On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
> Bombay is about the only place I see it sold / drunk (never been to > mysore..) > > My usual drink in Madras is Leo Top Blend (quite good, nice even roast with > a > chocolatey aftertaste) - but the mysore concerns stuff beats it hands down. > Lovely dark roast too, and pure coffee. None of that chicory rubbish at > all. > > Anywhere I can get the stuff in madras? A quick tour of shops in adyar > turns up > zilch. Google is uncommunicative on this subject. So let's see if silklist > does > better :) > > srs Where did you get this Mysore Concerns coffee, SRS? Did you get the powder or drink the coffee? If this was in Blr, let us...or at least me...know. There is a perception amongst Tamilians (well, TamBrams) that "pure" coffee means only Peaberry, no Arabica or (as it is known in Coffee Board circles,"Plantation A " and "Plantation B"....or Robusta....I once had a long conversation with Sunalini Menon, who used to be a coffee-taster for the Coffee Board, and she said that in actuality, in blind tests, most south Indians preferred a mix of Peaberry, Robusta, and Arabica..with at least a 10% blend of chicory! She said that contrary, also, to the perception that chicory is Not A Good Thing, adding 10% chicory to the blend did improve the strength of the decoction,and boosted the flavour of the coffee without taking away from the taste. So how did this predeliction for "Peaberry" (or is it "P-berry"?) coffee come to be? A friend of mine also got enough Kopi Luwak seeds from his plantation-owning pal, to have his mother roast and grind them, and serve them to his friends, and he said the taste was smooth and excellent....but whether it was worth the kind of expense it would normally involve, is another matter! Cheers, Deepa.
