Too Much Coffee

As a treat for Christmas, I finally got round to roasting my Hasbean Jamaican Blue Mountain sample.
I was quite nervous about roasting it and messing it up, but I started nice and slow with a low heat initially. The roast was about 14 minutes and I let it run a little after 1st crack, but before 2nd got near, I reckon around City or medium, I read 430F on the temp probe.

We drank some in the caffetiere on Christmas day, it was only rested 2 days, as I had been ill, and only felt well enough to roast on the Thursday.
Boy is this stuff smooth! I was surprised how strong the body was given the lightish roast and JBM's reputation as a lightish flavour. I tried some more after about 5 days rest and the flavour had got better, quite a nutty flavour, a little floral, a little spice, and a hint of almost pineyness. There were no very distinct varietal characteristics like some coffees, but it has a lovely balanced flavour, very nice!

i got to do some cupping with this stuff too last week and had pretty much the same experience.
good discription of the taste i know your right but could never think of it myself.
just one little thing not quit right, the greens seemed to be a bit oneven normally i would not notice but the reputation of the bean had me expecting perfection.
great coffee allthough i don't think ill stock it

As a person who had only ever had cappuccinos with a tsp of sugar every time, I decided that my first espresso ever would be the JMB - Wallenford Estate. I had it at Joey's place. My totally uninitiated taste buds could only make my tongue waggle out the words "Wow! I've never tasted anything like this". I was so surprised that I could even finish my cup! When Joey asked what I tasted, blah blah blah, all I could say was floral and velvety on the tongue. Beyond floral, I couldn't come up with anything else... And now that you mention pineyness, I think I could add that too. It's hard to identify the tastes/aromas until someone points it out, and then "bing" the light is on!!!

BTW, we don't have a drip machine, and I'll pick up a cafetiere next time I'm out shopping, would making my drinks as an Americano help to enhance other flavours in the cup or would it just be a muted espresso (which sounds logical)?

Thanks for the continued education
M

This is sounding really good guys - I just took delivery of a bag of green JBM so I'm looking forward to my first roast. I've also got a Jamaican work colleague who is flying out there tomorrow, and who promised to bring me "some coffee". Quite what he'll bring is an unknown but I know he'll get it directly from a local grower.

tisri... for the sake of your friend, whatever it is, I hope it's green

Green perhaps, coffee definitely Last time he brought me some back it was a pale brown colour as if it had been dried rather than roasted. The beans were very light in both colour and weight. I tried to roast them in the roaster I had at the time, and it ruined them (the rebadged Imex that ruined just about everything I tried to roast in it).

So I'm looking forward to seeing what comes back, and what the Hottop can do with it.

tisri wrote:ast time he brought me some back it was a pale brown colour as if it had been dried rather than roasted. The beans were very light in both colour and weight.

That sounds like Old Java.

Anyone know a supplier of JBM green???

Tonka,

You can buy it from hasbean: www.hasbean.co.uk
or
Ongebrand: www.ongebrand.nl

They both supply in Europe and both priced at approximately EURO 73 per kilogram.

Don't know where you living, but probably the shipping cost will make the difference in combination with the quantities ordered.

Hope this will help.

Best regards,

Steven

Thanks Steve