A cup of coffee is perfect for a rainy season. Enjoying a hot coffee in a calm place watching the beauty of nature in monsoon is a memorable moment in life. You can visit top hotels in Kochi during monsoon to experience this moment.

Monsoon is also a special season for coffee lovers as one of the most celebrated speciality coffees of India, Monsooned Malabar coffee or Monsoon Malabar coffee is processed in the season of monsoon.

Monsooned Malabar coffee is famous among the coffee lovers due to its geographical processing indications (GI) as the beans are dried in the coastal areas from June to September i.e from the beginning of monsoon season in India. Monsoon Malabar coffee making is a lengthy process including plucking of selectively picked arabica and robusta cherry coffee beans, processing it in monsoon winds, sorting the coffee beans etc.

Story of Monsoon Malabar Coffee

The story behind the Monsoon Malabar coffee is an interesting one. It is said that while transporting the coffee beans from India to Europe the ship got delayed and the coffee beans acquired some special characteristics like size of the beans has doubled, the colour changed and also less acidity in the flavour which Europeans liked very much. These special characteristics were acquired due to coffee beans’ exposure to monsoon rains and winds in the journey.

Processing of Monsoon Malabar Coffee

The journey of Monsoon Malabar coffee starts from the hands of coffee farmers, the coffee farmers pluck the grown cherries and the beans are sun-dried. These sun-dried coffee beans then sorted and graded accordingly. On the onset of monsoon, the coffee beans are exposed to monsoon rain and winds of Malabar coast for three to four months which results in the coffee beans to double its size and bring a pleasant earthy flavour. Also, the coffee beans lose the original acidic flavour in it to cause a PH level near to neutral. Thus resulting in a pale yellow colour for the coffee beans. The Monsoon Malabar coffee has a thick body with a spicy, nutty taste. This flavour makes Monsoon Malabar coffee the most celebrated speciality coffee in the world.