Teasia Coffee, Timor, Single Origin, Green Unroasted Whole Coffee Beans, 5-Pound Bag

This is my first experience with Teasia green beans. I roasted them to Full City in my Gene Cafe roaster. Not sure why, but these beans took a lot longer to roast than other beans I have purchased on Amazon (eg. Ethopian, Guatamalan, Brazilian, Peruvian). It usually takes about 18 minutes for Full City but these took a full 25 minutes on the same roasting profile. This hasn't been my experience with Sumatra Mandheling from other suppliers. The resulting brew was fine...nothing special. I would probably have given the beans 3.5 stars (if that were possible). Unfortunately, while I watched the beans roast, I saw something white in the roasting drum. When the roast finished and cooled, I discovered that the white object was a rough stone, or cement particle, about the size of a pea. I'm glad that it didn't end up in my expensive grinder. Yesterday, it happened again, although the object was a bit smaller this time. I have one more 5 pound bag of the Sumatra left to roast. I will be checking the beans very closely before roasting. This has never happened to me before with any other company's beans.

It appears this brand, in 5 lb Prime bags, all have the same approx 4.5 star rating despite coming from several different source countries/regions. There are dramatic differences worldwide in how coffee beans are processed, cleaned, and sorted. Broken beans from one region tend to be the norm but not from others. Brazil, for example, exports farm co-op beans which likely go through automated equipment and are always high grade (physically). Cannot say the same for another region, where broken beans and contamination is found. This is a good supplier, but origin matters a great deal, as does your optimal roast profile for a given origin.What would be legitimately helpful, rather than rating them all as if they are the same because of mere brand (seller) name, would be to separate ratings so they apply to origin and that way, if a specific origin from this supplier has high ratings then I can buy it and evaluate the actual product (as opposed to the supplier).

It's been a few years since I had bought a bean from Ethiopia. Even though it's probably my favorite region to buy beans from, each time I go shopping for beans I seem to get enticed by a region or bean I haven't tried yet. I'm very glad I wasn't swayed to try something else once I came across this bean. Very good bean and tough to beat at this price per pound. Shipping speed and packaging was second to none. I took the first roast to full city and was met with a very smooth and flavorful cup. I'm hoping to play around with the roast a little in hopes that I find a little bolder cup...(5lbs at this price I think I can afford to take a few risks with the roast). Will definitely consider this bean and Teasia's other offerings in the future.

My first review of this bean was bad, a 1. I roasted 30% longer than I've ever roastedsecond crack bean and still it wasn't beyond mid city roast. This morning I tryed a 4th batch and decided to just keep it going until I saw smoke... Well guess what, after 10 minutes drying then almost 20 miutes on high with low airflow it began a second crack. Second crack took 7 minutes. That would cause most beans to turn to ash and smoke...not this bean. Just after cooling, the flavor profile is not bad... hopeful fairly good after a 72 hour de-gas.I'm still concerned about the low oil content and creme but we'll see.I've been roasting my own coffee for over 15 years and I've never purchased a worse green bean, especially from Papua which typically is great quality and holds up to second crack. It was tiny, with heavy husk still attached. The coffee never had a first crack or released 30% of it's chaff. It's has the least oil of any bean I've roasted. I'm thinking it must be very old green beans, poorly processed or not sourced from Papua.

My wife and I have been trying various green coffee beans from Africa for nearly a year now and we saw this Congo Kivu coffee beans and wanted to try. Teasia is known for the Tea that they sell, so no surprises that the packaging was top notch. The coffee beans are of good quality and they roast evenly in my hand roaster and I roast to City roast level typically and is recommended by SweetMaria's as well. Congo Kivu is the most fragrant of all the coffee that I have roasted and makes a decent cup of coffee as well. I am no coffee connoisseur but coffee definitely feels earthy and a bit on the sweeter side and those who know of Jaggery Molasses, it kinda reminds that because of the way it tastes. We definitely will go back to Ethiopian or Kenya coffee after this though.

5-Pound Bag Sumatra Mandheling Single Origin unroasted whole bean. Received five pounds of defective and unsorted beans = varying screen sized beans with majority (4 of the 5 pounds) being smaller than a lemon seed (indicative of cherry being picked unripe or nutrient deficiency). Unable to roast any of the 5 pounds due to following defects: (1) Insect damage - tiny holes in beans, (2) Broken/cracked beans and bean hulls, (3) Irregular shaped beans - banana shaped, (4) Black beans, (5) Shrivelled-creased beans - old and/or improper storage, (6) Vast uneven screen sized beans - no chance to get an even roast - vastly uneven bean size results in uneven roast. It is apparent that this 5 pounds of unroasted beans was not sorted for size or defects and initially unable to be sold as specialty coffee beans (specific criteria that assures quality) then passed on for sale to the commodity market. No one would buy these beans if able to see them first, which is probably why they are sold here without a return option. Can not recommend this product or seller that provides an unusable poor quality product. Future unroasted coffee beans will only be personally sourced from sellers with established reputation of consistently providing quality product (Sweet Maria's, etc.).