Found this on clearance at my local club and am so glad I tried it. I love deep, dark roasts and this fits that bill perfectly. It's great for pour-over or french press, IMO, and is a bargain. I had to reorder online (not in stores) and have it on auto-ship now. Great value, Thanks Sams for carrying this.

As longtime addicts to Seattle Smack...Sam’s offers an amazing step up to robust flavor and gourmet quality without the Jessie James “hands up” experience of the fork-tailed mermaid. Great price! Great Coffee! Great Caesar’s ghost, Clark! Drink up!

The coffee is absolutely wonderful. So why the 3 star review? The bag.... the bag is absolute garbage. The ziplock seal busted when opening the package for the first time. Unprepared for this, the coffee had to go into a clear ziplock bag. Not the best place to keep coffee beans.

Sam's has stopped carrying the brand we usually buy in store, so we bought this to hold us over until our order arrived. Waste of money! The beans look very light, have little oil to them and smell awful. When ground they aren't any better. Might as well have bought Folger's, because that's what it looks and tastes like.

I don't know what has happened to this coffee in the last year but the quality and flavor (read lack therof) is signigicantly worse. In the last year we made two online purcheses. The first was drinkable but decidedly worse than when we first tried this brand/flaver after 8 o'clock started to disappear from grocer shelves. Recently we ordered 6 bags and not one of them wpould make me reordrer. 8 O'clock Dark Italian Roast is back but only in 11.5 oz bags @ $4.53+ or $15.71 for the 3.47 bags = 40oz.. Do yourself a favor - SKIP THIS ONCE DECENT coffee#?)

First off. Let me say, I am a dark roast kinda person. I love French toast, espresso, Italian, etc. I don’t like flavored coffees..I like good quality, strong coffee. This is none of the those. It’s not strong. It’s not flavorful. I have to add 4 heeling spoonfuls for 2 cups of water. Yuck!

The new packing does not allow a vacuum seal. The old aluminum packing often got a minor tear or puncture that would break the vacuum seal, but could at least start out vacuum sealed. The last time we ground coffee, the static charge on the beans sent ground coffee throughout our kitchen! It was a big mess to clean up & the beans weren't as fresh smelling. We are going to be buying our coffee from another source.

I normally buy Starbucks whole bean from Sams Club, but they were out the last time I went. This coffee tastes like any bad coffee you've ever had in at some roadside diner. When you open a bag of Starbucks, the beans are very dark, oily and extremely aromatic. These are very light colored, washed , dry and stale smelling. Not sure how they can call this French Roast! Pay the extra $3 and get the Starbucks.

This was my favorite coffee. Oily darkly roasted beans full of flavor. Now the beans aren't nearly as dark, lack the oily look and taste like regular roast coffee. The packaging is inconsistent the bags are not vacuumed sealed correctly which lets air in. coffee is now poor quality

My local club stopped selling the french roast we loved (starbucks french roast whole bean, if I can say that). The daily chef coffee is a dry medium roast, nothing like a french roast should be. Starbucks beans, when fresh, are oily, not bitter at all and make a great cup of coffee. I bought these to replace starbucks french roast and regret it. A complete waste of money, buy maxwell house or folgers before wasting your money on this.