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There are several reasons why Indian coffee is popular with coffee lovers, but the most important is a process used on coffee beans, often referred to as the "monsooning" process.

Monsoon coffee (rainy season Malaba) is a unique coffee from southern India using a typical air-drying process, specially stored in an open warehouse and exposed to the monsoon to increase viscosity and reduce acidity.

But when it comes to wind-stained coffee, it's a new flavor created inadvertently. In the 17th and 18th centuries, India shipped coffee beans to Europe by sailboat, which took six months. The raw beans were placed on the bottom of the barn and absorbed the moisture and salty taste of the sea. The raw beans arrived in Europe and had deteriorated. The color changed from dark green to the yellowish brown of rice. The acidity of the coffee almost disappeared, but it unexpectedly developed a strong nutty and cereal flavor. It tasted full, with a bit of black rice tea flavor. The original coffee shipped to Europe took more than half of the time to become "transformed" and lost its original flavor, so exporters thought of the salty and wet environment blown by the Indian ocean along the coast of Malaba in southwestern India every year from late May to September. After several experiments, it was made similar to the old golden coffee without acid, so it was named "monsoon coffee", commonly known as wind-stained coffee. For hundreds of years, it has been widely used by European coffee manufacturers to prepare mixed coffee beans, which can increase the consistency and tea feel.

Indian monsoon coffee beans are stored in special warehouses until the monsoon arrives, and the ventilation structure is designed to allow moist monsoons to circulate between the beans, causing them to expand and show a mellow but strong mildew smell. The monsoon process is labor-intensive: coffee is spread out in special ventilated warehouses and raked or turned by hand to allow coffee beans to absorb moisture in the moist wind. The whole process takes 12 to 16 months, in which the coffee beans expand to twice their original volume and have a dull golden yellow. Then the coffee beans that are not fully inflated are picked out with extra processing, and the rest of the coffee is to be exported.

The aroma of this dried coffee is not very strong, but with the addition of water, a combination of strongly roasted nuts (dry-roasted peanuts), caramel and tobacco come to the nostrils.

Indian coffee bean brand recommendation

The Indian coffee beans baked in Qianjie Coffee-Wind-stained Malaba Coffee are fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, a pack of half a pound 227 grams, the price is only about 80 yuan. According to the calculation of 15 grams of powder per cup of hand-brewed coffee, 15 cups of coffee can be made in a bag, and each cup of coffee costs only about 5 yuan, which is very cost-effective for coffee shops to sell dozens of yuan a cup.

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