Green Coffee Beans 227g - Unroasted Raw Beans For Home Roasters Roasting - Costa Rica Strictly Hard Bean - Brown Bear - Washed Process - Arabica Caturrai Catuai

These are great unroasted coffee beans that taste great are supporting a good cause and add a new level of customisation to your coffee experience. So the big thing with these is that they are unroasted and that is something I hadn’t tried before, so thought I would give them a go. So the method I chose to roast them was to spread them out on a baking tray and put them in the oven at 250c until they are down, I found this method online and there are lots of alternatives,l.I burnt the first batch I tried, due to trying to tell the level of roasting by looking through the oven door, but this is very difficult. With the second batch I left them in the oven for 9 minutes and this gave me a medium - dark roast, I think my next batch I will try taking out at 8 minutes to compare. But the taste of them is great, it is very smooth, even for a darker roast.

Roast them, and your house will smell incredible. Like every gorgeous little coffee shop you've ever wandered into.And once you grind the beans and taste them, it's so different to instant... it doesn't have any of that bitterness - it's just rich, and dark, and absolutely gorgeous.Am a genuine convert. It takes a little time, absolutely, but if you love coffee, and you like the idea fresh (like, fresh fresh) coffee in the morning, you can't do better than this.

The media could not be loaded. I've never roasted my own beans before so when the opportunity arose, I thought why not give it a go.There are no roasting instructions on the packaging which is a shame for us beginners so I had to research on the internet. I also don't have a proper bean roaster or a popcorn maker (apparently you can use those), so it was done in a metal steamer and in the oven at 220 Celsius for around 20 minutes.I've included a few photos as well as a little video of how I got on which I hope you find helpful, plus you can see the end result!The smell from roasting is really pleasant and slowly built up throughout the roasting time, before my whole house smelt like an industrial coffee roasters.Once the beans were roasted and ready, I put them in our coffee machine and made a double espresso to taste. The results were really good and the taste superb.One downside to all of this though is the cost. £7.49 for a 227g bag is expensive when you can get quality roasted beans for about half that price. I thought one of the benefits of roasting at home was that the cost should be reduced as the manufacturer doesn't have to pay for roasting!To conclude then, does roasting at home make for a better tasting coffee and is it worth the effort? For me, probably not. Did I have good fun giving it a go though? Yes, I did.I really enjoyed the coffee at the end and I'll be showing my kids how to roast with the remaining half a bag, but it was quite an effort to do without the proper roasting kit and there was always the fear I would mess things up and burn the beans. I think if there was a noticeable price difference then this could be a bigger incentive to roast at home, but although the resulting coffee is delicious, I think I'll still be sticking to pre-roasted beans for the most part.

Brown Bear doesn’t just make excellent coffee it is also a company with a big heart who give 5% of all their profits to help save bears.I much prefer getting green coffee beans, roasting my own coffee gives the freshest, tastiest coffee ever, you really do notice the difference, plus it makes my house smell amazing.When medium roasted these beans give a lovely full flavoured coffee with a fruity refreshing background. It is a “moreish” coffee that means one cup isn’t enough, especially in the morning. I drink mine either black or black with just a touch of milk.I really like this coffee and would get it again.

but the time consuming and energy waste to process few grams of coffee up to someone's high conneseur expectations is a bad calculation. That's just my opinion. Product wise the quality of the coffee grain beans pre and past process seems is more than promising and being not much of a challenge the hit the note spec.... except beans could be more fresh-er . Other than that is all fine. Can recommend.

Perfectly flavoured green beans that produced some lovely flavoursome coffees.No instructions given on bag for roasting. So if first time roasting, thankfully for us not a pain, for some it might be. Easy enough to find out from doing regular roasting roughly how long till we heard the beans crack. Easy to do using our roaster although it is one invented for larger batches but managed to get some great beans made into wonderful coffees. Priced at one that seems reasonable.These are green beans so need roasting first and depending on how you do just that makes a difference to your end result. Doing it with a proper roasting machine and then you get better results thereby getting a much better tasting coffee.

Lively rich tasting coffee.It has a light floral hint to it that is so smooth and goes down really easily.It’s a more sweet taste, definitely not a bitter flavour.Smells absolutely heavenly after grinding the beans and using in a French press.This ideal start to a day.

Prior to ordering these beans, I had no experience roasting coffee. I was a little skeptical after my first roast but have since learned the importance of degassing and have learned that a darker roast really brings out the character of these beans. I use a heavy wok with a thick base to evenly distribute the heat and stir with a wooden spoon. After a few roasts, I start on a high heat until the first crack, then turn down to a medium high, once I approach the second crack, I turn the heat down to a medium low for the remainder of the roast. I will certainly try other beans as well, I am really happy with how these worked for my first home-roasting experiments. For now, I'll keep re-ordering these..