Asian Coffee Manor Yemeni mocha coffee beans have unique flavor and slightly alcoholic flavor.

Flavor characteristics: spicy and exciting, unique flavor, slightly alcoholic aroma.

When many people hear the name mocha coffee, they always think of the fancy coffee mixed with hot chocolate sold in cafes, but as a kind of individual coffee, "Yemeni mocha" has a unique charm and a long history.

Yemeni mocha is one of the oldest coffee in the world, but until recently, Yemeni mocha has come to be regarded as one of the best and most delicious coffee in the world. Because Yemen is located at the southernmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula, almost all Yemeni coffee and Arabica coffee are sometimes called mocha coffee, and sometimes Harald coffee produced in Ethiopia is also called mocha.

More than a hundred years ago, the entire coffee-producing countries in Central and East Africa did not export a lot of coffee. Yemeni mocha was one of the main export ports near the Red Sea at that time. Most of the coffee produced in Africa was first transported to the Yemeni port of Mocha and then exported to Europe. The name of mocha coffee comes from the port name of Yemen.

Yemen is the first country in the world to produce coffee on a large scale as a crop. Coffee was grown in Yemen around 525 AD and quickly spread, and Yemen has been a major supplier of coffee to Europe for the next two hundred years.

Yemen is a country with relatively high temperatures, especially the western coast near the Red Sea, which is hot and boring. The most suitable area for growing coffee in the country is the mountains of western Yemen, which is rugged with an elevation of more than 900 meters, so coffee farms are built at an altitude of 900 to 2000 meters above sea level. The shape of the Yemeni mocha beans is also different. the relatively dry soil and air make the coffee grown here smaller and harder than those grown elsewhere, and the raw beans have a pale green or yellow color. At the same time, it has a unique flavor.

In Yemen, coffee beans have been treated by sun-drying, so some people think that Yemeni mocha coffee will have a fishy smell. More interestingly, the dry climate in Yemen makes some coffee fruits become very dry and hard before they are picked, so it becomes natural to remove the peel and pulp of coffee by sun-drying. coffee farms in Yemen have homemade stone mills to remove the dried peel and pulp of coffee, and then pick out clean and full beans by hand.

Yemeni mocha coffee is a kind of coffee beans with high maturity, so it takes more time to roast than ordinary Arabica beans. Because mocha coffee is dried in a very natural way, the color of roasted mocha beans is not uniform, and there is a significant difference in color between beans and beans even if roasted at the same time. For Yemeni mocha coffee, the degree of roasting has a great impact on the flavor of the coffee, in deep roasting, the original wild fruit flavor will become stronger and stronger with the deepening of roasting, and the coffee bean flavor will be more mellow.

Some people say that in the coffee kingdom, Blue Mountain can be king and Mocha can be called queen. The Yemeni mocha is characterized by its fruity aroma, with obvious wine, spicy and chocolate flavors. Some people say that the aftertaste of the Yemeni mocha is very similar to that of blueberries, while others say it is the "wild flavor" peculiar to the Red Sea.

Source: Dangdang