The origin of the name of Yemeni mocha coffee the relationship between Yemeni mocha beans and Italian mocha coffee

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Traditionally, the best beans for Yemeni coffee come from Mattari, followed by Sharki, followed by Sanani, which are low in caffeine. The shape of mocha beans is similar to that of Ethiopian Harrar beans. It has small particles, high acidity and a strange and indescribable spicy flavor. If you taste it carefully, you can tell a little chocolate.

Deep-roasted Yemeni coffee is often as bitter and sweet as chocolate, so the attempt to add chocolate to coffee is a natural process of development, affecting today's fancy coffee seasoned with chocolate sauce is also known as the word "mocha".

Yemeni coffee mocha taste is complex and changeable, for coffee roasters, how to bake out the best flavor of Yemeni mocha is a big challenge! Medium and shallow roasting shows sweet fruit, mild, warm sun-fermented flavor; deep roasting shows a rich red wine, bitter sweet chocolate finish.

Flavor: exotic, slightly alcoholic, spicy, different

Suggested baking method: medium baking

Score: excellent ★★★

Fancy Coffee | Cafe Mocha mocha

Mocha coffee (also known as mocha or mocha, also translated as Arabian premium coffee, English cafe Mocha, meaning chocolate coffee) is a variant of Italian latte (Cafe Latt é). It is one of the oldest coffee, its history can be traced back to the origin of coffee.

The name Mocha Coffee comes from Mocha, a small town on the Red Sea in Yemen. This place monopolized the export of coffee in the 15th century, which had a particular impact on the coffee trade sold to the Arabian Peninsula.

Like the classic Italian latte, it is usually made of 1/3 Caff è Espresso and 2/3 foam, but it also adds a small amount of chocolate. Chocolate is usually added in the form of chocolate syrup, but some coffee selling systems are replaced by instant chocolate powder. Sometimes, whipped cream, cocoa powder, and cotton candy are added to add to the aroma of the coffee and as a decoration.

Unlike the Italian Cappuccino, there is no milk foam on the mocha. Instead, mocha coffee is usually topped with whipped cream and cinnamon or cocoa powder as a decoration and flavor. Another simple way is to pull flowers with chocolate sauce.

In addition to white mocha, there are some variants that are mixed with two chocolate syrup, sometimes called "Zebras" and sometimes comically called "tuxedo mocha" (Tuxedo Mocha). In some parts of Europe and the Middle East, Moccaccino is used to describe Italian lattes with cocoa or chocolate. In the United States, mocaccio refers to Italian cappuccino with chocolate.

It can be said that mocha coffee is one of the most fancy espresso, its unique chocolate aftertaste is repeated, it can be described as: "the aftertaste is lingering for three days."

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