THE STORY BEHIND EVERY CUP
Our journey is a tale of passion for coffee, and at the heart of it all lie our core values: transparency, traceability, and uncompromising quality.
Step by step, we embark on this with the coffee producers, each one meticulously tending to the plants with care and expertise. Through the laborious yet rewarding process of harvesting, processing, and roasting, the coffee transforms, evolving into the delightful brew you savour.
We take immense pride in being deeply involved at every step to ensure that every single bean meets our exacting standards. The coffee we roast is the coffee we like to drink, and we hope you like it too.
Beliefs
Roasteries
Farms
BELIEFS
Our mission since we started has stayed simple: introduce our customers to the estates we directly buy our great tasting coffee from, roast the beans with care, and make high quality coffee more accessible through our cafes and our website. The coffee we roast is the coffee we like to drink, and we hope you like it too.
At GOK Coffee, we follow a simple set of beliefs.
Transparency is much more than just where we get our beans from.
The first thing we did when our company was to highlight the estates and winning farms. This idea of transparency originally evolved to the way we worked in other areas too – our baristas are always present to discuss brewing tips, our customer service team are there to walk you through your coffee questions, and our roasting team is always willing to chat.
A culture of constant learning is the key to always pushing coffee forward.
We are constantly researching, testing and implementing best practices throughout our business to raise the bar. Making refractometers essential for our cold brewing, trialing advanced sensory techniques, releasing estate-specific roasting profiles on our website, and experimenting with processing are just some of the ways that our mighty skilled team is constantly evolving the way Indian coffee is brewed, experienced or communicated about.
Sourcing the best coffee starts at the farm itself.
Although we have a dedicated sourcing team for green beans and have invested in establishing quality roasting parameters, we know that a lot more steps to have a great good cup. This is why we work closely with our Q-Grader coffee tasting centres to import leading procedures such as equipping baristas with assessing and reporting tools for precision brewing, and cupping every single batch that is roasted to ensure consistent quality.
ROASTERIES
When we started roasting in 2013, we had a small 1kg machine that had us roasting for twelve to fourteen hours straight on most nights because of how small it was. Though we have grown, in the size of our roasting machines (we now roast on two 15kg and one 25kg Probat machines), and the team of roasters, we continue to spend as much time on analyzing quality, improving our roasting quality based on constant feedback.
We are constantly researching, testing and implementing best practices throughout our business to raise the bar. Evaluating hundreds of green bean samples prior to the season, using advanced sensory techniques such as SCA decision points for selection of lots, optimizing our roasting profiles. Conducting advanced sensory trainings for our roasters, and experimenting with processing methods at the farm level are just some of the ways that we're always pushing coffee forward.
Although we have a dedicated sourcing team for green beans and have invested in establishing quality roasting parameters, we know that a lot more steps to have a great cup of coffee goes. This is why we work closely with our Q-Grader coffee tasting centres to import leading procedures such as cupping every single batch that is roasted to ensure consistent quality.
Our belief in transparency and traceability extends beyond just purchasing our customers to visit us. To take the intersection with your coffee a level further, we will soon be running on-going tours of the roastery. We roast from Monday to Friday and look forward to having you drop by to see some of your favourite coffees being roasted.
FARMS
When we first started in 2013, we worked with a handful of producers who shared our belief that India was ripe for a specialty coffee revolution. After 11 years, we're glad to have had that belief turn into a booming industry, with more Indians enjoying homegrown specialty coffee than ever before.
Now, we hold long-standing relationships with over 10 of India's best farms, each raising the bar for what a cup of carefully grown coffee can be. We're honoured to source from them, and bring you the coffee they grow, along with the stories of the love and care with which it comes to be.