The erstwhile Mysore royal family forayed into coffee retailing business by launching three specialty coffee varieties under brand name \u201cBerunda Coffee.\u201d The Gandaberunda is the mythical two-headed bird that served as the royal emblem for the Wadiyar Dynasty.<\/p>\n
The coffee varieties are named after palace elephants — Drona, South Indian filter, and Arjuna and Gajendra, as hand-poured brews. All three are AA-grade, chicory-free, roast-date stamped coffees\u00a0sourced from Chikmagalur, the BR Hills and Coorg.<\/p>\n
Rajkumari Jayapalashri Anil, Founder, House of Berunda, told The Hindu<\/i>, \u201cMy mother used to tell me about waking as a child to the smell of fresh coffee, watching her father savour his morning cup. Coffee, in our family, was never just a drink \u2014 it connected generations. So Berunda Coffee\u00a0is a continuation of something that began at our family table, long before I was born.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Ms. Anil, the granddaughter of Jayachamraja Wadiyar, more\u00a0coffee variants are on the anvil. Sustainability would be non-negotiable, from shade-grown sourcing to sun-dried processing with a\u00a0promise to bring more women into the story at every step, from estate, to roastery to leadership level, she said.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the occasion, M.J. Dinesh, Chairman, Coffee Board said, although Karnataka led the country accounting for around 70% of coffee production, the domestic consumption of coffee was way too low at 70 gram per person a year while it was almost 12 to 15 kilograms in some of the European countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndia\u2019s coffee story has tremendous scope to grow bigger and better and for that our domestic consumption should grow substantially,\u2019\u2019 Coffee Board Chairman added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Published – July 04, 2026 12:04 am IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thehindu.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (From Left) Dmitrii Kurbatov – Head of Marketing and Public Relations , Rajkumari Jayapalashri Anil, Founder, House of Berunda, Dhushyant Anil, Founding Member and M.J Dinesh ,Chairman, Coffee Board, at the launch of Berunda Coffee from Mysore Royal Family here on Friday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The erstwhile Mysore royal family forayed into coffee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2486960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[419867,489670,333490,419871,489669],"class_list":["post-2486959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bengaluru","tag-berunda-coffee","tag-coffee","tag-karnataka","tag-mysore-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Erstwhile-Mysore-royal-family-forays-into-specialty-coffee-unveils-Berunda.JPEG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486961,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486959\/revisions\/2486961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}