posted 1 year ago
here in south america we eat a lot of beans, of all kinds.
we ALWAYS "select" the beans first to pick out any that have mold or damage. occasionally a batch will have some- generally the mold will appear on a bean that was crushed or otherwise damaged. the top two pictures look like a few individual beans have mold, but the others look fine. the black beans, it could just be dust (often beans are dusty). I'd pick out broken/smashed/moldy/strangely lumpy beans and sample the others if you are noting strange smells. but just saying, often isolated beans are bad, and we simply pick them out (i'd be there picking out stones anyway, not cracking any teeth on beans!) and wash the beans before soaking, and the rest are just fine.
EDITED TO ADD: these beans I'm talking about here are dried before storage/sale, usually involving heat. I'm not sure what kind of drying process you used--- if the beans were not entirely dry before you put them away, then you might have a bigger problem than what we see here, and then I'm with John, you may have a problem.