News articles tagged with 'India'
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Gems of Araku
I’ve just come back from two weeks of intensive coffee travel in South India and now I’m finding myself completely re-thinking everything I thought I knew about Indian coffee. My trip had a twofold purpose. The first week was dedicated to the Gems of Araku cupping competition, where we focused on a non-traditional, but emerging coffee growing region in South India. Week two…
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New Era for Indian Coffees
Five years ago, I ummed and ahhed over Monsoon or Tiger Mountain branded coffees. They were savoury, dusty, baggy and cigar-like — and I wasn’t quite sure whether I liked them or not. All I knew was that they blended poorly, had a very bubbly crema and required a very different grind setting to most of the other coffees I was using. Fast track forward five years and I’m no longer a fan of these coffees. Sounds harsh, but those coffees were just that: harsh! Now that the global quality standard has rapidly increased, the old-style Indian coffees just don’t stand a chance against the super sweet and refined coffees of today. That’s pretty much all I knew about Indian coffees, until my recent visit to India, that is.
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Roaster Goes to India
We were pretty much up and running right from the start on our trip to India. Early on the first morning we met Mr. Appadurai, the owner of Sangameshwar Coffee Estates. We currently buy coffee from one of these estates, the Attikan Estate, meaning ‘fig jungle’ estate as it’s surrounded by dense jungle and, of course, fig trees. Mr. Appadurai inherited the company from his grandfather who had bought the farm from A.C. Morris in 1960.
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