Fresh-roasted coffee beans, delivered in Bengaluru.

Bengaluru is home for us and for the beans. The farms are a few hours west, in the hills, and our roaster is in a kitchen in this city. A bag ordered here has the shortest journey of any we send.

The city grew up on filter coffee, and we have not forgotten that. If you want the same beans ground fine for a steel filter, say so, and that is how they will arrive.

The weather here, and what it does to a bag of coffee

Bengaluru is 900 metres up, and the weather is gentle. Most of the year sits between 15 and 30 degrees. March to May are the warmest months, with afternoons at 33 or 34, and April brings thunderstorms in the evening. The monsoon from June to September is mostly drizzle, and there is a second wet stretch in October. December and January mornings are 14 to 16 degrees and dry, which is roasting weather as much as brewing weather.

This is the easiest city in India to keep coffee in. A sealed bag in a cupboard holds for a month or more. Even so, we roast after you order, and a Bengaluru bag reaches you two or three days out of the roaster, so freshness is something you get without managing it.

The city's water is the one thing to watch. Much of it comes from borewells and is hard, which flattens a light roast. If your building runs on borewell water, brew with filtered or bottled water and the difference is immediate. Cauvery water, in the older parts of town, is softer and fine as it is.

Where in Bengaluru the bags go

We roast in this city, so the bags go everywhere in it. Indiranagar, Koramangala, HSR Layout, and Whitefield order the most, and they own the most espresso machines. Jayanagar, Basavanagudi, and Malleshwaram order the dark roast ground fine for the steel filter, the way their households have always made coffee. Hebbal, Yelahanka, Sarjapur Road, Bellandur, and Electronic City are the same few days by courier.

If you are in Frazer Town, Cooke Town, or Sadashivanagar, the bag is usually at your door the day after it is roasted. Shipping is free across the city and across India.

Festivals, and the roast we would pour

Ugadi in March or April starts the year with bevu-bella, the bitter and the sweet together, and a medium roast made as a pour-over sits well after it. Karaga, on the full moon in the same weeks, is a night procession through the old city from the Dharmaraya Swamy temple, and for that night we would make a small, dark cup at midnight.

Ganesha Habba and Dasara are the busy weeks of the second half of the year, with visitors in the evening and the house full. The dark roast in a French press with milk, or the dark roast in a steel filter as decoction, is what we would serve. Deepavali is the same, with more sweets.

Kadalekai Parishe, the groundnut fair at the Bull Temple in November, is a walk through Basavanagudi with a paper cone of hot groundnuts. The coffee to come home to afterwards is a filter coffee from the dark roast. Christmas in the cantonment lanes is a pour-over of the light roast on a cool morning.

Which roast, when

These are the pairings we would make for a Bengaluru week. Tell us your brewer when you order and we will grind for it.

A grey monsoon morning

Medium roast, pour-over. This is what we drink.

A steel filter and a brass tumbler

Dark roast, ground fine, without chicory.

An espresso machine in an Indiranagar flat

Medium roast for straight shots, dark roast for milk drinks.

A cool December morning in the garden

Light roast, pour-over, with filtered water.

Dasara evenings with the house full

Dark roast, French press, with milk.

How the coffee reaches you

We buy green arabica from one small farm in the coffee hills of Karnataka, a few kilos at a time. We roast it at home on a small drum roaster, in batches of a few hundred grams. We roast your bag after you order it, so it leaves within days of the roast and not months.

You choose light, medium, or dark, or you tell us the notes you like and we roast toward them. You can have whole beans, or tell us your brewer and we will grind for it. A 250 g bag is ₹750 and a 500 g bag is ₹1,200, with free shipping in India.

Who you are buying from

We are a small roastery with one roaster in a home kitchen. There is no cafe and no warehouse. When you write to us about a grinder or a shot that came out sour, the person who roasted your bag writes back, and has made the same mistakes at the same counter.

Questions people ask