovely. I roasted to first crack and enjoyed the results. It is mild, sweet, some cocoa notes - truly delicious! And what a great price for such a clean, high quality bean. I will definitely continue to order.

Brilliant. Greatly packaged and easy to use. Experimenting with coffee bean roasting is good with these.