Part of monthly specials, looks like a decent deal. Coffex coffee beans 1kg for $17.99, originally $22.99. Currently $51 (down from $56) plus delivery from Coffex direct.
Medium roast, notes of tropical fruit, underlying caramel tone and sweet almond. Brew guide: 93°C, 18-20g in, 40-44g out.
Best before 08/2027, so possibly roasted in 08/2025.
seems to be the case with most/all Costco Coffee tbh
Reckon Grinders Giancarlo is very good.
Agree, one of my favourites. I didn't mind this coffex one tbh, good but not great
Subjective but will confirm once tried.
What made it bad? Burnt taste? How was it compared to aldi beans or any other supermarket option?
In general coffee beans are best consumed fresh within a couple of weeks of roasting.
I highly recommend you try 'fresh' beans from a local roaster or elsewhere, you'll be able then to compare the golden crema of the freshly roasted beans against any supermarket offering - it really is observable.
The link below is just a suggested option for you to purchase fresh.
ardi is an absolute bomb
That’s an opinion, another opinion is “crema” is pretentious and overrated …
@bowtiehoon: Yeah sure, but that opinion would be wrong ;-)
edit: sorry @bowtiehoon my initial reply was probably a little unfair.
As a home roaster and someone with an 'obvious' coffee interest I've tasted coffee on day one of roasting all along the gamut.
Coffee is not at its best straight after roasting as it is still considered green and needs a little time to develop its flavour, but generally as it gets to the big retailers it is well past its prime.
I can confirm that after a couple of weeks of roasting it is observable/tastable (is tastable even a word? lol) that the flavour diminishes from the cup.
I appreciate that as an avid colesworth/costco buyer this may seem a personal attack on you (and it isn't), my real purpose here is to encourage you to 'try' fresh roasted coffee (which hopefully supports a local roaster in the process) and to make up your own mind.
Enjoy your coffee adventure :-)
@shutuptakemymoney101: I don’t take it as a person attack :)
Each to their own.
I’ve had two year old beans that I stored by accident and they were fine and three week roasted coffee that I was fine with too.
All I know is anything is better than instant lol
@bowtiehoon: Yeah definitely agree about instant, I gave it up soon after discovering home espresso. lol
Definitely lots of flavours to discover with coffee, my current favourite is Twilight blend.
https://airjo.com/collections/coffee
Whatever you choose, hope you enjoy it :-)
@shutuptakemymoney101: Reading your comments, you sound like a pretentious coffee w@nker…and then you post this
my current favourite is Twilight blend.
dammit, apparently I'm one too.
Just grabbed one. Can you give more details? How bad is it?
Why not return it to costco
Costco has a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
Please return your Oz Bargain membership card, Sir.
I work for the roastery that makes the stuff, and yeah i’d go with a different brand of coffee personally.
Why not return it?
How does this compare to Aldi Lazzio Medium roast? Aldi has bumped up their prices crazy last couple months
cheaper then lazio medium roast whole beans by $2.
I THINK my local aldi now sells medium whole beans for 22 a kg, but I'd have to double check to be certain. Prettu sure when I started buying it about 6 months ago they were 17$
Could have sworn couple weeks back Brazil beans from Aldi were $24.99/kg but noticed today they were $26.99/kg. Seems to be never ending price hikes at the moment.
Actually, I recently ditched Aldi beans, they were very dry and flavour was quite flat. It may have been a bad batch because It was ok in the past.
I bought this at Costco a week ago and are quite happy with bean quality and freshness, good cream, it is comparable to usual Aldi quality, probably even better
Aldi's premium range is good, their regular stuff is average.
Which aldi bean would you suggest for flatwhites?
I liked Guatemala, Mrs hated it.
We're trying Ethiopia tomorrow, roast date was 9 days old when I bought it.
@TEER3X: I bought a bag of the Ethiopian ones to calibrate a machine.
Still going with it, it isn’t too bad.
@Manny Calavera: I haven't been able to get a decent tasting coffee out of the Ethiopian beans, weird (cheap) whisky-like taste to them.
Back to Giancarlos for me. Ethiopia will get the cold brew treatment.
The luxe beans (purple bag) were really good but then I got a bad bag with a horrible off taste in it… So bad that I requested a swap and even the second bag was terrible (but a little better). Not sure if it was a batch issue but it killed it for me.
My last pack of Aldi Medium roast was also way below average. Not too sure if I give it another try or go for another brand now.
your comparing the aldi dark roast to this medium roast. different flavour profile.
I think all coffee has declined in quality because of the cost of beans.
Unless you're paying top dollar, I agree 👍
I think cost hasn't helped but its likely more complicated than that. I think America is pushing Colombian beans over Brazilian beans due to the tariffs (and Costco is American). Afaik Colombia isn't able to consistently supply the volumes with uniform quality that Brazil does. I suspect climate change isn't helping either.
Fwiw the coffee I have consumed tastes just as good as it did before it's just pricier
qty of coffee used and grind for me is the biggest differentiator between good and bad coffee, but then i make mugs of milky drinks, the price hikes makes me more flexible brand wise as i use 22gms in a mug of coffee. both coles and woolies seem have their own brands with trendy names to back fill the sub $30 kg shoppers, not sure if 100% arabica or has robusta in it, don’t say on bag.
Agreed it impacts the taste massively. Also the ratio of espresso to milk and the amount of water pulled through each shot (I guess the latter is also similar to the qty of coffee but the other variable) and the freshness of the beans/how they are stored.
I also embarrassingly wasn't aware of how frequently we should be cleaning the internals on a delonghi auto espresso machine (not just descale and clean tabs/solution style cleaning but actually removing parts and brushing off buildup). Since increasing to a minimum of weekly there has been some improvement in flavour/more consistent coffees.
This may be unpopular but I honestly think the supermarket beans (so long as they are fresh) make great coffee if you are on top of maintaining your machine and dialling it in properly. Specialty beans of course will make better coffee but for a regular/casual drink supermarket beans are more than adequate Imo.
Also agree. Unfortunately gone with aldi for a while. But now since gone up so much in last year consider changing to better. Also not sure just me but seem like it taste more burnt now (last few months) then a year or so back. Wondering if they changed something
Found it to be ok. Bit fruity and not very strong. But with some good coffee machine tweaking and pulling it at max strength I have found that it takes like a mocha without needing to add chocolate.
$17 is good value and yeh its weak and fruity but tastes fine but not better than Aldi Medium for black or milky coffees.
The cost of beans is crazy atm. At my local I usually get a 250g for $20-25 as a treat but its getting ridiculous.
Worst coffee i have ever tasted, threw the whole bag away and cleaned out my coffee machine afterwards
Why was it the worst? I haven't tried it so weighing up whether to try or not.
Why threw the bag away? It couldn't be so bad that it's undrinkable?
It's roasted by Bean Alliance, do they not know what they are doing? Or do they roast bad beans under Coffex to make their other brands stand out? Or do they send bad batches to Costco on the cheap?
Bad bad coffee. Threw my bag away