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It is very smooth without leaving an acidy taste in your mouth.like drinking a desert. This is my favorite coffee. I don't drink it every day because it is a bit pricey, but whenever I have guests, I serve them illy.it is nice to let them feel special that I am sharing this treat with them. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a nice smooth cup of coffee. They don't burn their beans.
Fancy coffee packaging. The quality of beans is very good. The reason for 3 stars is the price. I find Lavazza Tierra which %100 Arabica like Illy has the same quality or better for a fraction of the price of Illy beans.
Having drunk a bit of coffee and done some experimentation at home with our own grinder and espresso machine, we always come back to Illy.Can't go past it, perfect every time.
When properly ground, tamped, and brewed Illy espresso has a delightful aroma and flavor, unmatched by any of the other brands. The reason is that beans of a uniform size tend to roast more evenly than beans of varying sizes. Illy espresso beans are my favorite of all the widely available commercially produced roasted espresso beans. 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. And it is here that Illy is unmatched. Granted, Illy is quite pricey, and I do not use it all the time for this reason. 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.
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. 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). 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. However, you get what you pay for. But Illy definitely produces a higher quality bean. Moreover, since the moisture content of the beans varies a bit from batch to batch, quality control in the roasting process is extremely important. 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.
I make espresso with a Delonghi Magnifica Super Auto Espresso machine and I have found Illy Medium Roast to produce the best results possible. It's a little more expensive than buying beans locally but the difference is astounding.
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