India Monsooned Malabar

India Monsooned from the rainy Malabar region is a coffee with delicate, mineral spice notes and a medium body. Its mild flavor and low acidity are thanks to “monsooning.”

In the past, when green coffee was still transported by sailing ships, the voyage from India to Europe took several months and crossed a wide range of climate zones. During the journey, the green coffee beans partially fermented as they were exposed to changes in heat and cold, as well as moisture and dryness. They took on a yellowish color and developed a very distinctive flavor. Coffee drinkers grew accustomed to this flavor over time, and when modern steamships made shipping times increasingly shorter, natural monsooning no longer occurred and the flavor changed.