Ok so I got desperate and purchased beans from a supermarket... I guess I was a bit lucky in that some of the Foodland's here in SA stock Rio coffee and the roast date can be within a week. In my case I got beans which were roasted 7 days ago.
I decided to buy the Australian beans as these were the freshest. The packet (and their website) states: "Sourced exclusively from a single plantation in the most southern coffee growing region in the world—Australia". Does anyone know where this plantation would be? I'm not sure if it was just because I've been roasting Thai and Indo beans lately but these Aussie beans were enormous!
Has anyone tried these before? They don't taste too bad. Definitely not as good as roasting your own fresh.
I decided to buy the Australian beans as these were the freshest. The packet (and their website) states: "Sourced exclusively from a single plantation in the most southern coffee growing region in the world—Australia". Does anyone know where this plantation would be? I'm not sure if it was just because I've been roasting Thai and Indo beans lately but these Aussie beans were enormous!
Has anyone tried these before? They don't taste too bad. Definitely not as good as roasting your own fresh.

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