Attikan Estate
Blue Tokai Coffee
₹700/250g
Chocolatey and stone-fruit medium-dark: sweet and balanced black from an espresso machine. The roaster recommends it for an espresso machine.
Best coffee for espresso machine in India
The best beans for an espresso machine are the ones whose roast and flavour profile suit how it extracts.
An espresso machine forces hot water through a tightly packed bed of fine grounds under pressure. The brew is short, so the coffee has little time to give up its flavour. The beans have to dissolve quickly and evenly, and the grind has to be consistent.
Medium to medium-dark roasts are the practical range. They extract more easily than light roasts, taste sweet at shot strength and hold up in milk. A coffee labelled espresso is not automatically better for it, and espresso is not only dark roasts. Light roasts can work on a good machine with a good grinder, but they are harder to dial in. Start easier.
Three coffees to start with
These are the current three picks from the same rules used by the finder: brewer roast window, black-coffee flavour fit, first-bag exclusions, community signal and one coffee per roaster.
Selection
Araku Coffee
₹760/250g
Caramel and chocolatey medium-dark: sweet and balanced black from an espresso machine. The roaster recommends it for an espresso machine.
Truffle Twilight
Rossette Coffee
₹750/250g
Chocolatey and stone-fruit medium-dark: sweet and balanced black from an espresso machine. The roaster recommends it for an espresso machine.