Yemen Mocca Hayma Al-Roowad

TIP: You can save products to your favorites list if you log in Yemen Mocca Hayma Al-Roowad natural process..quite a mouthful, literally and figuratively. Over the last few years…between persistent drought and a military campaign against its people..t's half-miraculous that any coffee has made it out of the country. Yemen's highly mountainous growing regions and primitive/ancient infrastructure make farming…generally on terraced hills…challenging to say the least. Scarcity of all manner of coffee, let alone food,persists around Sana'a. Farmers have been producing coffee here for many centuries, and Mocca (or Mokha), the principal Red Sea port, has been an important strategic and trading site for millennia.
Yemeni coffee might be the world's most complex…small, dense beans from indigenous, heirloom cultivars hold complex chemistry within. Our Hayma Al-Roowad is from a small lot and represents a major push from cultivators, paired with patient and ambitiously altruistic importers, to increase overall quality in growing, selecting and processing the ripe cherry. Most coffee in Yemen is brought to dry to the rooftops of houses in the community…quite a sight from above!
We chose the middle ground in this roast to offer more of the spectacular black cherry/chocolate/pineapple notes than would appear in a darker roast. Yemeni coffee is one of the few on the planet which retains character…some might say enhances it…in dark roasts. The hints of anise normally found in a darker roast are also present. Really special! Drip or espresso, with dense layering of flavor in both preparations!