Fresh-roasted coffee beans, delivered in Gurgaon.

Gurgaon mornings begin before the light does. The cab is booked, the tower on Golf Course Road is already lit, and the first coffee is usually a machine in a lobby. We would like to send you a better one.

The bag we ship to Gurgaon is roasted after your order arrives, so it reaches you a few days out of the roaster, and it opens with the smell still in it.

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

Gurgaon has the hardest weather of any city we send coffee to. April to June run at 40 to 45 degrees, with the loo blowing dust in off the Aravalli edge. July, August, and September bring the monsoon and the only humid weeks of the year. October and November bring the smog, and December and January mornings are 5 to 8 degrees with fog on the expressway. Humidity stays low for most of the year, which helps a bag keep. Heat ages the beans faster.

Keep the bag out of the sun and away from the kitchen window; a cupboard in an air-conditioned room is ideal. Do not refrigerate it. The dry air means whole beans keep their aroma for a month in a sealed bag, so we would buy a 250 g bag in June and a 500 g bag in December.

Water matters more here than anywhere else we ship to. Much of Gurgaon runs on borewell or tanker water, which is hard, and hard water makes coffee taste flat. Brew with filtered or bottled water. The medium roast is the most forgiving if your water is uncertain; the light roast is worth it once the water is good.

Where in Gurgaon the bags go

The Gurgaon bags go to Golf Course Road and Golf Course Extension Road, to the DLF phases, Sushant Lok, and Nirvana Country, and to the towers along Sohna Road and in Sectors 56 and 57. People who work in Cyber City and Udyog Vihar mostly brew at home before the commute, and they order the medium roast ground for a moka pot.

Palam Vihar, South City, and MG Road are on the same courier run. New Gurgaon along the Dwarka Expressway and out towards Manesar takes a day more. Shipping is free across the city and across India.

Festivals, and the roast we would pour

Diwali is the big week. The towers light up, the parties run late, and the house fills with boxes of sweets and dry fruit. A coffee for those evenings has to be quick and strong: the dark roast in a moka pot, poured small, or the dark roast in a French press with milk for a table of guests.

Holi in March is a morning of colour and an afternoon of sleep, and the coffee that comes after is a French press of the medium roast for whoever surfaces first. Lohri in January is a bonfire in the society park on a cold night, and a thermos of the medium roast made strong goes with it. Karva Chauth and the Ramlila nights before Dussehra are the same late, cold evenings.

Christmas and New Year at Cyber Hub are the loudest nights of the year here. For the morning after, we would make the light roast as a pour-over with filtered water, at the window, with the fog still on the road.

Which roast, when

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

A six a.m. cab in January fog

Medium roast, moka pot. Four minutes, and it forgives a rough grind.

A 44-degree afternoon in June

Medium roast as a cold brew, twelve hours in the fridge, over ice.

Calls with the US after nine at night

Dark roast, a single small moka pot.

Diwali week with the house full

Dark roast, French press, with warm milk, a litre at a time.

A Sunday morning with good water

Light roast, pour-over, and the citrus in the bean shows.

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