What are the characteristics of Mattarimoka beans in Yemen? What are the planting characteristics and types?

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What are the characteristics of Mattarimoka beans in Yemen? What are the planting characteristics and types?

The producing area is located in the Bani Mattar district west of the capital Sana'a. The variety is Matari (Arabica adzuki bean), which is an older Arabica species and should have been introduced from Ethiopia. The growth environment is in the desert oasis, irrigated with oasis water, and the natural environment is dry at the time of harvest (the dry period is the harvest season coincides with the coffee growth cycle). After harvest, the raw beans are put on the roof, treated in the sun, and the coffee beans are turned over regularly to ferment evenly. Due to the direct exposure to high temperature and sunlight outside, the fermentation process is also intense, but the low temperature at night will ease the fermentation process so that the coffee beans will not overfermentation. The next day the sun will wake up the coffee beans and let them continue to ferment.

The fermentation of the sun method is very intense, so it only takes about 3 days, and the internal fermentation of coffee beans tends to be static on the 3rd day. Sun exposure is the main reason why this coffee bean has obvious coffee beans, and there will be a strong mixed smell in the mouth.

Matari is the top mocha bean, the most famous national treasure coffee in Yemen. Floral and fruity, aroma rising and elegant, from smelling to sipping all stages full of red wine and high-grade chocolate flavor, quite unforgettable.

Speaking of Yemeni coffee immediately reminiscent of thick and wild sun-dried beans, Yemeni coffee farmers have been planting according to the ancient methods handed down by their ancestors, because Yemen's rugged terrain is not easy to grow and there is little rainfall. Therefore, Yemeni coffee farmers choose terraces or lowlands for planting, and choose areas that are not easily exposed to strong sun exposure, while most Yemeni farmers are poor and cannot use pesticides. Almost all of them are cultivated naturally and organically.