Sunday Drive Decaf Whole Bean

I love coffee. My doctors confirmed a heart issue. I still love coffee, so it was either drink any coffee I could get my hands on that made me giddy with pleasure and made all my troubles fade away or live longer. Let me tell you, I had a long and arduous inner dialogue going on. I completely ignored the physicians and their pedantic warnings about caffeine while I toiled and fretted over the "do you choose curtain number one or curtain number two?" dilemma. I thunk and thunk, and after I had a good thunk, I decided I'd try caffeine-free coffee again. I always likened it to hot river water. In fact, I often said, "caffeine-free coffee and tea is a waste of hot water." So, I tried some coffees and hated it. I especially hated the blasphemous processes in which some coffees are subjected to rid them of the blissful caffeine. So, I decided on the Swiss Water Process and then started looking at coffees that used THAT process. I am glad I found Verena Street, Sunday Drive, Whole Bean. It is good. It is very good. There is no metallic after taste, no acidic bite and it is as smooth as West Coast Jazz. This really is a good coffee and when I first opened the bag, I swear I heard a choir strike up Vivaldi's "Gloria." It is sooo good in the French Press and even good with Keurig if you happen to have the more advanced machine that allows hotter water and a slower, stronger brew. I buy whole bean coffee and grind it as I need it. By buying the Whole Bean, the coffee stays fresher longer and there is less oxidation going on. Store the beans in a vacuum-sealer jar, if you have it. If you also toss in a few oxygen-absorbing pads, sold separately on Amazon, then the beans stay baby fresh--and... don't store your beans in the freezer or refrigerator. Ever. Now you know!

Due to doctor's orders, I've been drinking only decaf for years, and have climbed the ladder to very high quality coffee making equipment, basically a smaller version of the powerful, heavy gear I used in a cafe I owned, or like you'd see in any good cafe. I usually switch back and forth between saving money and using Trader Joe's beans, and spending a lot for the best beans I can find as a treat, like Chris's Coffee, Peet's, Blue Bottle, Joe, Intelligensia Black Cat, Grumpy, etc, and I always have my eye open for something in the middle... a great coffee that makes espresso for americanos and milk-based drinks like lattes, cappuccinos, and my wife loves mochas with a few kinds of chocolate mixed in. Plus, her family is from Brazil, so there's the added pressure of living up to the quality of coffee they're all used to! On occasion, Costco has had 2 or 5lb bags of high quality decaf beans, but for the past year I've only found it once, every time I've been lately they have 5-8 types of excellent caff, but no decaf. So I went on the hunt on Amazon and found these beans. I didn't expect too much for about $10/lb (the same or maybe even less than Trader Joe's French Roast decaf), but the reviews were really good, and importantly, it was Swiss Water decaf, the cleanest decaf process involving no toxins or chemicals. And I (and my wife) are incredibly impressed by the quality, smell, taste, and did I say QUALITY of these beans? I hope they don't use my positive review, or all of them, to raise prices, but to be honest, I would pay a little more for these beans. I owned a cafe for 10 years and probably made close to a half a million coffee drinks in that decade, and would've been fine with these beans then or now if I opened another one. Great job, Verena - you have a new regular customer. J

Refund policy does not allow for refund if product damaged and contaminated and nit safe tor consumption!!! OK. I updated my review. I want able to return but I contacted Amazon customer service and was able to get a refund . The coffee itself is good. Mild and not bitter. I mix it half with a medium roasted caffeinated coffee 50/50 to get a richer taste.

My initial review for this was three stars. I upped it to five stars though. When I glanced at the ingredients, I thought it said artificial flavor, but what it says is that their flavored coffees have artificial flavor. This one is just straight decaf and actually taste really good. The other problem, which probably has nothing to do with the seller or manufacturer, is the way it was delivered. Amazon just delivered it as a bag of coffee with no outer wrapping so when I picked it up, the bag was ripped on the bottom and beans were coming out. If the seller has any control over Amazon, they definitely need to tell them to improve the packaging for shipment because once it gets thrown on the sidewalk for delivery, may not end well. Other than that, the product is great

This is great tasting decaf coffee. It even smells good when grinding up and smells better when boiling. Better that the smell is the taste, which is smooth and enjoyable. The Swiss Water Decaf process is done to reduce the chemicals involved in making decaf coffee, so it's better and safer for consumption.

Coffee tastes great but... the last two shipments were damaged - one with the coffee bag almost open, the last was open and spilled into the shipping bag. The open bag was dried out more than previous bags plus I'm not going to consume anything that is open before it arrives. Why not tape the coffee bag before shipping?! Subscription stopped.

Very good decaf coffee