Five Stories - Light Roast

We always recommend purchasing whole beans to preserve the freshness of the coffee for as long as possible. Grinding your beans right before making your coffee is life-changing. You’ll notice more flavor and aroma in your cup. However, coffee does remain fresh for 3 months and having your coffee pre-ground saves time. If you must get the coffee pre-ground, this is what we recommend:

• Medium Fine: South Indian filter, Moka Pot, Drip, Home Espresso, Chemex
• Medium: Pour-over (Hario V60, Kalita Wave, Cone Drippers), Aeropress, Flat bottom filters, Siphon Brewers
• Coarse: French Press, Steeping/Pot, Percolator
• Extra Coarse: Cold Brew

During our soft launch, you place your pre-order for coffee now, and we collect all orders to ship at once from India. This ensures you receive freshly roasted, high-quality coffee, rather than inventory that has been sitting on a shelf.

All pre-orders will arrive in the U.S. on June 15 and will be shipped pan-USA immediately after arrival, with an estimated delivery time of 5 days.

In the future, we plan to partner with a local roaster to roast and ship coffee fresh throughout the year. But as a new business, managing fresh inventory can be challenging. Pre-ordering is our way of sustainably launching – rather than investing our savings into inventory that we are not guaranteed to sell.

Coffee tastes much better when freshly roasted and shipped. By pre-ordering, you’re directly supporting a zero-waste approach, where only the necessary amount of coffee is imported from India—nothing extra, nothing wasted.

The pulp-sundried processing method is a hybrid approach between the washed (wet) and natural (dry) coffee processing methods. Here’s how it works:

1. After the coffee cherries are harvested, their outer skin is removed (pulping), but the sticky fruit layer (mucilage) is left on the beans.
2. The beans, still covered in mucilage, are then laid out to dry in the sun. This drying process can take several days and requires frequent turning to ensure even drying.

How it affects taste: This method creates a unique flavor profile that’s both clean and sweet. The mucilage imparts fruity and caramel-like notes during drying, making the coffee subtly sweeter.

Jaggery is a traditional unrefined sweetener made from sugarcane juice or palm sap, widely used across South Asia. Unlike white sugar, jaggery retains its natural molasses content, giving it a rich, caramel-like sweetness with hints of earthy complexity.

In coffee flavor notes, jaggery refers to a warm, sweet undertone with slight hints of molasses or brown sugar.

The Biligirirangana Hills (B.R. Hills) Tiger Reserve is a stunning wildlife sanctuary located in southern Karnataka, where the Eastern and Western Ghats meet. This unique location makes it a biodiversity hotspot, home to a wide range of flora and fauna, including tigers, elephants, leopards, and 270+ bird species.

Fun Fact: The B.R. Hills region is also significant in Karnataka's spiritual heritage, housing the Biligiri Ranganathaswamy Temple, a historic site dedicated to Lord Ranganatha (a form of Vishnu).

The Soliga community is an indigenous tribe native to the Biligirirangana Hills (B.R. Hills) in Karnataka. Known for their harmonious relationship with the forest, the Soligas have lived in this biodiverse region for centuries, relying on the land for food, medicine, and cultural traditions.