ARABICA/ROBUSTA UPDATE: The roast has settled considerably. It is now one post-roast and roughness has dissipated. VERY nice drinking...glad that I persevered!

The first roast with the blended Monsooned Malabar beans (1100gm Arabica to 100gm Robusta) made very good shots. My usual MM Arabica makes shots that are better than 'very good'....MMMn. I didn't notice any more crema than with just MM Arabica. I probably would need to sample a straight MM shot next to a blended one to be able to report any differences. My next MM roast upped the amount of Robusta beans (Arabica 1000gm to 200 gm Robusta). I am sampling now and have noticed no extra crema but a 'roughness' that lingers for hours. I will keep drinking coffees from this roast but initial results tell me that I am not achieving anything positive from the Robusta Monsooned Malabar....time will tell if I change my mind. At this stage, my next roast will be 100% Arabica MM!

Hi Rai, Many thanks for your reply. I am quite familiar with Arabica Monsooned Malabar beans. The wild card (for me) is the Robusta! My roaster does batches of 1.2kg. For the first batch, I might err a bit on the light side with the Robusta and use 100gm of them with 1.1kg of the Arabica. I can always build up in future roasts. It is great to have this website operational. Congratulations in getting it happening! I am wishing you every success with it and with ICT. I am happy to have found a new location for sourcing green beans.

Hi! I am expecting some Monsooned Malabar (Arabica) and some Monsooned Malabar (Robusta) beans within the next few days. I have never roasted Robusta beans before. I would like to blend both species (5A:1R) and am wondering how they would go roasted together...rather than blending them from two separate roasts. Has anyone had experience of this? This ratio (5:1) is a trial. Does anyone have a ratio that they have tried that would be more successful with these beans?