Our Story

Earth care, people care and fair share

Été Coffee

founded on July 2, 2016, is the first specialty coffee roasting company from Northeast India, rooted in tradition and committed to uplifting the coffee community. Beginning as a small home-based roastery, Été Coffee has grown with a steadfast dedication to preserving the authenticity of coffee-making while supporting local farmers and artisans.

OUR VISION

“Seek justice through excellence and build a brand that live and inspire beyond Été Coffee”

Our Mission

“To redefine the narrative of employment in the region by ensuring justice throughout the entire process chain, from farm to cup.”

OUR OBJECTIVES

To seek justice in FIVE thematic areas which form the core value of Été Coffee

EML (Educate, Motivate and Lead) Network provides a safety net against any form of exploitation. Farmers form the integral part of the entire coffee industry and hence due right and benefit must be ensured.

To not to exploit our resources but to optimize its benefit by fostering value addition sector locally in a sustainable manner.

To sustainably employ and pay our employees honorably, including every stakeholder in the process chain

EYF (Employability of Youth Fund) is a self-styled fund where 10% of the proceeds are saved, and the accrued amount is utilized to sponsor Youth to undergo skills training in order to become employable.

To strictly follow high standardized protocol from farm to cup.

Our journey and its Key moments

2016

2nd July

We began our journey as the first specialty coffee roasting company in Northeast India, roasting from a small home setup and launching our online store.

28th August

We introduced our very first product, the Mini Pack, and began shipping across India.

2017

6th July

Our second product, the Tube Pack, hit the shelves.

10th August

We followed up with the launch of our Full Pack/Café Pack.

2018

31st March

Our fourth product, the Roastery Pack, was launched.

2nd July

We launched the EML Network to support and educate coffee growers.

2019

2nd January

We began offering free consultancy services to help cafés and entrepreneurs grow with us.

2nd July

We proudly opened our second café, Brewery 2.

28th December

We hosted the Second Coffee Community Meetup in Nagaland, launched our Coffee Education Programme, and introduced Coffee Lab Services.

2020

11th April

We expanded into baking with the launch of Tartine by Été Coffee, our very own sourdough bakery.

2021

3rd January

We opened the first Coffee School in Northeast India, empowering aspiring professionals across the coffee value chain.

7th December

We hosted the Indian Aeropress Championship for the first time.

16th December

We established our corporate office, marking a new chapter in our growth.

2022

30th May

We inaugurated the new space for Été Coffee School to accommodate more learners and expand our training capacity.

2nd July

We launched the Été Coffee Equipment Store to make specialty coffee tools more accessible.

24th September

We hosted the Indian Aeropress Championship 2022—the first ever in Northeast India.

16th October

We proudly represented at the national level of the Indian Aeropress Championship.

1st November

We launched Été Événts, our mobile coffee bar for weddings, gatherings, and all celebrations.

2023

30th January

We co-hosted a Latte Art Throwdown in partnership with Kaapi Machines.

27th March

We opened our second Coffee School in Imphal, Manipur.

2nd July

We officially launched the Coffee Repository to preserve and share local coffee knowledge.

31st August

We introduced our fifth product: Premium 137.

25th–28th September

We participated in the World Coffee Conference, taking our story to the global stage.

2024

20th February

We opened our second Roastery and Production House to meet growing demand.

29th May

We released our sixth product: NR-37.

18th June

We collaborated with the Coffee Board of India to further coffee education and innovation.

2nd July

We relaunched our e-commerce website with a fresh new look.

1st December

We launched our seventh product: Easy Pour, making brewing even more convenient.

The company

At Été Coffee, our work is shaped by three core pillars: research, social impact, and craft. Through research, we explore and improve the coffee ecosystem with a focus on quality and sustainability. Our social initiatives invest in people by supporting education, training, and local growth. And through our craft, we create meaningful coffee experiences that reflect care, knowledge, and connection from farm to cup.

1. RESEARCH

Launched on the 28th of December 2019. The set up is primarily designed in line with the company's vision to establish a state-of-the-art coffee lab, a center of excellence for research and innovation, for testing, sampling, research and education.

Été Coffee is proud to own four Research and Observation farms. The main objective of the farm is to engage farmers, scholars, coffee professionals and researchers to have a hands-on experience of the ever evolving dynamics of the terrior, thereby studying and documenting to develop best practices for future training and research.

With years of active research and documentation on coffees of Nagaland, a Coffee Knowledge Repository and Library was set up. This will foster a platform for knowledge sharing among planters, traders, coffee professionals and scholars.

2. SOCIAL INITIATIVE

EYF is Été Coffee's own self styled fund where 10% of the proceeds is accrued to sponsor youth from the region to undergo skills development training in order to become employable. So far 43 individuals have availed EYF.

ECLS is a self-funded social initiative of Été Coffee. With the given experience of 8 years working closely with the coffee growers in Nagaland from farm to cup, it has realized early on that building a quality control mechanism at the farm level is the way forward.

The Coffee Laboratory Services is based out of Kohima, Nagaland and has been in operation for the past 4 years. By 2030, it aims to contribute in making Nagaland a high-quality Specialty Coffee producing state at both local and global market. This will ensure optimum economic return from a minimum use of land. Hence improved socio-economic status, and will drastically reduce slash- and-burn of jungle used for subsistence farming.

CEP is a project under EML (Educate Motivate and Lead) Program, with its goal to Sensitize, Identify partners, Network with allied Professionals and thereby ensuring sustainable growth.

One of the five core values of Été Coffee is to seek justice for the given resources by fostering value addition sector locally and to enjoy its optimum benefit. Therefore it promote building market within the state/region by providing free consultancy services. It has helped build more than 24 cafes in Nagaland and Manipur, including two of Été Coffee's own.

3. BUSINESS

It all started from a small palm sized kitchen stove top roaster with an initial investment as ₹6400/-. It has now grown into a full fledged roastery and production house. Supplying its products to 24 cafes and a retail line for kitchen end users. The second Roastery is all set to meet the ever growing demand outside of the state.

It has two coffee breweries serving more than 30 different types of coffee beverages built from exclusively Naga Coffee, ranging from fancy manual brews to espresso based coffees including two of its originals.

The School offers eight different courses from plantation, greens, roasting, brewing, sensory, barista, latte art to cafe operation. Having completed 39 batches with

268 individuals trained from the school, it includes farmers, curer, cafe owners, scholars and baristas.

Événts by Été Coffee is a mobile coffee bar catering to the need of market outside coffee houses. It offers unlimited supply of coffee to all occasions at an affordable rate. Wedding, social gathering, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.

Launched on the 2nd of July 2022, it aims to offer a hassle free and easy and affordable access to all Specialty equipment from kitchen equipment to cafe and roastery.