BROWN BREW

We South Indians abide by our morning coffee.Not just some coffee-very particularly filter coffee:frothy,foamy,brown,strong,slightly bitter with a sweet after-taste.

Words arent enough to describe our relish for coffee dear coffee.When a guest arrives he is offered a glass of coffee even before water.Not a cup of coffee,George m'boy,a glass of coffee.A small stainless steel glass placed in a small stainless steel cup.Let the Chinese keep all their porcelein,we will mine out all the iron from Kudremukha to quench our thirst for stainless steel flavoured frothy,foamy,brown,strong,slightly bitter with a sweet after-taste coffee.

Stainless steel flavoured frothy,foamy,brown,strong,slightly bitter with a sweet after-taste coffee wakes us from our nocturnal slumber.A morning woken up to the chocolatey smell pervading through the house is a morning well woken up to.The aroma sneaks in through the nostrils,somehow reaches the medulla oblongata and stimulates it to escalate my need for the beverage to such an extent that all my morninng ablutions are carried out quickly and even during my prayers i can do nothing but thank god for bestowing mankind with coffee and making the world bearable.Then as i reach out for my coffee i can't but feel a strong surge of love for my mummy dear for making such excellent coffee.Every south indian woman every morning boils water and pours it into a coffee powder containing filter- a quintessential of every south indian household-and  leaves it for a while to trickle down through the tiny holes into the lower container.Till then she washes the front yard and decorates it with white rangoli.By then the filtrate called the decoction is collected in the lower container which is mixed with milk and sugar,boiled and poured into a glass from quite a distance so as to produce the necessary foam at the top.

The sugary,chocolatey liquid steaming hot is best consumed steaming hot.The taste of this coffee on a blistered tongue is unrivalled.It travels down your esophagus,soothing and clearing your throat and reaches your stomach where it makes a smooth landing filling that muscular sack much better than you would expect of a liquid.Even your tummy dear quivers with the joy of containing such a heavenly fluid!!!

Also our night slumber is brought about by stainless steel flavoured frothy,foamy,brown,strong,slightly bitter with a sweet after-taste coffee.Caffeine stimulates you?Makes you feel awake?Bull shit!!Just see us sleep after a glass of hot filter coffee.

Other than this,any hour of the day is coffee hour.Feeling bored,drink coffee.Woke from siesta,drink coffee.Lights out,nothing to do-drink coffee.Headache?Drink coffee.Any season is coffee season:coffee in rains accompanied with bombai bonda-totally scrumptious.Coffee in winter with a novel,a rug over your legs and roasted kaju:out of this world.Coffee in summer out in the balcony on the swing:delightful.Non-south indians have a misconception that we are obsessed with idli-dosa and people are like,"Din me kitne baar idli-dosa khate ho?"

Ask that for coffee,people.That's more sensible.Those who have tasted mere ghar ki coffee cant stop raving about it.This same coffee is sold in the market at 90 rs per cup!!!The experience of coffee at my home is priceless ;)

Just Google it.You would get a lot about the health benefits of coffee which i would not bore you with.Also the residue in the coffee filter and the stale decoction are not wasted:they are extremely good moisturisers which are used to wash the hair and scrubbed onto the skin leaving you with lustrous black hair and radiant skin.

One in your lifetime do taste this coffee.Maybe in a small canteen amidst the Western Ghats surrounded by virgin forests interspersed with coffee plantations.Or at a small cafe somewhere in Bengaluru with the rain pouring.Or badger your South Indian friend till they invite you over for coffee. ;) :)

But taste you should. ;) (y)

 

Filter Coffe as served in CTR Bangalore.