Napoli Whole Bean Coffee, Dark Roast, 2.2lb

Some of the best Italian Coffee I have ever had. Family served this to me the first time I visited Italy. Been drinking it ever since.

Great tasting coffee

The best coffee in the world

As someone who usually buys freshly roasted dark roasts, I went out on a limb and picked up this 2.2 lb bag of Kimbo Napoletana as a stop gap measure while I waited for my next shipment of fresh beans. As expected, the Kimbo beans were not freshly roasted. Instead, the bag indicated they were roasted on August 23, 2023 and shipped to me around a year later. The “best by” date was August 22, 2025. So we’re dealing with beans that are a year old. Despite this, I don’t think they taste bad at all. The smell of the beans is not pleasant to me, but once they are brewed in my espresso machine, they taste like a traditional Italian roast with a good amount of robusta and produce a good amount of crema. The taste is also smooth with just a hint of bitterness. I was able to get the espresso to taste sweet with the correct brewing conditions.

This is a review of Kimbo's Espresso Napoletano dark roast whole bean coffee. Ordered this looking for a stronger espresso than what I had been having. The description of a Neapolitan flavor appealed to me, having lived in Naples years ago. It is also one of the few dark roast coffees available in whole beans. The package arrived in a padded envelope, which was just sufficient protection. It came in 2 days. Though ordered in April 2023, the beans are labeled "production 29/09/21." That's a two year-old harvest. It is not clear when they were roasted. It also reads "Expiry 29/09/23." Personally, I would not expect coffee to last two years. I have brewed a few cups now with my Lelit PL41 machine. I make espresso, cafe cortado, and cappuccino. I find the coffee to be quite nice overall. The flavor is robust with a pleasant, lingering mild bitterness, and stands up nicely to the milk additions. It does have the true, Neapolitan richness. I can only wonder how much better it would be if it were fresh. I will order again and if I ever get a fresh batch may well upgrade my review and give it the fifth star.

My favorite coffee. We order it every month

Great coffee fast shipping

For a bag of beans from Amazon, the roast date being almost 4 months ago is not too bad. If I want fresh I have to go local. That said I’ve tried their ground variation of this coffee before and while it’s messier to use with my espresso machine and a pressurized filter basket, it was interesting and reminded me of an Italian espresso. Unfortunately getting to know the whole beans, they were very inconsistently roasted with several almost light yellow and all differing and sizes while others were medium and most were dark. This made things interesting in dialing in the espresso where I would have to go a little courser to get the extraction I needed but it still left the puck pretty muddy. Overall for the price I expect a much better coffee and I reached out to Amazon for a refund. Maybe it will be fine in a cortado or latte where you won’t notice the inconsistent flavors in a straight espresso.

Kimbo’nun bu ürünü genel olarak oldukça başarılı. Aroması ve tonlamaları kendine özgü, gayet dengeli. Sadece kavrulma seviyesi bana göre biraz yüksek olsa da, lezzet profili genel anlamda çok tatmin edici.

Really like this one. Strong espresso, beans are a bit oily so for an automatic machine maybe not the perfect beans but I like the flavor enough to simply clean the machine more often.

These have become my go to beans and it's easy to see why. An 80% Arabica and 20% Robusta blend, roasted in the classic Neapolitan tradition, giving a rich, full bodied espresso with a dense, long lasting crema every time. The taste is smooth rather than harsh, with notes of dark chocolate and light spice coming through without any unpleasant bitterness. It works just as well as a straight espresso or in milk based drinks like a latte or cappuccino, holding its character either way.

Caffè eccellente ad un ottimo prezzo

Très bon café Italien de Naples