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    Post #1 - April 3rd, 2010, 9:20 am
    Post #1 - April 3rd, 2010, 9:20 am Post #1 - April 3rd, 2010, 9:20 am
    While visiting a friend in England, I came to like coffee beans she buys from an English tea/coffee store Whittard. The name of the bean was monsoon malabar. I googled to see where I can get it in States. Wikipedia says it's a kind of style of preparing green coffee beans in India whereby they expose it to wet winds of monsoon season for a couple of months so that the beans swell up and lose acidity and become more sweetened and chocolaty.
    There are some sites that sell it my mailorder. Does anyone know if I can buy it locally? thanks,
  • Post #2 - April 3rd, 2010, 12:19 pm
    Post #2 - April 3rd, 2010, 12:19 pm Post #2 - April 3rd, 2010, 12:19 pm
    You can get it at Star Lounge on Chicago.

    It's my favorite.

    Toby
    WRECHED EXCESS IS BARELY ENOUGH

    HEAT
  • Post #3 - April 3rd, 2010, 1:58 pm
    Post #3 - April 3rd, 2010, 1:58 pm Post #3 - April 3rd, 2010, 1:58 pm
    It's the style of coffee I grew up drinking in India - made with a fair amount of milk.* I saw monsoon malabar at Nicholas Coffee when I moved to Pgh a few years ago and tried it and it was just as I remembered it. I smelled the jute gunny sacks (in a good way) as I drank it.
    If you can't get it in Chicago, Nicholas Coffee in Pittsburgh has it.

    *
    In S. India where more coffee is consumed, it is typically made as a strong 'decoction' (in an Italian style espresso maker, or simply through a filter (in some cases with long steeping). This strong decoction is then mixed with hot milk, frothed (by pouring from one glass at some height to another).

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