San Francisco Bay Coffee - Dark Roast Whole Bean Coffee - French Roast (2 lb bag)

I like to see shiny, oily, almost black colored beans when I open a bag of whole bean coffee. I know then that it is roasted the way I like it. I use the Organic Rainforest Blend in my Keurig coffee maker so I purchased the Organic Rainforest Blend whole bean for my percolator coffee maker. Great cup of coffee! Not overly dark but on the heavier medium side, smooth, and lots of flavor. The San Francisco Organic Rainforest Blend is the only coffee for me!

I have switched from a Keurig to the pour over method for my morning cup and have tried many brands of coffee. I always come back to San Franciscan. I love my coffee dark and smooth. The French Roast is also good but I prefer this extra dark Italian for it's flavor and its price.

The coffee is a true dark roast. I prepared it using the pour-over paper filter method. It cost me roughly 20 bucks, and I find it almost indistinguishable from the Costco Green and White Kirkland House Blend bag. The difference is that Costco’s offering costs about 17 bucks here and gives you an extra half pound compared to this coffee.Twenty dollars is still a good value compared to Starbucks, but for this price, I’d prefer the Lavazza Super Crema. This coffee doesn’t list a roast date—which would be very helpful (what are they hiding?)—but it does have a "best by" date in 2026. Coffee is fresh for one or two months after roasting, then starts to degrade, so that date seems like wishful thinking.To be fair, Costco also doesn’t include a roast date. They also don’t disclose where their beans are sourced from. I’ve had a few bags of Costco coffee that wouldn’t bloom when water was added. This indicates the coffee is very old and the CO₂ has dissipated. This coffee, however, bloomed quite a bit, leading me to believe it’s fresher.Overall, it’s not bad—a little on the smoky side, but not too much. I have yet to try it in the espresso maker. I may update this once I do.

I’m from New Orleans and I love medium dark and dark roast coffees. I recently switched to decaf and I bought two coffees on Amazon, this one and Kicking Horse Dark Roast decaf. I find this coffee the obvious better choice. Deep dark, roast color, oily beans, and a perfect well rounded flavor that matches caffeinated coffee taste. I will suffer finishing the Kicking Horse because I am thrifty, but the San Francisco Bay will be my coffee of choice from now on.

Until finding this product, I have found it difficult to find really good dark roast decaf coffee in whole bean form. I am very happy to have discovered this really excellent coffee! Although I usually mix this with a good dark roast non-decaf coffee (with at least half of this decaf), it is excellent by itself as well. I highly recommend it.

This is consistently good French roast coffee at a very affordable price. I have been using SF for years and I get nothing but praise for my coffee. People actually ask to drink coffee when coming to my home. I recommend it for the quality and price

I am used to the medium roast with the mild taste. This coffee is more on the dark roast side than medium roast; to my taste it is bitter and burnt.

Had to switch to this when the Bay Blend price shot up out of my acceptable range. Prefer a medium roast, but this is pretty good, didn't take long to get used to.