29 Jan Coffee in…Russia
Coffee culture in Russia is speeding high in ranking as the most drinkable…
From espresso abusers to coconut milky addicts.
Coffee maps
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Where...
Where…WHERE to buy that roasted drug?
Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana, Vietnam — well-known coffee lands for Russians.
For a while it was not possible to get this wanted brown bean from sunny blazing azing places. Only India supplied Russian with coffee cans, starting from 1980 or even earlier — literally was in a can, pretty much in the form that Turkish coffee Mehdi is selling now — granulated or freeze-dried coffee. Was treated as a desert like drink in the ice buffing polar world…
But this was and is the main point about coffee — the ‘charm’ of being limited edition in Russia — growing thousands miles away, on all-year round summer fields. Like taking a sip of smth that is out of this frosted world; shortening distances of totally different worlds while taking a coffee break — thats how many people think, and pretty much why it become prestigious; ‘just have a coffee’, ‘lets meet for a coffee’, ‘would you get a coffee with me’.
How casual and event making this drink become in Russia. In Europe as well.
Back in 1990, in Russia you would hardly find any kind of coffee except dry ready-to-drink kind of substance called ‘coffee’.
Nescafe, Jacobs, Paulig the most known in Russia … Sold in the glossy jar and tightly-pressed packages
‘Whoop whoop! finally some exotic goods reached us!’ . From about 1990 coffee was easy get: quite cheap, right there, in the shop, next to our door but only in one version — dry sublimated version.
Types...
Canned, jarred, pressed, capsuled…
In a Can…What again? Sounds like Anakin…Was entered with India’s goods, and was like a luxury thing; small group of peeps had it and sold mostly in Moscow. The can type is now popular brand in Turkey — Mehdi effendi, (for turka) tinny tiny grained coffee powder — , very popular for its old, heritage passing coffee business I bet, not so much for its smooth bitter taste. They don’t differ as much as you might think looking at their cost — there are other nicely grounded coffee brands that cost cheaper. Fine taste coffee, once in a while, and nice facial scrub after drinking ( even when its raw, rub your face with it — very refreshing. WARNING: face may look like a coffee bean from using it too much !LOL)
Jarred — instant coffee form, MOST POPULAR, pardon not for turka, ‘hot water add — you set’ — easy to make and taste like a…um like a normal coffee, to be honest, like a coffee out of french pressed or coffee machine. Ah, for this words, sure, coffee sommeliers would counter me on this.
Pressed package. By cost its the average : not so cheap and not so expensive as capsule coffee. The second most sold coffee type in Russia, after the Jarred Ready-to-drink type. This pressed one is made for coffee machines and Brazil, Vietnam as well as few African countries trade this coffee kind to Russia. Personal choice.
Capsule coffee. Not knowing type. Still new and made for expensive coffee machines that usually break and cost a half of a jet to repair. Smoother texture, more flavoured to drink it all day long and thats how you break that ripoff machine. Not worth it.
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