Wallenford's 100% Jamaica Blue Mountain Roasted Whole BeanCoffee - Authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Beans, Blue Mountain Coffee from Jamaica - 16oz

These are superb beans, worthy of your best brewing technique. The roast is medium to light, giving the beans a smooth, dry look with no oils on the surface (which I suppose implies that they are still inside the bean, waiting to be extracted during brewing). I found the beans to be quite uniform in shape and size, with very few cracked or damaged.Although I couldn't find a roast date on the bag, they came to me fresh...sometimes, I notice the more expensive beans tend to be past their prime - this isn't one of those, at least not in the batch I got.I'm amazed at the difference in taste, depending on how you brew it. Ground to a very fine espresso roast, you get amazingly good espresso...a distinct sweet and chocolate taste, though perhaps a bit light on crema. We grind 10 grams per shot, tamp to 30 pounds, set a five second pre-infusion and 30 second brew at 198 degrees. Glorious - perhaps the best shot of espresso I've ever had.Grind it a bit more coarsely, and you get a fantastic result in the French press...not as heavy or sweet, with a smooth and more pronounced "coffee" flavor. Totally different character than the same bean prepared in the espresso machine.Anyway, if you like a smooth, mild coffee, you owe it to yourself to try some of these beans...in the right hands, it makes some of the best coffee you'll ever taste.

I made the sorry mistake of buying blue mountain coffee while in Jamaica during cruise. Once I was home and tried it, I couldn’t and still cannot, own or buy any other kind of coffee. The reason I’m “sorry” is because it’s expensive but lord have mercy, it’s just sooooo good!This was a new brand for me as I had only tried Jablum but this was slightly more affordable but JUST as delicious. The flavor is perfection. So smooth. Not bitter. I didn’t even know I was drinking bitter coffee until I tried blue mountain coffee! It’s a huge difference. Smelling the coffee grounds before putting it in my coffee machine has become a favorite thing to do - I’ve never been that way about coffee before - like what? My favorite thing to do is smell coffee grounds before making coffee? It sounds so weird lol but this kind of coffee has really brought out a side in me I never knew and I’m grateful. My day is always better when I can start it with this coffee....I wake up earlier to make it and enjoy it before work. It’s that good. I’m compromising sleep!My only complaint is the cost - for coffee it really is expensive 😞

This was the second time I purchased this coffee from this seller, the first pound was exactly how I knew JBM coffee tasted like, but this second pound was nothing like what JBM coffee tastes like, the coffee was very bitter and tasted like some decaf instant coffee. This was an embarrassing Xmas present to give my wife, I am seriously thinking of dumping the remaining beans in the garbage, at over $60 a pound it really is a shame. The one star is no reflection on the seller just the coffee I received, the seller shipped and packaged the coffee just fine.Update...... I was contacted by Wallenford regarding the bad coffee I received, after a few emails with their customer service it turned out that it seems the seal had broken on the pound off coffee I received which in turn had turned the coffee bitter, Wallenford customer service is second to none, I did not contact them but they did read the review and reached out to me replacing the bad coffee, I can say now that the Wallenford coffee is a great cup of coffee, exactly how I remembered it to taste, perfect first pot of coffee from the new pound. Thank You

I had bought a few pounds of Wallenford JBM coffee years ago on a trip to Jamaica and remember it being awesome coffee. We drank a ton of it at the resort that we stayed at and it really made an impression, such that I have wanted to experience it again. A couple of years ago I asked a co-worker visiting Jamaica to bring me back a pound and they brought me back a bag of Jablum beans, which I found disgusting. Last I had checked the Wallenford was about 40 per pound, now I see it is going for 30 for only 8oz... :( but I decided to splurge and get myself 8 oz of beans. They were ground in my ceramic burr grinder and percolated in my small 16oz coffee pot at a very low temp about 10-15 min to achieve a good color and I have to say, the flavor just isn't there. Yes it is OK, but not what I remember, not "full" and robust. I tried increasing the grounds several times, and varying the percolate time, and these beans just could not achieve the robust full flavor. Using about 55 grams of beans = about six bucks for a single cup, and this does not equate to that good of a cup of coffee... I will not waste my money on these again as local roasters can provide much better beans.