About this coffee
Ok, imagine it’s 1789. You’re a coffee enthusiast living in the Netherlands and you just ordered some coffee from India. You have never tried coffee from India before so you can’t wait to taste it. The first time I tasted Monsooned Malabar, I thought it tasted like eating old popcorn while smoking a wet cigar. I never gave Indian coffee a second chance. But maybe I was wrong (: Things have changed since then because now there are producers like Ashok Patre that focus on cup quality and experiment with new processing techniques. The farm is located in the Sahyadri mountain range at an altitude of 1800-2000 masl, in a lush rainforest full of flora, fauna, panthers and tigers. The coffee trees are shade grown and very well maintained. All of this makes for a coffee that is unlike the old Malabar.
