| | |  | italian food gifts for mom | Home » » illy Caffe Normale Whole Bean Coffee (Medium Roast, Red Top). Box of six 8.8oz coffee cans. | | | | | | | Description: | | illy is known throughout the world as the coffee of choice for people who know and love coffee. Combining authentic Italian tradition with advanced science and technology , illy has earned its reputation as the world's leading coffee authority. | | | Features: | |
• Perfect choice for those who prefer grinding the beans to suit their own individual taste and preparation method
• Coffee Type: Whole Bean, Size: 250 grams (8.8 oz) can
• Roast: Medium, perfect for any preparation
• Box of six 8.8oz Whole Bean cans
• 100% ARABICA Smooth, Perfectly Balanced Taste
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 13.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 6.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Consistent and very high qualityFeb 10, 2007
By Petur O. Jonsson
Illy espresso beans are my favorite of all the widely available commercially produced roasted espresso beans. This is the standard medium roast that Illy produces and it is a bit less aggressive and milder tasting than the dark roasts of Lavazza (the other major Italian brand that some people favor).
When properly ground, tamped, and brewed Illy espresso has a delightful aroma and flavor, unmatched by any of the other brands.
Granted, Illy is quite pricey, and I do not use it all the time for this reason. However, you get what you pay for. Usually, I buy my espresso from a small roasting house in the Midwest that produces a decent medium roast substitute that I do not mind using most of the time. But Illy definitely produces a higher quality bean.
One way to judge the quality of roasted espresso beans even before you taste the coffee that they will produce is to look at the evenness of color and size of the beans. The reason is that beans of a uniform size tend to roast more evenly than beans of varying sizes. Moreover, even when the beans are of a uniform size, it is important that they be roasted in small batches and churned during the the entire roasting process to ensure that they all get roasted to the same point. This is why most high quality coffee is roasted in small batches in a rotating drum that roasts all the beans to the exact same point. Moreover, since the moisture content of the beans varies a bit from batch to batch, quality control in the roasting process is extremely important. And it is here that Illy is unmatched. Just do a simple visual comparison of the color and consisteny of Illy beans when compared to any of the other widely available brands and you can easily see why Illy is the best.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Great coffee in even better containers!Sep 18, 2008
By George Goley
Coffee taste is a personal preference. I love coffee and Illy medium roast espresso beans are among my favorites. That's not why I buy Illy for the office however. I buy it for use in my office because the beans stay perfectly fresh in the super sturdy sealed cans for a very long time. Three month old cans open as fresh as 3 day old cans. So, I can buy 6 cans at a time, and never run out!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
my number 2 bean (sometimes)Feb 10, 2010
By Carryit
usually i like la vazza super creama and i call it my number one bean to run through my auto espresso maker but sometimes i like illy, its more robust with a good coffee flavor.
i will continue to buy it for my espresso maker.
It's expensive and delicious!Jan 23, 2012
By A. Whalen
"Car Buff, Gamer, Reader, Music Fan, Dad, Husband, etc....."
I'm a bit of a coffee snob, not a total fanatic but I have tried just about every variety under the sun, enjoy my espresso and lattes, have a favorite local coffee shop where I buy locally-roasted espresso... we have all the appropriate equipment at home and enjoy a latte every morning.
This Illy medium-roast is seriously delicious stuff. It really is extremely high-quality, perfectly roasted, nutty coffee that produces a wonderful, creamy espresso. We've had the red-top Illy a couple of times over the years and it has always been a delightful treat.
The downside: price. The locally-roasted locally-designed blend I buy (Global Village Organic Coffee, Raleigh, NC) is our staple espresso and has been for 12 years. The price inches up every few years and we now find it at $12.50/lb, which is fair for a pound of GOOD espresso (not the cigarette ash taste of Starbucks - why stop roasting there? Why not just leave the beans going for another 30 seconds and turn them in to pure carbon?). This Illy comes in at, approximately, $25/lb, about double (or even triple) what you need to spend to get a VERY good coffee bean to brew.
I guess it depends what you're looking for. For us, it's a very nice treat, something a little different in the hopper, a little special, with a long shelf life and comes out fresh when you pop open the can. But there's no way we'd buy it on a regular basis; it will never be a staple. There are other varieties (right here on Amazon!) that are comparable for 1/3 of the cost per pound, and local options available in most cities that may be comparable or better.
Still... Illy is VERY good. Worth trying at least once!
Nice change from StarbucksSep 06, 2011
By Oxford Man
I tried this coffee first from Williams Sonoma. Although it is a little pricey like all their things, some things are just worth extra. If you enjoy good coffee--give it a try. I think it is $13.95 from WS--so this is actually a better deal.
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