BROOKLYN COFFEE Whole Bean, French Dark Roast (5lb) Silky Smooth, Bold, Balanced - Fresh Bulk Coffee Beans Roasted Weekly in NYC

This coffee is FANTASTIC! Super smooth, no bitterness. If you are looking for a great medium bodied coffee, this is it. Highly recommend it.

For me, there are few thing in life as enjoyable as a great cup of coffee.. I love the taste of coffee with nothing added.. that has a strong, rich flavor...not acidic, not bitter, with no astringent aftertaste.. I favor the very dark jet black beans with a little of the oily sheen.. This is really, really good.. I shared some with 2 of my work colleagues who have similar tastes and they also really liked it. This is the best mail order coffee I have found so far...

This is excellent coffee and 5lbs of whole bean lasts a very long time. For over a year for me. I just place it in gallon sealed jars with oxygen absorbers and voila good cup of coffee when desired. This is my 2nd time buying in bulk. Comes to roughly $.16 per cup made how I like it. I purchased 12 bottles of mocha.coffee for nearly $3 a bottle. Bought 5 lbs for $60 and 20 oz of hershey's syrup for $8. Do the math. I reuse the bottles. Can freeze freshly squeezed juice in them. Perfect for summer!

Good quality rich flavor. Have been buying this brand for years, however now am buying from another sorce This is because of the latest of many price increases over the years have finally made them no longer competitive with other quality brands.

An excellent product

First, lemme paint a picture: my wife races around the house, snarfing down a quick K-cup or two before battling with the morning traffic that our region is notorious for. She needs strong, kick-your-butt coffee with afternotes of bitter frustration and skin-twisting angst. This coffee is not for her. (edit: She loves it, and has asked me to start making it for her as well!) At the tail end of her cyclone of rushiness, I stumble down the stairs, 20 minutes before my work starttime, because I work from home in the basement. I have to wash my face a little, to get the sleep out of my eyes, let the dog out real quick, then the two of us fumble around the kitchen with his breakfast and my slowpoke sustenance. It starts at the burr grinder, which has been finely tuned over many weeks of experimentation. I put on the water to boil, then I use my special little scoopy thing with the built-in funnel on top to transfer from the collector on the grinder to an inverted Aeropress, doubling the recommended dose. Like a kid with his nose pressed to the store window at Christmas, I wait for the water to boil while I resist the temptation to think about my day ahead. When almost boiling, I pour the water into the press and start the timer on the stove - I cannot help but think of Europe's "Final Countdown" while I wait for all that dark, velvety goodness to leach into the hot water. I then flip the Aeropress onto my cup, lean on it for a while with my least-hurty elbow and shoulder doing the work, and complete the work that reliably leads to the best few minutes of my day (on the weekdays, anyway.) My coffee needs are simple: I need a drink that's so dark that it can represent both bright joy and sullen misery, depending on the events of my life. I need it thick, so you are forced to take your time when consuming it. I need it NOT BITTER - those subtle afternotes that coffee connoisseurs rave about on expensive coffees are not for me. This is that coffee. It is chocolate cake and a plush blanket. It's a giant bag of excellent coffee, shipped fresh-as-heck (I was shocked at how fresh it was). Despite the oily appearance, it grinds silky-smooth, and the taste is meaty, well-developed, and capable of full body with low acidity and juuuuuuust enough bitter to still call it coffee. When my local big-box store stopped roasted their 2.5 bags in-house, I bought 10 bags of the last batch and hoarded them like it was the end of the world. I have found my replacement - it is now safe to repopulate the earth with hope and awakening. Thank you, Olde Brooklyn, for delivering me from my despair. This is a damn fine coffee for dark roast lovers, and you will be rewarded with regular orders from me. Don't ever change.

Now this is exactly what I have been looking for. I was stationed in Sicily back in the late 80’s and haven’t had an expresso that matches those until now. Excellent caffeine jolt. Exactly the same taste. Dark roasted without any bitterness. Highly recommend!

I've tried several coffees in the past year. This ITALIAN Dark Roast Whole bean – 5 LB is perhaps not the *best* coffee, but it ranks very highly. The price makes it even better. At $.52/ounce, it blows away other coffees that I might like better. I'm not finished experimenting, not by a long shot, but this is very good coffee that I'm willing to serve to family and guests. I like the 5 pound bag. I grind about twice a week, about 1/2 pound at a time. The remainder gets resealed, and put inside of an airtight plastic canister. It stays fresh right up until the last batch of grinding. What does it taste like? Well, it has that sorta chocolatey taste that people talk about. There are flavors that linger on the upper pallete and at the back of the tongue. It's just a nice, full bodied, satisfying taste (and aroma) that competes with many other, much more expensive brands of coffee. Some reviewers have commented on the oily beans. Yes, these are somewhat oily. Those oils contain the aromatics that give coffees their distinctive flavors. It seems to me that those oily beans are a requirement for good, dark roast coffees. I'm giving this coffee 5 stars.