2014 is off and running and I’m slow to the party – perhaps some coffee will help perk things up!
These past weeks, coffee harvesting has been going full tilt here in Coorg. Every now and then, a whiff of the distinctive scent of fermenting ripe coffee berries wafts by on the cool January breeze. It’s not exactly what you’d term a pleasing fragrance, but one that for many of us has a pleasant association – that of a crop being readied for the market as another year’s coffee cycle comes to fruition.
There’s more coffee in the air. I see reports in the local papers about the 5th India International Coffee Conference being held in Bangalore from the 21st to the 25th of January. It sounds like rather a big deal, and includes a number of workshops and events aimed at those in the business of coffee as well for the general public.