The January / February 2012 issue of Roast Magazine article features the emerging specialty coffee markets of China, the Middle East, Russia and India. Be sure to read Nishant Gurjer’s quotes on the current state of India’s booming specialty coffee development and gives his outlook for the future in: The New Frontier, Specialty Coffee’s Emergence in China, India, the Middle East and Russia
HOUSTON, TX (April 7, 2011) – Kaapi Royale Coffee will unveil samples of its first crop of coffee in conversion, named Nisarga, at the Specialty Coffee Association of America exposition later this month in Houston.
“Coffee in conversion” is an independently audited designation given to coffees that are grown using organic and/or biodynamic practices, but have not yet completed a prerequisite 3 year crop cycle necessary to be certified, labeled and sold as organic.
“Nisarga is the Sanskrit word for nature,” said Nishant Gurjer, Managing Partner of Kaapi Royale Coffee. “We take steps each season to make our Sethuraman Estate farm ever-increasingly environmentally friendly,” notes Gurjer. “Our coffee is all shade grown, uses 100% of our own worm-compost fertilizer and we recently deployed highly efficient new pulping equipment that will save thousands of gallons of processing water each year – a block of certified organic and biodynamic coffee is the natural next step.”
Nisarga coffee in conversion can be sampled at the Kaapi Royale Coffee booth #805 during exhibit floor hours April 28 – May 1 at SCAA’s Event held in Houston, Texas’ George R. Brown Convention Center.
ANAHEIM, CA – Kaapi Royale Coffee will serve samples of an espresso based on the rare Coffea liberica species during this week’s Specialty Coffee Association of America conference and exposition in Anaheim, California. The blend, called Anokhi Karma, combines coffee from the Liberica cultivar with others exported from India exclusively by Kaapi Royale Coffee.
“The purpose of this experiment was to produce something fun and different that will challenge conventional expectations of espresso flavour,” said Nishant Gurjer, General Partner of Kaapi Royale Coffee. “We believe that some will like the unusual flavour and other characteristics of Liberica and understand some will not, but hope that everyone who tastes it will be enriched by the experience.”
Anokhi Karma espresso will be served at the Kaapi Royale Coffee booth #2413 during exhibit floor hours Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the SCAA exposition. Availability is extremely limited for this rare coffee and will be served only while supplies last.
