The best Indian coffee roasters for home brewing

Brewing coffee at home is no longer just about convenience. It is fast becoming a ritual. As café culture matures and Indian consumers grow more curious about flavour, roast profiles, and origin, interest in the best Indian coffee roasters has risen sharply. 

A November 2025 paper on India's coffee production and consumption projects the country’s overall market to grow at a CAGR of 8.9 per cent by 2028, with the out-of-home coffee segment expanding even faster. Yet, parallel to this growth is a quieter shift. More Indians are investing in brewing coffee at home, not as a substitute for cafés, but as a personal practice rooted in taste, experimentation, and routine. 

“The metropolitan cities of the northern, eastern, and western parts of the country had already started brewing at home with the arrival of  cafe culture in 2015,” says Aditya Sharma, founder, Pour Over Coffee Roasters. “The real catalyst was the lockdown phase when many people started working from home, leading to brewing coffee at home. It’s a ritual that people seek today—almost like a hobby or a social activity. There is a sense of excitement and curiosity among people to learn more about the technicality of coffee rather than the functionality of just making a beverage at home.”

Coffee beans and roast levels explained

There are four main types of coffee beans: Arabica, Robusta, Liberica, and Excelsa. Each carries a distinct flavour profile, caffeine levels, and growing requirement. Arabica is the most widely consumed, known for its smooth acidity and sweetness. Robusta is stronger and comparatively bitter, with higher caffeine content. Liberica leans smoky and fruity, while Excelsa is tart and complex.

Roasting plays a defining role in how these beans taste. Light roasts preserve brightness and floral or fruity notes. Medium roasts balance acidity and sweetness. Dark roasts deliver bold, smoky flavours with heavier body and lower acidity. Coffee blends combine origins, varieties, or roast levels to suit specific preferences, often designed for certain brewing methods. 

As awareness grows, Indian coffee brands are increasingly helping coffee drinkers identify what they like, rather than prescribing taste. The Indian coffee roasters below reflect this shift.

Indian coffee roasters redefining home brewing

1. Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters 

Blue Tokai offers their own blends of roasted and ground Indian coffee—light, medium, and dark options—with specific blends like Vienna Roast (dark), French Roast (dark and strong), Dhak Blend (dark and medium), Basankhan Estate (bittersweet), Silver Oak (medium) and so forth. The dark roasts are strong, with notes of cocoa, bitter-sweetness, oaky and dark chocolate flavours. The medium roasts are more balanced, with complex notes like hazelnut, honey, grapes, or caramel. The medium-dark roasts comprise rich flavors like dark chocolate, fig, and roasted almonds.

Blue Tokai also helps customers select coffee based on flavour profiles like chocolate and nutty or bold and bitter. They also offer limited edition blends like their 13th Birthday Blend which brings together natural lots from Stanmore, Orchardale, and Riverdale Estates in Yercaud, along with a washed lot from the Unakki Estate in Chikmagalur. The flavour profile reminds drinkers of Black Forest cake along with notes of strawberry, chocolate, cherry, and pear, besides a lingering finish of chocolate-covered strawberries. 

The brand informs customers how to brew their coffee: espresso, AeroPress, French Press, moka pot, and pour over. They also have easy pour sachets, capsules and capsule coffee machines. 

Log on to: Bluetokaicoffee.com

Price: ₹300 (easy pour pack) onwards

2. Araku Coffee

Araku Coffee has a wide range of roasts from the Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh. These include Omni Roasts (versatile medium) or Light Roasts for fruity profiles, or Medium and Dark Roasts usually consumed as espresso or brewed in a moka pot. This Indian craft coffee brand rates their coffee from 1 (lightest) to 4 (darkest). The lighter ones make for great filter coffee. The coffees are available as whole beans or as ground powder. They also make their own moka pot—a three-part coffee maker made using insulated wood, enamel and food-grade stainless steel, inspired by traditional Japanese teapots in design. They also have an AeroPress and an Origami dripper. 

Log on to: Arakucoffee.in

Price: ₹540 onwards

3. Maverick & Farmer

With coffee harvested at their 140-acre estate in Coorg (Arabica and Robusta coffee plants), Maverick & Farmer roast their beans in Bengaluru before sending out whole beans or ground coffee across India. Their range includes a house blend Parama, a medium roast blend of Arabica (92%) and Robusta (8%), with peaberry beans of both. The small amount of Robusta makes it ideal for espresso brewing, with notes of chocolate and caramel.

The Tall Dark Handsome is a dark French roast with a bittersweet and slightly smoky flavour made using Arabica beans. The brand also makes their own moka pot and pourover brewer and its accompanying accessories, including a digital coffee brewing thermometer.

