India Monsooned Malabar AA Karnataka India: Monsooned Malabar AA, Karnataka

This is a coffee that can be hard to source and thanks to CBC we can get it. It is a staple for several of my own blends that I've created across my 18yrs of home-roasting. This coffee is also excellent as a single origin brew and is so unique in its flavor. Someone once commented that you'll either think it is "elixir of the gods" or "something all together different". I'm in the "elixir of the gods" category about this coffee. It can compliment a blend in ways that just make you happy to be a home-roaster. Highly recommend and thank-you CBC in sourcing it for us.

Monsooned Malabar has been one of my favorite coffees for years. Coffee Bean Corral has great prices, and the beans are among the best. I roast it both light and a full city. It does have a taste that some might call funky. It is the only coffee that my adult daughter drinks with no milk/cream. Very low acidity/bitterness compared to all other coffees.

This is a very smooth coffee. It's a flowery smooth flavor and lacks bitterness. I call this my afternoon coffee. For morning coffee I want a deep rich bitter coffee to wake me up. This is a milder coffee flavor, sweet and soft on the pallet.

Absolutely amazing I loved the smooth roast profile and the end flavor profile was amazing. 10-10 would recommend for a daily drinker

As the great Russ Denz used to say "if there is no Monsooned Malabar in your espresso, there certainly should be". MM works well as espresso with some Ethipians I have and with a Peruvian as well. Smooth and funky, but nice balance. Bare;u into 2nd crack works for me.

My first roast with this bean, held up at city. Very smooth with a hint of chocolate at the end. Going to send it deeper next time. One of my favorites so far along with the Sulawesi Toraja. -WD

Nice coffee. Crisp. When you first open the bag and smell it, it smells unlike any other green bean i've smelled. You can definitely smell the monsoon/water. I;d say it was a slightly musty scent. I was intrigued instantly. The roast was also different. The beans seems to take longer to begin roasting. I was afraid i'd over roast or over roast. In the end I roasted to a nice medium dark brown this first time. (Good thing I have 5 pounds of it). Its clean and crisp. Not heavy at all and VERY nutty. Definite chocolate in there too. Next time I'll try a full city roast and see how it differs. I highly recommend thsi bean. Maddie

Monsooned Malabar has been my favorite coffee for 2-3 years now. I buy it in 20lbs bags every 6 months or so. I roast it to where the 1st crack quiets down, so on the light side. It is best to let it rest for a few days after roasting. I do espresso with a manual press, and it comes out thick and foamy. Great taste, aftertaste, and smell. I get no acid reflux from it, as I get with other beans. Fast delivery and consistent quality from CBC. Thank you!

I got away from this bean several years ago, using it for pour-over and espresso. Now that my tastes have changed I am coming back to it as a base bean for cold-brew coffee. 6 oz of coffee into a 2 quart mason jar and then almost fill with filtered water. I roast it just into second crack and it delivers a strong backed coffee which stands up to the oat milk and half n half I put in my afternoon cold brew beverage. I also roast this bean for my neighbors who put milk in their coffee in the morning. Coffee Bean Corral is a great company to buy these beans from since they are close and a shipment gets here the next day, if I order in the morning.

I have no expertise in roasting coffee. However I enjoy doing so with my hand held Hive roaster and a small camp stove burner. The monsooned beans have a nice yellow tone in the bag before roasting. I roast them just slightly into second crack in very small batches. The flavor is a very interesting cup of coffee that I would encourage any coffee drinker to try. It is smooth and delightful. My family likes it and I will buy and enjoy more in the future. Coffee Bean Coral service and shipping is always spot on!

I had really high hopes for this one. I tried it with 4 different roast profiles from light to med/light to the point of getting oil out of it and I've tried to blend them and over and over I get the same thing, WOOD. The initial tongue hit is a good coffee flavor but the aftertaste is 110% like sucking on a coffee soaked tooth pick. Just a flat out wood flavor. I got the 1/2lb sampler so it won't hurt so much when I throw it away. Sorry guys, this is a miss for me.

