Chaithanyaa Coffees - Bangalore

Been quite some time since I update the blog ... have been travelling a bit ... well my agenda for this quarter of the year was to standardise important ingredients on my menu .Not that it wasn't standardised ,but wanted to have one supplier , a uniform rate ,uniform quality and specifications etc .... ingredients like coffee , chocolate , cheese etc .... So i set out with the team in search of the first ..i.e COFFEE....

I had met Suresh Babu ...proprietor of Chaitanyaa Coffee - Bangalore at a trade exhibition in Mumbai a couple of months back ....This company was officially promoting coffees grown in India . After meeting up with him and he explaining to me about the coffees grown in India . i realised we were sitting on a gold mine ...Never did I ever think that we produced so much of coffee. I did know that we in India produced a lotta coffee but didn't know the quantum we exported .

o Sudhir (Talent sourcing Mngr -Mocha) , Clyde ( Asst. Training Mngr-mocha) & ,myself set out in search of setting one of our basic products right...Our ESPRESSO BLEND ... and some speciality coffees like the Monsoon Malabar ,Indian Pea Berry and some speciality coffees from India grown from the Coorg , Chickmanglur ,Waynad etc regions of India

Sudhir & Clye @ Chaithanyaa Coffee

After landing into Bangalore early in the morning we knew we were gonna have an over load of Caffeine .... but we were kind kicked about it ....

At the shop Suresh Babu had made a dessert for us named .."EAT COFFEE"..... It was kinda a coffee extract set like a jelly and slightly translucent .An okish product for my palette and not some thing I would die for ....

Suresh Babu has been Trading coffee since the last 40 + years ... The business had been set up by his dad and he has been taking care it since the last decade .He has an understanding with the Coffee Board Of India to promote coffees grown in India under the new scheme of the Coffee Board .... Coffees of India.http://www.indiacoffee.org/indiacoffee.php?page=CoffeeRegionsIndia

Mr. Babu is quite a traveller ... and his love for coffee has taken him to quite a few coffee growing regions across the globe. Whislt travelling he brings along a lot of coffee . This time around he had kept aside single origin beans from Guatemala , Peru, Brazil and some decaffeinated coffee for us . He has a small batch drum roaster in which he roasts smaller quantities of coffee .

Single origin Beans

The coffee Business in India though big is a small community .What I liked was the business practice they followed . If supplier had a problem the rest would come to help ..but most importantly they would never eat or poach into the others business.
Since our quantities were large , Mr.Suresh Babu decided to take help from his friend /competitor Mr. Surya Prakash who runs the 2nd generation Coorg Coffee Supplies Pvt Ltd in Bangalore . Mr Surya Prakash was a walking dictionary of coffee. He is the chairperson of the tasting panel of the Coffee Board Of India and his Knowledge about coffee was amazing . we were glad that we had him help us develop a blend , a particular roast for our Espresso Blend .