Vibrant Edition 2
by Aramse
Karadykan Estate , India
- Grape Candy
- Pineapple
- Melon
is a multi-roaster specialty coffee house in Bangalore, devoted to celebrating Indian coffee. The name means shade or shelter in Kannada: a canopy for the roasters, estates, and growers it pours from.
Since 2022, Nerlu has poured hundreds of different coffees from every corner of India. This site tries to archive all of them: every menu, every roaster, every origin.
Shade is where coffee thrives. The forest canopy shelters arabica on Indian hillsides; the cool understory slow-ripens the cherry. A café, in its way, offers the same. A place to sit beneath the canopy and taste what Indian coffee has become.
Across 358 coffees, experimentals (103) and naturals (88) run almost neck-and-neck, from 65 estates across 12 Indian states. A living vocabulary of 467 distinct tasting notes, led by Peach.
Chikmagalur
163 coffees · 42 regions in all
Karnataka
212 coffees · 12 states in all
Peach
logged on 24 coffees
SLN 795
17 of 76 coffees with a varietal disclosed
The 467 notes Nerlu has logged across the archive, weighted by how often each has appeared. Larger words have shown up on more coffees.
The 10 roasters that have poured the most coffees at Nerlu.
Every coffee at Nerlu has been processed somewhere on this taxonomy. Each lane is a family; each chip is a distinct process Nerlu has featured, sized by the number of coffees.
Dedicated roaster spotlights and themed multi-roaster showcases, in near-equal measure.
23 coffees · 6% of the archive
Coffees from Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim. Young estates in the hills above the plains, with processing experiments that rarely reach the rest of the country.
Every coffee at Nerlu traces its roots to a specific corner of India. The Western Ghats of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala anchor the story, from Chikmagalur and Coorg to the Nilgiris, Shevaroys, and Palani Hills. The map reaches further: Andhra Pradesh's Araku Valley, Odisha's Koraput plateau and Similiguda hills, the rarely-mapped Satpura Range above Chikhaldara in Maharashtra, Darjeeling in the Himalayan foothills, Sikkim's Kangchenjunga slopes, and the young, fast-emerging Northeast across Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Assam. A single menu might carry coffee from eight states and several mountain systems, each estate tended by farmers who know their slope by hand.
On this date, in years past
26 May 2026 to 10 Jul 2026
4 coffees
20 Apr 2026 to 25 May 2026
5 coffees
24 Mar 2026 to 19 Apr 2026
4 coffees
27 Feb 2026 to 23 Mar 2026
6 coffees
6 Feb 2026 to 26 Feb 2026
9 coffees
14 Jan 2026 to 5 Feb 2026
6 coffees
5 Dec 2025 to 13 Jan 2026
7 coffees
13 Nov 2025 to 4 Dec 2025
7 coffees
21 Oct 2025 to 12 Nov 2025
6 coffees
23 Sept 2025 to 20 Oct 2025
9 coffees
30 Aug 2025 to 22 Sept 2025
1 coffee
19 Aug 2025 to 29 Aug 2025
5 coffees
28 Jul 2025 to 18 Aug 2025
7 coffees
13 Jun 2025 to 27 Jul 2025
5 coffees
8 May 2025 to 12 Jun 2025
7 coffees
7 Apr 2025 to 7 May 2025
4 coffees
12 Mar 2025 to 6 Apr 2025
6 coffees
21 Feb 2025 to 11 Mar 2025
7 coffees
29 Jan 2025 to 20 Feb 2025
3 coffees
6 Jan 2025 to 28 Jan 2025
6 coffees
3 Dec 2024 to 5 Jan 2025
5 coffees
4 Nov 2024 to 2 Dec 2024
6 coffees
8 Oct 2024 to 3 Nov 2024
5 coffees
25 Sept 2024 to 7 Oct 2024
3 coffees
9 Sept 2024 to 24 Sept 2024
1 coffee
22 Aug 2024 to 8 Sept 2024
4 coffees
2 Aug 2024 to 21 Aug 2024
4 coffees
7 Jul 2024 to 1 Aug 2024
4 coffees
17 Jun 2024 to 6 Jul 2024
6 coffees
22 May 2024 to 16 Jun 2024
7 coffees
1 May 2024 to 21 May 2024
6 coffees
12 Apr 2024 to 30 Apr 2024
4 coffees
20 Mar 2024 to 11 Apr 2024
6 coffees
26 Feb 2024 to 19 Mar 2024
4 coffees
14 Feb 2024 to 25 Feb 2024
6 coffees
31 Jan 2024 to 13 Feb 2024
6 coffees
12 Jan 2024 to 30 Jan 2024
6 coffees
15 Dec 2023 to 11 Jan 2024
6 coffees
29 Nov 2023 to 14 Dec 2023
6 coffees
11 Nov 2023 to 28 Nov 2023
1 coffee
8 Nov 2023 to 10 Nov 2023
6 coffees
29 Sept 2023 to 7 Nov 2023
7 coffees
15 Sept 2023 to 28 Sept 2023
7 coffees
28 Aug 2023 to 14 Sept 2023
5 coffees
1 Aug 2023 to 27 Aug 2023
5 coffees
12 Jul 2023 to 31 Jul 2023
7 coffees
13 Jun 2023 to 11 Jul 2023
4 coffees
29 May 2023 to 12 Jun 2023
6 coffees
11 May 2023 to 28 May 2023
6 coffees
25 Apr 2023 to 10 May 2023
6 coffees
4 Apr 2023 to 24 Apr 2023
6 coffees
17 Mar 2023 to 3 Apr 2023
7 coffees
18 Feb 2023 to 16 Mar 2023
6 coffees
3 Feb 2023 to 17 Feb 2023
3 coffees
1 Feb 2023 to 2 Feb 2023
4 coffees
30 Jan 2023 to 31 Jan 2023
5 coffees
3 Jan 2023 to 29 Jan 2023
11 coffees
13 Dec 2022 to 2 Jan 2023
7 coffees
28 Nov 2022 to 12 Dec 2022
10 coffees
16 Nov 2022 to 27 Nov 2022
1 coffee
15 Nov 2022 to 15 Nov 2022
8 coffees
3 Nov 2022 to 14 Nov 2022
9 coffees
17 Oct 2022 to 2 Nov 2022
10 coffees
7 Oct 2022 to 16 Oct 2022
1 coffee
Every coffee served at Nerlu, documented: origins, processes, tasting notes, and the menus they appeared in.