India - Dark Monsoon Malabar

Name: India - Dark Monsoon Malabar
Brand: Fresh Bean Trading Co
Availability: InStock

Earthy · Spicy · Tobacco · Dark chocolate · Treacle · Hazelnut

Earthy Spice Chocolate Caramel and sweet Nutty

£42.95/kg

31% above similar on their 250 g bag

£42.95 for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about £0.77 for an 18 g espresso dose

The badge compares the standard 250 g bag at £51.80/kg against 33 coffees from 31 roasters in India (standard bag, 200–350 g), so that every coffee is compared on the same size.

Price observed 4 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

Delivery cost not stated by the roaster

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Bag	Price	Per kilo
250 g	£12.95	£51.80/kg
500 g	£24.95	£49.90/kg
1 kg	£42.95	£42.95/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 17% cheaper per kilo than the 250 g.

How it sits among coffee from India

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from India: 123 of 194 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Fresh Bean Trading Co describe this coffee as caramel and sweet, chocolate, nutty, spice, earthy. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from India; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from India, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All India coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

India

Variety

Catimor

Not stated

region, farm or estate, producer, process, altitude, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

Where each fact came from

Species

“The processing begins with top-grade beans, Arabica cherry AB, that has already been processed by the dry method.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“Varietals - Kents, S.795, Catimor, Selection 9 Process - Monsooned Taste notes - Earthy, Spicy, Tobacco, Dark chocolate, Treacle and Hazelnut.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“Taste notes - Earthy, Spicy, Tobacco, Dark chocolate, Treacle and Hazelnut.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“Region - Southern India – Karnataka, Western Ghats Varietals - Kents, S.795, Catimor, Selection 9 Process - Monsooned Taste notes - Earthy, Spicy, Tobacco, Dark chocolate, Treacle and Hazelnut.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roast level

“Roast Level - Medium/Dark The colour, shape, and size of these beans from India, as well as their aroma and taste, are the result of special post-harvest processing.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“Taste notes - Earthy, Spicy, Tobacco, Dark chocolate, Treacle and Hazelnut.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

How it travelled

“The colour, shape, and size of these beans from India, as well as their aroma and taste, are the result of special post-harvest processing. Historically, coffee was shipped to Europe in wooden sailing vessels that took four to six months to sail around the Cape of Good Hope and up at their destinations.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.