URL Copied! An Evanston coffee aficionado was struggling to locate unroasted beans, so one of our producers lent a hand. Nehidu Romero displays a green Mexican coffee bean with a roasted Mexican coffee bean at Apffels Coffee Roasters in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 16, 1998. Nov 16, 2023, 12:59pm CT Since he moved to Chicago from Seattle, John searched high and low for green coffee beans.