Narasus Coffee Pure Filter Coffee Ground, 500g Bag

Our favourite non chicory coffee, which we couldn’t it find earlier in Bangalore. Our staple coffee in USA. We were not sure about quality when we found in Amazon , so we just took 1kg. Gladly turned out as per our expectation.
The problem with Amazon is they make shopping complicated with so many sub divisions – like Fresh, Pantry , More etc with each having minimum. Makes it a hassle . So we may source this from somewhere else

While the taste and aroma are too good to resist for a coffee-lover, the thickness is something which matters. As it is 100% pure coffee, we cannot expect much thickness (unlike coffee powder mixed with chicory powder) and hence the stock gets exhausted more often! Overall, a good product but with more coffee consumers at home, your coffee budget needs to expand!

Not as strong as I like my coffee but really nice flavor!

Excellent

As a recent entrant into filter coffee appreciation club, this is my third filter coffee powder in a span of eight months. Prior to this I was using coffee supposedly from coorg and such, received as gift by some very generous farm owners from there. So I don’t have a brand to reference for comparison. But, based on my experience and tallying notes with what previous reviews and the product descriptions say, these are my views:
1. Product is genuine. How does a noob like me know that? One, a distinguished coffee board expert who sampled the coffee, two my personal almost a year long experience as a filter coffee convert. There is indeed only coffee and no chicory. As a plus, both logistic packaging and product packaging were above par, which is certainly crucial to freshness and taste of the coffee powder.
2. Color: have to offer my personal perspective, I should be cut some slack considering its a subjective observation, and not an attempt at challenging this brand’s protagonists. I find the color of the decoction to be muddy and turbid. It doesn’t have a uniform color and usually turns grayish at the top with or without milk.
3. Aroma: Again with the caveat that it’s an non-professional inference, the coffee disappoints in this crucial segment. There is a distinct ‘burnt’ smell from afar and to its further disadvantage the aroma is not not appetizing or endearing, when compared to a less expensive brand (I used recently purchased leo gold as reference)
3. Taste: I feel, an elusive recipe is what made this highly favored coffee powder not taste as good as it is supposed to. Using standard decoction recipe prepared using a two cylinder traditional drip filter, the taste tends to lie between nutty, tarty and slightly bitter. There is a certain fullness to its flavor but it comes with a subtle unappetizing aftertaste, as though the coffee powder doesn’t lend uniformity to the decoction liquid, which could probably also attribute to the cloudiness in appearance.
4. Texture/thickness(?): puritans and professionals may (reasonably) frown upon the idea of comparing produce from two geographically distinct and distant locations, but purely as matter of reference to a midhills arabica variant, the texture of this powder’s decoction lacks much consistency, though as a plus, even a mild decoction produces a strong blend.

I’d concede, at cost of seeming too casual, that with my limited understanding of the institution that’s South Indian filter coffee, it won’t be fair to make jump to any inferences, but to sum up, and just Going by basics such as cloudy appearance and an overly bitter taste, plus watery decoctions made for a slightly less impressive experience, based on my month long daily use if this powder

Fragrant, pure coffee. Grind size was perfect for my espresso machine. Managed to squeeze out some lovely cappuccinos and americanos.
Packaging is also better than your locally available coffee. It’s in a pressurized multilayer pack, I’m guessing it’s filled with nitrogen.
To avoid loss of fragrance I’d suggest putting it in the freezer in a metal tin.

It’s the best filter coffee there is