JavaHub Coffee
Learn about Java Hub coffee roasters
JavaHub are a speciality coffee brand based in Kent, UK.
Their concept is to take high quality, speciality coffee and bring this into the home and retail market.
With growing younger consumers and an ever-increasing number of people drinking coffee at home, JavaHub want to disrupt the common opinion of the coffee industry and welcome the idea that you don’t have to be a coffee connoisseur, barista or from the industry, to appreciate great quality coffee at home.
JavaHub was born out of the idea to evolve the traditional coffee industry into today’s coffee scene. Delivering freshly roasted coffee directly to your door much like the many independent coffee roasters but with a commercial twist.
The coffee that they showcase is roasted by one of the oldest coffee roasters in the UK, Herbery and Ward. With nearly a century of coffee knowledge, the roastery has been passed down through generations and currently is operated by the grandson of the founder.
The Coffee
The Barbosa coffee from JavaHub is a single-origin coffee from Brazil.
Brazil is the largest coffee producing country in the world and with that, they produce a wide variety of coffee alongside every processing method you can image.
Brazil has a rich history of coffee and has been the largest coffee producing country for over 150 years.
Coffee is far more than a caffeinated beverage here, it is deeply entwined in their culture and heritage, it has also historically played a huge role in international markets, during the great depression of the 1930’s Brazil was producing 80% of the world’s coffee and ended up burning 78 million bags of stockpiled coffee in an effort to invigorate coffee prices.
A reason why Brazil are so prolific in the industry other than the obvious humongous landmass is the industrialisation of the coffee picking. While in the majority of the coffee growing countries of the world, the coffee cherry is picked by hand, in Brazil the large farms operate huge machinery to pick the coffee.
The benefit of this is the massive quantities of coffee that can be harvested at once (the machines shake the cherries loose from the branches.
Typically, Brazilian coffee is found in espresso blends across the world. This is because of its low acidity, sweet nutty flavour and chocolatey notes as well as it’s fairly low price point. This is true for many Brazilian coffees, however, there is a small percentage of unique and interesting coffees that make it out of Brazil and due to the multitude of Brazilian coffee a small percentage is actually quite a lot.
The Review
Opening the coffee reminded me of working as a barista - the rich dark flavours that you get with coffee that has been roasted for espresso burst out of the bag.
The coffee starts off with the big flavours that were in the fragrance. Milk chocolate flavours that complement the buttery mouth feel transform into a dark chocolate aftertaste.
The coffee worked really well as an espresso, the rich flavours combine with the sweetness of the milk chocolate to form a delicious early morning pick me up.
Definitely worth trying in a more intense brew method such as a Moka Pot or as an espresso where the rich chocolatey flavours really express themselves.