I bought 125 g, packets of each. They have a similar fruity
fragrance, the Malawi with a more mellow odor of apricot, the Java
with a sharper odor of orange. The year old Assam that I'm finishing
up smells more like- how do I put this? tea. Toci

On Sep 20, 7:19 am, toci yahoo.com> wrote:

Side-by-side brewing- the Malawi wet leaf takes on more of a
grapefruit odor; the Java stays milder. This transfers over to the
brewed teas. The Malawi, brewed three minutes, is darker than the
Java, brewed four minutes. The Malawi tastes perhaps like the husks
of black walnuts. I don't taste the flowery taste that I did two
years ago when I first tried Java tea, not do I taste any trace of
lava. But perhaps tasting alongside the Malawi drowns them out.
Toci