Old Brown Java

Name: Old Brown Java
Brand: MacBeans
Availability: InStock

🍫Bitter Chocolate · 🌿Earthy · 🚬Tobacco · 🍯Syrup &🫚Sutble Spice · Tobacco subtle spice

Chocolate Earthy Caramel and sweet Spice

£32.00/kg

33% below similar

£8.00 for 250 g, though their 5 kg bag works out at £24.00/kg · about £0.58 for an 18 g espresso dose

Compared with 24 coffees from 19 roasters in washed from Indonesia (standard bag, 200–350 g)

Price observed 4 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

Delivery cost not stated by the roaster

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Bag	Price	Per kilo
250 g	£8.00	£32.00/kg
500 g	£16.00	£32.00/kg

How it sits among coffee from Indonesia

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Indonesia: 142 of 189 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

MacBeans describe this coffee as caramel and sweet, chocolate, spice, earthy. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Indonesia; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Indonesia, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Indonesia coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Indonesia

Region

Java

Process

washed

Not stated

farm or estate, producer, variety, altitude, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

Where each fact came from

Flavour families

…👅Tasting Notes: 🍫Bitter Chocolate, 🌿Earthy, 🚬Tobacco, 🍯Syrup &🫚Sutble Spice 🗺️Origin: Java, Indonesia 📈Process: Washed 🌋Altitude: 1200m ☕Best Served: Black or with a splash milk Description: Old Brown Java is a distinctive and characterful coffee from Indonesia, known for its smooth, earthy profile and syrupy body. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

…🗺️Origin: Java, Indonesia 📈Process: Washed 🌋Altitude: 1200m ☕Best Served: Black or with a splash milk Description: Old Brown Java is a distinctive and characterful coffee from Indonesia, known for its smooth, earthy profile and syrupy body. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Region

Processing

…📈Process: Washed 🌋Altitude: 1200m ☕Best Served: Black or with a splash milk Description: Old Brown Java is a distinctive and characterful coffee from Indonesia, known for its smooth, earthy profile and syrupy body. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roast level

…🔥Roast: Medium 💪Strength: 3/5 👅Tasting Notes: 🍫Bitter Chocolate, 🌿Earthy, 🚬Tobacco, 🍯Syrup &🫚Sutble Spice 🗺️Origin: Java, Indonesia 📈Process: Washed 🌋Altitude: 1200m ☕Best Served: Black or with a splash milk Description: Old Brown Java is a distinctive and characterful coffee from Indonesia, known for its smooth, earthy profile and syrupy body. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.