Fresh Roasted Coffee, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Kochere, 5 lb (80 oz), Medium Roast, Kosher, Whole Bean

Just perfect

Medium roast, bright acidity, sweet flavor! Best!

I blend this fruity, citrusy coffee bean from Fresh Roasted with Starbucks House medium roast in my Chemex to make exceptional iced coffee pourovers. The blend I use is 65% of this awesome Ethiopian Yerg with the rest house roast. They match perfectly. The Yerg provides that classic iced coffee/cold brew fruity sweetness, and the Starbucks house blend gives it just enough strong coffee backbone. I've also used this yerg for cold brew many times, and it is perfect for that too. Tastes just like you get at that expensive coffee chain. This coffee is sold at a fantastic price too! I will also say I have not noticed any flavor dropoff in these beans as it takes me a few months to go through the 5 pound bag. If you follow my pourover recipe, grind the beans to the Very Fine drip setting as you want the extraction to happen faster because you are using half the water of a normal hot brew. This is because you want the coffee dripping on ice cubes in the Chemex so their oils instantly cool and stop degrading (which causes stale coffee taste in a standard pot of hot coffee). For a 30 oz iced coffee I use 45-48 grams total in coffee beans at the 65% Yerg/35% House ratio. I use about 350 grams of ice cubes in my Chemex, add a rinsed filter, put the finely ground coffee beans in the filter, reset the scale to 0 grams and add 450 grams of boiling water. The ice flash chills the coffee, giving it a splendid iced coffee taste and preserving its delicious flavor.

I love Ethiopian coffee beans and I’ve been buying this exact coffee for years and highly recommend the flavor…why wouldn’t I! After all it’s where the whole coffee thing started with the goat herder seeing his goats eating the bean and becoming excited. Enjoy.

I've been drinking small-batch craft coffee for about a decade and usually steer clear of African beans because I find them too acidic for my taste - I'm more of a Guatemala fan. But this Ethiopian coffee completely surprised me. It’s smooth, balanced, and lacks that sharp acidity I usually associate with the region. We've been buying it exclusively for over a year now. Highly recommend for anyone who wants the complexity of Ethiopian beans without the bite.