Yemen

Producer: Ameen Ghaleb Al Duram

Country, Region: Yemen, Haraz

Variety: Jadi

Elevation: 2100 masl

Process: Natural

The Barn Berlin Coffee Roasters - May 2021 Release

If you want to taste what spicy refers to in a coffee or a distinct note of cedar this is the coffee for you. Yemeni coffees are still more rare than common in the specialty coffee world so seek out these when you can. This one starts with a spice and floral aromatic whiff as you begin sipping. It’s juicy like black grapes and sweet giving a lovely first impression. The flavor profile has notes of ginger candy, apricot acidity, cedar and nutmeg with a light molasses sweetness holding it all up. The mouthfeel is silky and full-bodied as you would expect for a natural process coffee. It is a supple, complex, very, very good coffee.

Yemeni coffee received a lot more attention in the specialty coffee world with the publication of the book “The Monk of Mokha” which is a very good read. Coffea arabica (the scientific name for the type of coffee prized by the specialty coffee industry) is a tribute to the fact that some of the first widely traded coffees were grown and exported out of the Port of Mokha on the Arabian peninsula. The name then is considered by many to be a misnomer because the natural evolutionary history of Coffea arabica was in Africa, not Arabia. Want to know more about the origin of coffee?