We’ve roasted a test roast of the Java Semeru robusta, and hope to get a chance to run it through the espresso machine during a break in the festivities tomorrow. In fact we’ll probably schedule it early in the day before our tasted buds become swamped with the over indulgence that generally seems to accompany Christmas day in this house. If we can we will try and roast it even lighter than the current middle of the road starting point that we like to use when roasting a coffee that we have little previous experience of for the first time. The predominant taste in this coffee is a very pleasant taste of hazelnuts.