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An unofficial record of almost every coffee Nerlu has poured.
About this archive
This is a fan-built static archive. Not official, not affiliated, not authoritative. It exists because one person kept going back.
I've been a regular at the Crescent Road outlet since the first or second week they opened, back in 2022. What kept me going back wasn't any single coffee, it was the pattern: a coffee shop that actually runs specialty coffee as a serious, ongoing project. Most places settle into a menu and keep it. Nerlu doesn't. Every two or three weeks a new pour-over lineup lands, sometimes with coffees I've never seen on a menu anywhere else in India.
Over the years I've tried most of what they've poured. The espresso menu stays strong and dependable, the seasonal menus mark the year, and the rotating pour-over menu keeps the exploration going. The staff is incredible, the owners are easy to talk to, and the food is better than it has any right to be at a coffee shop. You tend to meet good people there.
A single shop working its way through this many coffees over this many years is rare, and rare things feel worth capturing. This site is that capture: a running catalogue of every coffee I've seen Nerlu pour.
About Nerlu
Nerlu is a multi-roaster specialty coffee house in Bangalore, founded in 2022. The name means shade or shelter in Kannada, which reads two ways. Shade is where coffee thrives, under the forest canopy that shelters arabica on Indian hillsides. And a café, at its best, is a shelter of its own: a place to sit beneath the canopy and taste what Indian coffee has become.
Three outlets now, each a little different. A consistent espresso menu that most coffee shops would struggle to maintain. Seasonal menus that shift with winter, monsoon, and summer. And the thing that sets Nerlu apart: an ever-changing pour-over and manual-brew menu that rotates every two or three weeks, pulling single origins from independent Indian roasters.
If you miss a coffee, it may not come back. That impermanence is part of the experience.
Credits
This archive is unofficial and unaffiliated with Nerlu Café or any of the roasters featured here. It exists out of appreciation, not authority.
All coffee names, roaster names, and related trademarks belong to their respective owners. If you represent Nerlu or a featured roaster and would like something corrected or removed, please get in touch.
Corrections & contributions
This archive is maintained by hand, which means it has gaps and mistakes. If you spot something wrong, a coffee name, a processing method, an origin that's off, there's a simple way to flag it: click "Spot an error?" in the footer and describe what's wrong.
The archive lives in a public git repository. If you're technically inclined, pull requests with corrections are welcome.