Monsooned Malabar-AA Super Grade and AA Grade

As the color changes from bright green to pale gold, the monsooned beans look more like peanuts.

Working with the people who custom monsoon Josuma's coffees, we have found a way to segregate fully monsooned beans for a Super Grade of monsooned coffee. This is an important detail, because many monsooned coffees are only partially monsooned due to the irregular length of the monsoon season. Josuma separates its fully monsooned beans from its partially monsooned beans, selling the former as AA Super Grade and the latter as AA Grade. These coffees come in 110-pound bags.

In the cup, Monsooned Malabar is low in acid, high in body, and has a mellow, pleasant, earthy flavor. This is the lowest-acid coffee in the world. It sells well as a varietal, but is also an excellent blender, helping mute the acidity of certain African and Central American coffees without compromising the fruitiness of those beans. Perhaps its best use, however, is as a low-acid, neutral base of a classic Italian-style espresso blend.