Monsoons , Blue Bottle Coffee, New Orleans Iced Coffee:

Monsoons  sheepishly arrived in Delhi. Clouds gather on a whim and act like and eccentric rock-star, pouring some water once in a while. Humidity is unbearable. The only respite are cool climes like Nainital, where I had studied for few years or the next best option is a cold beverage like New Orleans Iced Coffee.

Blue Bottle Coffee is a specialty coffee company based in San Francisco , who roast coffee and run two cafes in the city. While reading about them  came across an article where they had shared how to prepare New Orleans Iced Coffee. It is easy and can be done at home. With the help below one can prepare a great cup of iced coffee and savor it the way I am doing it.

 

Ingredients:
250 gms of ground coffee. 

50 gms of powdered chicory .( Purely optional)
600 ml of water at normal temperature.
Preparation:
Pour water on the ground and mix it will with a spoon.
Let it brew at room temperature for 12 hrs.
After the brewing is done strain the brew into a container either with a filter paper or a fine metal strainer.
Coffee:
Now to prepare coffee pour 1/4th cup p brewed coffee, sugar syrup as per taste , fill it up with ice and add another 1/4th cup of milk. Mix it well and drink.

Shack Coffee Co.

What is Coffee?

Simple…Very Simple.

Coffee is nothing , but just a few cherries plucked, processed , dry and wet, dried, packaged, reopened, roasted and served . That’s it. Simple? Is it not?

However, this simple journey has been fascinating people for so long. Coffee is grown in various regions of the world, from South-Central Americas to Africa to Asia Pacific. The trail becomes even more interesting as the exceptional producers of coffee seldom consume the exceptional coffee grown in their countries. Therefore ,majority of the coffee grown in the coffee producing nations are exported as a cash crop, while coffee connoisseurs spread across the world go into the details and infuse life in the dead coffee beans.

Shack Coffee Co. is the result of over enthusiasm of one such coffee enthusiast, who has managed to find a partner for the idea, and make him believe that all we need in this world to give us joy will be duly granted by the roasted, burnt ,badgered, charred , dried, fermented and ground coffee beans. Amazingly few more people have started to believe this maxim of the coffee enthusiast. However, for the shack to be functional we need resources.

The journey, which some wise men say, is what maketh a man , and not the destination, for Shack is purported to be difficult and inundated with roadblocks. This electronic diary will keep itself abreast of each such happening in the life of the Shack. The prominent amongst the countless would be the coffee beans.

Yes, Shack is based in India, which does not grow coffee to cater to the specialty coffee . Till very recently coffee grown in India was to cater to the bulk market. However there have been exceptions . Adding to it Indian consumers have been used to instant coffee sold by global giant Nestle and the local giant Tata coffee(it owns thirty thousand acres of coffee plantations). Other than instant coffee we have locally bred coffee chains, which have defined coffee very differently. However there are warriors , who are fighting it out alone. Future posts will cover all the aspects and much more.

Happy Birthday Shack.