Great price for a monster amount of coffee that is perfect. Colombian is my favorite, eventually I will branch out to try the other wonderful sounding flavors offered by Coffee Bean Direct. I love the aroma from the opening of the bag to grinding to brewing. Once opened I store in mason jars, I'm personally not a fan of freezing coffee. I am a coffee fiend, I have a hand grinder just in case the power goes out, I can still have coffee available. It is so wonderful to be able to get 5 pounds of this delicious coffee. Perfect coffee, IMHO.

I bought the Jamaican Blue Mountain Style coffee (which isn't Jamaican Blue Mountain - they do state that clearly - but tries to imitate it).

I've had a blend with real Jamaican Blue Mountain before (mixed with other beans to enhance the flavor - and lower the cost), and was hoping for something that heavenly again. This wasn't it. It makes a good cup of coffee, maybe even above average. If they weren't comparing it to Jamaican Blue Mountain, I might even call it great...maybe.

I can't tell by looking if beans are old or stale, as some people have said in other comments - but the expiration on the bag was over a year out, which is usually a good sign. There wasn't much aroma when I opened the bag, and the freshly ground and brewed coffee doesn't have a lot of aroma, either. I re-bagged the beans into smaller containers, so hopefully the last cup I brew will be nearly as good as the first - but 5 pounds is a lot of coffee. It makes the price affordable, though, so that keeps it from being a bust - under $9/lb for good coffee is acceptable.

All things being equal, though, one day I'm going to splurge on real Jamaican Blue Mountain again. Until then...I might give this another try if the price is right. It's certainly drinkable, just not outstanding. Maybe this weekend I'll see if french press (rather than the quality drip coffeemaker I'm using) can get more out of it.

Definitely not a dark French Roast. The beans are a deep brown, grind up to a medium brown and at 2 TBSP per cup brew up to a decent, low acid medium roast coffee but not at all what I would expect of a product labelled "French Roast" My grinder is a Breville ceramic burr - with a lower end grinder I could see the results being far more disappointing. Won't order this variety again and don't recommend to anyone who prefers a true Dark Roast coffee.

Just made my first pot with these beans... a very smooth Costa Rican roast.

The beans are not oily and seem pretty fresh. A nice medium roast and an excellent breakfast coffee...

I'd rank this up there with some of the better local brands. Once I went to Costa Rica, I found out how nice their coffee was...

This did not disappoint.. highly recommend.

For some reason I just really don't like these beans. I don't like the flavor or mouth feel. I wish I'd been able to get a smaller sample before gambling on a huge bag, a gamble which did not pay off. I was looking for less oily beans than the typical roast I get locally, and they were a bit less oily which is good considering it is a french roast... but I just can't drink the coffee. I need to find a friend or someone to give these to and save them from the trash.