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French Press

French press Craft Coffee beans (see below for amount) Water (see below for amount) Stirring utensil Kettle (gooseneck preferred) Timer Mug Burr grinder (recommended) Scale (recommended) BEFORE YOU BREW Make sure your French press has been thoroughly cleaned since you last used it. Any old grounds stuck in the mesh filter will ruin your coffee with bitter flavors. For best results, we strongly recommend starting with whole bean coffee and grinding with a burr grinder immediately before brewing. If you grind your coffee too soon, it will quickly lose many of the compounds that give it such delightful aromas and flavors. While it may seem complicated, we think using a scale actually makes brewing easier by taking any guesswork out...

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Hickory Dickory Chicory

The most official #chicory survey ever undertaken in the history of this page. It will take 30 seconds to 1 minute to complete but the data, oh the sweet data will be valuable for ages. Please click below RIGHT NOW and do it. COME ON! Share it too. We'll share the results next week. #compelling #goodmorning #mondaymotivation #lifeisgood #IndiaDrinksCoffee #survey #India #mustread #lol #datascientists #marketresearch   https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M93WSSJ

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Brew Project at Times LitFest

It's lit! Legit! Legitimately lit! We went to the literature festival and in addition to the itch for aliteration we had the pleasure of serving up the new Watapi, Kaldeva and espresso brews to authors, readers and Bandra folk alike. We also poured our heart and passion over at The Vintage Garden, serving up traditional hot filter kaapis and pourover coffee. Well you missed out on the events, but you are in for a treat with the new Watapi.  Hot Mocha RecipeHot mochas were flying off the shelves. We literally had to call in the wizarding crews and handle them like pixies. So we thought a good treat for the wintry days ahead would be a delicious hot mocha recipe that gives you...

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Contest time, folks!

Contest time, folks! But, wait! There's a catch. This contest is exclusively for you, our customers. You've been loyal, grown with us and shared the joy of single origin coffee with us along the way. Now, it's our turn to pay you back. So, play to #win! And be sure to introduce your friends to the joy that is  coffee.  Check out the rules below and play to win your favorite  coffee.    Guidelines  Contest   Follow us Share our page /Tag us Specify which is your favorite coffee from the entire Indian bean range Describe in 140 characters or less  why it’s your favorite Winner gets a 100g  bag of their favorite coffee Please leave your comments below this blog post.

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