Organic Camano Island Coffee Roasters Sumatra, Dark Roast, Whole Bean, 5-Pound Bag

by Camano Island Coffee Roasters

Product Features

• The most socially responsible, highest grade coffee on the market
• Certified organic
• Shade grown and fairly traded
• Dark roast - reflects the smoky characteristics of the roast itself
• Camano island coffee roasters commits to only carrying the highest grade green coffee available - the top 1% of the coffee market to be exact

Product Description

Our organic Sumatra is among the world's finest coffees displaying rich flavor, extraordinary full body and distinctively vibrant, low-key acidity. Rich and complex, our Sumatra is fruity, sweet and full bodied. The nutty undertones serve to accentuate the deep, rich flavor of this Indonesian coffee. This coffee is a perfect treat, day or night but makes an exceptionally delicious dessert coffee.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000V9PGSG
• UPC: 890902002260
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,662 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #43 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Beverages > Coffee, Tea & Cocoa > Coffee > Whole Bean

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend this Sumatra Dark Roast, February 6, 2009

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pabear - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Organic Camano Island Coffee Roasters Sumatra, Dark Roast, Whole Bean, 5-Pound Bag (Grocery)

I just recieved this coffee and I have brewed about 20 cups of coffee so far. I use a burr grinder and a very nice Starbucks drip coffee maker. In fact, I am enjoying a cup of the cofffe right now after dragging my lazy behind out of bed at 9am<g>.

I am very pleased with this roast. The beans arrived fresh and well packed with a valve on the heavy poly bag. The beans are of a uniform roast with a nice oily sheen throughout. There is no chaff mixed in with the beans. I do some home roasting of my own beans so I have an idea of what the process is and I can state confidently that these are well roasted, cleaned of chaff and that the roast is in fact a dark roast.

The coffee tastes just as I like it, a full rich flavor without that acidic slightly burned flavor of a French roast. The taste is very smooth and rich, the main traits that attracted me to Starbucks coffee, craft roasters and eventually home roasting.

I get free shipping from Amazon and I bought this on their subscription program, so it cost me $31 plus tax. I think this is a very good price and I would gladly make this roast my daily brew.

I recommend this roast without reservation.

-Mike

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit "Hit or Miss", April 13, 2010

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Jack Happens (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Organic Camano Island Coffee Roasters Sumatra, Dark Roast, Whole Bean, 5-Pound Bag (Grocery)

I have been chasing that perfect cup for some time now, lately through Amazon by buying and splitting the bags with a neighbor. I use a press, the neighbor goes drip. The first bag of this Sumatra was the best consumer coffee that either of us had ever found. It shipped to us extremely fresh, still working off gas in the bag and foaming in my press pot. The aroma from the bag was strong and wonderful and it carried through to the press and into the cup. Bag #1 was easily the best coffee either of us had ever brewed.

The second bag was quite a disappointment, not stale but also not really fresh, with only marginal aroma in the bag and not even recognizable as coffee in the cup. However, even at that the flavor still matched up close to our previous best finds here at Amazon- about the Fogbuster level. We decided to give it another try, and bag #3 was somewhere in between, but still only a pretender when compared to that first bag.

One interesting thing about this coffee, which I have experienced with no other: I am single and make a press first thing in the morning. Then (coffee connoisseurs stop reading now) warm additional cups up in the microwave as the morning goes on. Something about this coffee takes the microwave rewarming far, far better than any other coffee I have ever used. I don't understand why, but it does- all the way into the evening if need be (OK, I'll admit it, sometimes even overnight). Single guy, what can I say, but that is a significant bonus for me.

My shipments come from Lexington, KY. I assume Amazon has warehouses around the country. Part of my fresh/not-so-fresh problem might be due to the volume consideration and turnaround at that particular warehouse. We have decided to give the Sumatra one more try but I feel we will more than likely be moving along after bag #4. I'll let you know how it goes.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars yummy coffee, March 11, 2009

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Icehouse Morrison "Cowboy" (Pacific NW) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Organic Camano Island Coffee Roasters Sumatra, Dark Roast, Whole Bean, 5-Pound Bag (Grocery)

We've been experimenting with whole bean coffees. We love the rich flavor of Camano Island coffee. The is no bitter taste and good aroma too. It's my coffee of choice, try it you'll love it.