Log on to: Maverickandfarmer.com

Price: ₹650 onwards 

4. Sleepy Owl Coffee

Known for being a go-to choice for travel-friendly Instant Coffee Cold Brew bags, Sleepy Owl offers a range of roasts focussing on their rich, bold, and chocolatey 100% Arabica Dark Roast, and medium roasts in flavours including French vanilla and hazelnut. They also offer a range of coarseness of ground coffee—fine, medium, coarse—which works for different brewing methods. Other options include South Indian filter coffee with Robusta and chicory, and even a Protein Coffee, both from Chikmagalur. 

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Price: ₹599 onwards

5. Devan's Coffee

Established in 1962, Devan’s is known for sourcing and roasting single-origin coffees and crafting blends that customers can mix and match. Their options include Monsooned Malabar AA Pure Arabica, where the beans are cured only on the Malabar coast during the monsoon (June to September) lending the coffee a unique flavour. The sun-dried green beans’ deliberate exposure to the sea air and monsoon winds make the beans swell, thus reducing the acidity, giving a mellow taste and a golden hue. Medium roasted, it has notes of spice, wood, chocolate, and nuts. The Indian Arabica Peaberry is a hand-selected, pulped, and fully washed coffee, made by separating the peaberries from the rest of the coffee beans. It is dense, uniform, and is given a longer roast to make a strong brew with a floral aroma with a chocolaty finish.

The brand also offers options like Organic Arabica Coffee, The Lodhi Blend, Arabica Plantation AA, Arabica Plantation AAA, Special Blends, Robusta Kaapi Royale, Oriental Espresso Blend, Viennese Blend, Arabica Peaberry Dark Roast, Arabica French Roast, and Arabica Plantation AAA Dark Roast, with an option of adding chicory to customised blends. 

Devan’s also makes tea blends besides a range of equipment like an AeroPress, moka pots, and tea infusers.  

Log on to:Devans.in

Price: ₹1,100 per 500g

6. Pour Over Coffee Roasters

Launched in 2025, Pour Over Coffee Roasters offers a range of blends from Chikmagalur, Karnataka. The medium-dark ACAA (Arabica Cherry AA) variant is a balanced Arabica that brings forth the sweetness of cherry retaining depth and complexity, with layers of cranberry and milk chocolate. Their MNEB (Mysore Nugget Extra Bold) is a medium-dark roast with flavours that lean towards roasted walnuts, dark chocolate, and pine, lending a refined bitterness. The brand is introducing two international beans—Colombia Natural and Colombia Papayo, and also offers a Barrel Aged blend. 

Log on to: Pourover.in 

Price: ₹550 onwards 

7. Subko Coffee Roasters

Founded in 2020, Subko Coffee Roasters sources their coffee beans from across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura, as well as Nepal and Sri Lanka, offering Arabica, Robusta, Liberica, and Excelsa variants. They also have special coffee projects like Project Pearl from the Ratnagiri Estate in Karnataka, a light roast with notes of marigold, dragon fruit, and peach tea. Project 360, meanwhile, is a medium roast Arabica from Badra Estates in Chikmagalur, with notes of green apple, apricot, and hazelnut. They also have Pourover options, besides roasts available in nearly all options: whole bean, AeroPress, pourover, moka pot, espresso machine, clever dripper, French Press/cold brew, filter coffee and electric drip coffee machine. They also have equipment like Origami coffee dripper, Kalita filters, pourover kettle, Kalita wave dripper, and the AeroPress.  

Log on to: Subko.coffee

Price: ₹895 onwards

How to choose coffee equipment for home brewing

Choosing a brewing method depends on one’s taste preferences as much as effort. French Press and AeroPress work well for fuller-bodied, chocolate-forward coffees. Pour-over methods such as V60 highlight citrus and fruit notes. Espresso machines and moka pots deliver intensity and structure, while automatic drip machines and French Presses suit low-effort routines.

“For a home brewer, it’s about easy and accessible brewing methods,” says Sharma. fo “Coffee should fit into your lifestyle, not demand one,” he adds. 

Grind size matters. Fine grinds suit espresso and moka pots. Coarse grinds work best for French Press and cold brew. Medium-coarse grinds are ideal for pour over, drip, and AeroPress. 

Brewing coffee at home is less about mastering technique and more about understanding preference. The rise of Indian coffee brands focused on clarity, education, and flavour reflects a larger cultural shift. Coffee is no longer just consumed, it is being explored.

Finding the right roast, blend, and brewing method is not about perfection. It is about consistency, curiosity, and a cup that fits naturally into everyday life.