I feel like this is one of those love it or hate it coffees. I absolutely love it in an espresso blend! Not so much as a single origin though… a bit too earthy for me, but definitely worth a try! Something about it adds just the right touch to an espresso. Maybe a bit of a sweetness or a fullness that just makes espresso “pop”. About 30% Malabar, 60% Brazil, 10% or less of robusta. And Bingo!

I wrote a review in March 2022 about this being my (and my family's) favorite coffee. I just received another 50 lbs. that I ordered from Coffee Bean Corral. Their packaging, shipping times, shipping costs, and responsiveness are all top-rate. Definitely have become my go-to place for green coffee beans.

Good and special Arabic coffee and black coffee

I roasted 15 - 30 seconds after 1st crack was over and it made for a fairly smooth and mild cup that could have been blended with any other bean without overpowering it. I enjoyed it, as did the friends I shared it with. Not a stand-out, unique taste… but one worth having in the rotation and likely a good addition to blends.

Roasted it to a nice middle City+, making sure to keep the temperature nice and low for the browning phase. The result is an earthy experience that feels wholly separate from something like a Sumatran. The best I can describe it is "petrichor". This coffee tastes like rain on stone smells. Interestingly, it got a little sweeter after sitting for a week, and gained the subtle undertone of burnt Carmel. I don't think it would necessarily be a flavor everyone would appreciate, but I absolutely love it.

I roasted just up to 2nd crack such that after 7 days there were just a few specks of oil that surfaced on some of the beans. That's typically my favorite roast for the espresso that I brew. As per description and some reviews, the espresso had a tea-like spicy taste. There's all kinds of teas and tea tastes, but I'd say maybe something akin to a Ceylon black tea like in Earl Grey or English Breakfast Tea. I didn't hate it, but I would not buy again. I prefer a more traditional Italian style espresso - a little bitter, not too bright but smooth and more of a rich chocolaty mouth feel.

From the description on the website for this coffee, I was expecting something fabulous. My husband and I didn’t think that it was that great. It tasted like coffee we bought at the grocery store

I love these Indian Monsooned Malabar AA beans. Beans cam quickly and in great condition. Thanks Coffee Bean Corral! I roasted the beans to city+. Smooth flavor with a hint of chocolate, spicy earth tones.

It’s ok

This is my second order of this amazing coffee. Ordered 5 pounds the first time and just ordered 20 pounds. Will order again.

I have tried several methods, but cannot get an even roast on this coffee. The brewed cup may be like tea, as described. I don't like it.

Very unique coffee. My rating may change, I am still playing around with the roast...

This is the coffee I make for company and guests - it never fails to impress. And if you're a lover of the India / Asia-Pacific beans, this one might be a good way to add some variety to your rotation while maintaining some of the similar flavors. I enjoy this roasted as much 30 seconds into 2nd crack, any darker is a bit too bitter for my taste. Favorite brew method is a Chemex for this one.

I've been using this Indian Monsooned Malabar AA for several years. The quality is always high, and consistent. This is always a welcome addition to my roasting blends for both drip and espresso. Coffee Bean Corral is always a great place for your unroasted beans. You can't beat their quality and prices.

Roasted at full city. The aroma was very strong, flavor is great with a slight hint of chocolate. At first when the beans were heating up they really stink but the end result is very favorable.

One man's stink, as it turns out, can be another man's perfume - if you doubt that, just ask the first male skunk you meet. I digress...that "wet burlap"-type of odor / aroma occurs with most coffees as they begin to roast and lose their silverskin (chaff), although usually to a lesser degree than with monsooned coffees. It, too, passes with time, but now you know when to turn your nose away...or closer, as your own preferrence dictates.
Russ

Surprise to see that this bean has large bean size and roast up quite evenly. I roast it in a sift over gas stove to barely finished first crack. Rested the bean for the few days before drinking. Rich and strong body with earthly mouthfeel. Very unique bean and great to have a chance to try it out!

Top notch coffee, always great quality beans. Ships quickly. Only note is I buy 50lbs at a time. I selected the Poly bag for the first time (which is one big bag) vs. the burlap in which there are 4 separate bags. I think the 50 lb bag is too big for shipping. It was punctured by the shipper (not Coffee Bean Corrals fault) and the top came open. No beans lost, they were contained in the box, I weighed it to check, but I will go back to the burlap for next time