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Introduction to Yemen Mocha Coffee Bean Origins:

Yemen produces peaberry beans: these coffee beans are smaller and rounder than most coffee beans, looking like peas, and are sometimes called Mocha coffee beans. The shape of Mocha coffee beans is similar to Ethiopia's Harrar coffee beans - they are small in size, high in acidity, and mixed with a peculiar and indescribable spicy flavor. When tasted carefully, you can also discern a hint of chocolate flavor, making the attempt to add chocolate to coffee a natural development process.

In Yemen, coffee growers plant poplar trees to provide the necessary shade for coffee trees. As in the past, these trees are planted on steep terraces to maximize the use of limited rainfall and land resources. Besides Typica and Bourbon coffee trees, more than ten different coffee tree species native to Ethiopia are also cultivated in Yemen. Authentic "Mocha coffee beans" are only produced in the Republic of Yemen on the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, growing on steep mountain slopes at altitudes ranging from 3,000 to 8,000 feet, and are also the world's oldest cultivated coffee.

Yemen Mocha Varieties:

Mokha Mattari:

A prestigious market name for coffee from the Bani Mattar (also spelled Bany Mattar) province west of Yemen's capital Sana'a. It's high-altitude coffee, typically featuring good red wine aroma, dried fruit flavors, full body, and often shows bittersweet chocolate notes when dark roasted. Quality Mattari beans are small in size, with green beans having a noticeable sweet wine fragrance and moderate fermented fruit flavor. Always stands out as a winner due to its more pronounced Yemeni style.

Mokha San'ani:

A broad market name for coffee from various growing areas west of Yemen's capital Sana'a. It's a blend from tens of thousands of small farms on the slopes near the capital San'a (left image: Yemen's capital Sana). The growing altitude is slightly lower than Mattari, generally with a lighter body than Mattari, lower acidity, but good fruit aroma, often having better fermented fruit and wild flavors than Mattari. Based on my experience, San'ani quality has varied greatly in recent years, with occasional inferior beans showing flat flavor, earthy taste, or excessive fermentation. Careful cupping selection is essential work for coffee merchants - absolutely no cutting corners allowed.

Mokha Ismaili:

One of the traditional ancient varieties, a market name for famous coffee from central Yemen, also described as a botanical classification of traditional Yemeni coffee with high beverage quality. Grown at very high altitudes above 6,500 feet, characterized by rounder bean shape and smaller size than Mattari, with full body and high complexity. Generally often outperforms Mattari. This is the least produced and most expensive Yemen Mocha (Yemen Mocha is already not cheap). Quality Mokha Ismaili is produced on the mountain slopes of the Hirazi region (though not as famous as Bani Matar, it's the region with the best local reputation in Yemen), with the highest altitude reaching 8,000 feet!

Mokha Rimi:

Produced in the Djebel Remi (also known as Raimi, Rayma) region, quality similar to San'ani. Mokha Rimi typically has slightly heavier fermentation, occasionally showing surprisingly rich raisin sweetness. When properly roasted, the coffee beans smell like opening a jar of rich jam.

Mokha Yafeh:

Produced in Yemen's southern Yafeh (also known as Yaffe) province, belonging to uncommon Yemen Mocha varieties. It's Yemen's only "southern flavor," with limited production, almost all exported to neighboring United Arab Emirates, rarely seen in the international specialty coffee market.

Arabian Mocha:

A single-origin coffee from the mountainous regions of Yemen on the southwestern Arabian Peninsula bordering the Red Sea. The world's best cultivated coffee, known for its high viscosity and special rich wine-like acidity.

Yemen Mocha achieves different styles due to different growing regions, just like MATTARI Mocha's chocolate and acidity, SANANI Mocha's wildness and fragrance.

Characteristics of Yemen Coffee:

Despite Yemen coffee's superior quality, smooth texture, and aromatic fragrance, there are shortcomings - quality cannot be consistently guaranteed, and the grading of its coffee beans is also uncertain. Traditionally, Yemen's best coffee beans come from Mattari, followed by Sharki, then Sanani. These coffee beans have low caffeine content. Dark-roasted Yemen coffee often shows chocolate-like bittersweet notes, influencing today's chocolate-flavored specialty coffees to also be labeled with "Mocha." Yemen coffee possesses the world's most unique, rich, and fascinating complex aromas: red wine fragrance, wild flavor, dried fruit, blueberry, grape, cinnamon, tobacco, sweet spices, woody notes, and even chocolate - you can see various adjectives used to describe Yemen Mocha. Just as Mocha has many meanings, its English spelling also varies: Moka, Moca, Mocca are all common spellings. On Yemen coffee sacks and documents, local spellings reach up to four types: "Mokha," "Makha," "Morkha," "Mukha" - all representing the same meaning.

Yemen Mocha has complex and varied flavors, making it a great challenge for coffee roasters to bring out its best characteristics! Light to medium roasts reveal fruit sweetness, gentle, warm sun-dried fermentation flavors; dark roasts showcase rich red wine aroma and bittersweet chocolate aftertaste.

Flavor: Exotic flavor, slightly wine-like, spicy and stimulating, distinctive, must-try

Recommended Roasting Method: Medium roast

Rating: ★★★: Excellent

Yemen Coffee Market:

Yemen's coffee is exported from December to April of the following year. A long-standing problem has been that coffee produced in the north is adulterated with inferior substances before being shipped from the southern port of Aden. Only coffee shipped from the port of Hodeida can be confirmed as truly produced in the north. Most of Yemen's coffee grows under natural conditions, mainly due to growers' lack of funds.

Yemen Mocha Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations:

FrontStreet Coffee's roasted Yemen Mocha coffee beans guarantee both brand and quality. More importantly, they offer excellent value - each 227-gram package costs only about 85 RMB. Calculating at 15 grams of coffee beans per cup, one package can make 15 cups, with each cup costing only about 6 RMB. Compared to cafes selling coffee for tens of RMB per cup, this is truly a conscientious recommendation.

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