The story of the origin of Yemeni mocha beans what is the price of Yemeni mocha coffee?

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Coffee world's only surviving monument: yemeni mocha!

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When it comes to Yemeni coffee, one must mention "mocha." We have all heard of mocha coffee. What exactly is mocha?

There are many answers to this question. Some people say mocha is a certain place of origin, and some people have the impression that mocha is sweet chocolate coffee. In fact, authentic mocha coffee is grown only in Yemen, southwest of the Arabian Peninsula, on steep mountain sides at altitudes of 3,000 to 8,000 feet, and is the oldest coffee in the world.

Yemen has been producing coffee in the ancient way for more than 500 years. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the first batch of Yemeni coffee sold to Europe was exported through the ancient small port of Mocha Port, which surprised Europeans and called the delicious coffee shipped from Mocha Port "Mocha Coffee", which is the origin of the name "Mocha Coffee".

Neighboring Ethiopia across the Red Sea also exports coffee through Mocha Port, so Ethiopian sun-cured coffee is often referred to as mocha. (Mocha-Ethiopia Harrar) Today, Mocha's old port has long been abandoned due to siltation (today's place name Al Makha), and it is exported from Hodeida port in the northwest. However, people have long been accustomed to the name of Mocha, and the name of Mocha is resounding in the sky.

Deep-roasted Yemeni coffee often exhibits a bitter, sweet flavor similar to chocolate, affecting today's fancy coffee flavored with chocolate sauce is also known as "mocha". So when you see the words "mocha coffee," it may mean pure Yemeni coffee, or neighboring Ethiopian coffee, or simply "fancy coffee with chocolate sauce." In any case, only real Yemeni coffee qualifies as mocha coffee for picky coffee drinkers.

The word mocha has many spellings: Moka, Moca, Mocca are all common spellings, and there are as many as four local spellings seen in sacks and documents of Yemeni coffee: Mokha, Makha, Morkha, Mukha, all of which mean the same thing.

Yemeni mocha is the originator of the world coffee trade and has contributed to the promotion of delicious coffee to the world. In the seventeenth century it was called Arabia (hence the name Arabica!). Yemeni mocha came across the ocean to Italy and other European Catholic countries. For more than 150 years, Yemeni coffee has been the only coffee producing area sold to Europe.

In ancient times, conservative catholic countries, extraordinary good things are often considered evil, once let coffee bear the inexplicable sin. It was not until the Vatican Pope, who also loved coffee, declared coffee a Catholic drink and blessed coffee drinkers that coffee began to spread widely in Europe. Although Ethiopia was the first country in the world to discover coffee, it was Yemen that allowed coffee to flourish.

Coffee World's Last Living Historic Site

Yemeni coffee farmers still produce coffee the same way they did 500 years ago. Coffee berries grow naturally on trees, without the use of artificial fertilizers or pesticides, and in summer they are watered by a small amount of rain and fog on the slopes, and in dry winter, mature coffee berries are allowed to hang on trees and dry naturally-a very unique and rare practice, because Arabia's extremely dry climate and intense sun allow this, and in other coffee producing areas, the same practice may cause coffee berries to rot on trees.

Ripe or dried coffee berries fall naturally from trees or are shaken or picked. Coffee farmers, who account for nearly a quarter of Yemen's population, sun their pulpy berries on rooftops, in front of huts, or even directly on dirt floors, exposed to harsh, dry winter sun. After the rind and pulp are dried, the beans are ground to remove the dried rind and pulp with an old-fashioned stone mill (two stones stacked one on top of the other).

There are still a few coffee farmers in Yemen who use animals (such as camels and donkeys) as a source of power for stone mills. Compared with Central and South American countries that use advanced machinery to process coffee beans in large quantities, or even neighboring Kenya with a short history of coffee, Yemen mocha is simply the only living monument in the coffee world! You know what? The Yemeni coffee you drink today is basically not much different from the Arabic coffee enjoyed by European aristocratic merchants hundreds of years ago in Venice, Italy, in San Marco Square, the oldest cafe in Europe.

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