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Specialty coffee roasters · New Delhi
Coffee, roasted the day you order it.
No warehouse. No aged stock. Two roasters, small batches, a date on every bag.
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01 — Why
India grows extraordinary coffee.
Almost all of it leaves.
We keep the best of it here.
Chikmagalur · Coorg · Koraput · Yercaud
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1 / 5 · The green
Estates & origins →
It starts as a seed.
Bought by the sack from estates we visit, and kept unroasted. Green coffee holds for months. Roasted coffee does not.
Estates & origins →
2 / 5 · The roast
Our story →
Two kilos at a time.
Small batches, read by colour and by ear. Nothing here is roasted to a forecast.
Our story →
3 / 5 · The drop
Read our vision →
Cooled before it can carry on.
Out of the drum fast and stirred until the heat is gone. Anything slower and the bean keeps roasting itself.
Read our vision →
4 / 5 · The bag
Shop the coffee →
Filled after you order.
We hold green, never roasted. Your order starts the roast, not the other way round.
Shop the coffee →
5 / 5 · The cup
Brew guides →
Where it gets judged.
Every batch is brewed against the last one before it is allowed to leave the room.
Brew guides →
02 — How
Source
Direct
The same estates, season after season. Chikmagalur, Coorg, Koraput, Yercaud.
Roast
Small
Two kilos at a time, on a Silon ZR7 and a Solar 2kg. Nothing is roasted to a forecast.
Log
Recorded
Charge, turning point, first crack, development time. Every batch, tasted against the last.
Ship
Fresh
Out of the roastery within 48 hours, with the roast date on the bag.
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One lot at a time
Everything we sell started as one of these.
Green, unroasted, stable for months. It becomes coffee on the day you ask for it.
03 — For cafés
You run the bar. We run the coffee.
Roasted to order, shipped in 48 hours. Sampling and pricing both start once we know your volume.
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Fifteen kilos a month, minimum
We take on accounts that move volume. Below that, the retail range is the better buy.
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On-site barista training
Your team, your machine, a recipe card for every drink on your menu.
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From ₹1,050 a kilo
Your rate is set on a 15-minute call, against your blend and your volume.
04 — The library
Everything we know, written down.
Coffee should taste like where it came from and when it was roasted. Everything else is packaging.
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BROOT Coffee Roasters · New Delhi
Freshly roasted coffee, shipped across India.
BROOT is a specialty coffee roastery in New Delhi. We buy green coffee direct from Indian estates — Chikmagalur, Coorg, Koraput, Yercaud — roast it two kilos at a time, and ship within 48 hours with the roast date on the bag. Buy coffee beans online as whole bean or ground to your brewer.
Most coffee sold online in India was roasted months before it was bought, because it was roasted to a forecast and warehoused. We hold green, which keeps, and roast after you order, which is why every bag carries a roast date instead of a shelf life. The range runs from single origin coffee from named estates, through espresso blends built to hold their shape in milk, to fine robusta we take as seriously as the arabica.
By brew method
By roast & process
By origin