Tag: Indian Coffee

India launched their specialty coffee as  “Monsoiated”  in the international market as early as 1972, even before the specialty coffee movement gathered momentum around the world. The story of Monsoiated coffee begins in the mid-1800s, more than a century before the word “specialty” was even coined for coffee. Around 1850, a shipment of coffee beans left the coast of Malabar, India to reach Scandinavian coffee buyers. In those days, the shipping time by sea was very long. During a more than six-month voyage across the ocean around the …