Java Blawan Estate East Java Java: Blawan Estate, East Java

I am a retired educator from Louisiana, and I swear I never intended to become a coffee snob. I only wanted to attain a small level of "Coffee Arrogance that my son, Tyler, enjoys!" Ha! Ha! As of now, all I want is a mastery in coffee roasting and brewing along with a secondary mastery in Mercantile Trading. At this point, I have specialized in the exchange of mutually acceptable currency {my money} for coffee beans (for me and my family's personal use and enjoyment). It all started innocently enough when I asked Tyler if he would like to sample some coffee from different regions/continents of the world and he said "sure" such benign beginnings! The only problem with that scenario was the coffee that was the very BEST is so freakin' expensive! This led me to research a less expensive alternative to getting the BEST COFFEE in our cup every morning! So, now I have a SR800 roaster combined with the Rossi roasting tube with the thermocouple to keep up with the temperature of the beans. Have probably roasted over 100lbs. of coffee this last year and given away 70% of it to friends and family. It has been a BLAST learning how to roast fresh coffee. Have ordered a lot of coffee from Coffee Bean Corral and they are great with fast shipping! Wife and I find that their cupping notes are pretty accurate. Anyway, we tried this Java Blawan Estate this morning and she commented that she could make this one "a daily drinker!" If she says that you know that the coffee is pretty good because she is a coffee SNOB! Ha! Ha! Apologize for such a long post it must be the old educator in me. ENJOY the JAVA! RVS

Ordered 10lbs, have roasted through 2lbs at this point. Roasting into Full City + second crack. The taste is incredibly consistent. Flavors are understandably muted due to the darker roast, but the response has been, "this is easily as good as what I would expect at a local specialty coffee shop." I'll take it. Roasting on a Behmor. Can't wait to continue testing blends, etc.

Uh oh surprise dinner party,people are coming over,you'll have to get out the West Bend 7488. Next you're gonna have to choose a coffee that everyone will love. This is that coffee.

I have an early version of the fresh roast roaster and Java has always been my favorite

One of my new favorites! Very smooth at a medium roast. Nutty with good flavor. On my rotation now. Never disappointed with Coffee Bean Corral. They always deliver the best.

This was a bit disappointing to me. Not a lot of character - Roasted to full city and Vienna. However, this is the first Java I've ever roasted, so another origin may prove differently. We do use it in one of our blends. It has a very mellow character, low acidity, and good basic coffee taste.

Roasted to nearly smoke alarm ( Vienna) in the Behmor 2000AB, and I got a cup much like you would get at one particular major coffee chain. I usually don’t roast dark, but for those who add cream and sugar, which my wife does, darker and “near burnt” roasts can give a better-tasting cup. So she gives this one 5 stars, and I recommend it as a Vienna- French roast!

I'm pretty new to roasting, and found this variety was one of the easiest to work with, yielding one of my most successful roasts to date. I tried two different roast levels, American roast (mid first crack), and a Vienna roast. I like a blend of medium roast with a little boost dark roast when I brew my coffee. This yielded a very rich and smooth cup, with good earthy notes, a hint of chocolate, and mild acidity. This was nearly a perfect cup of coffee. I want to try blending in a touch of some other beans for an extra whiff of complexity.