Yemen Asrar Haraz Microlot – Roasted Coffee

Taste & Crema

Yemen Asrar Haraz will win you over with its balanced and full flavor that reflects chocolate, cocoa, and tropical fruits. An experienced coffee lover will recognize papaya and pineapple, but also traces of grains. The acidity is medium, and the aroma is sweet and fruity. Being 100% arabica, this coffee produces a crema that is smooth, low and compact.

Origins

First of all, it should be noted that Yemen Asrar Haraz is a microlot from the Yemen Jabal Haraz mountains. It is their climate and soil conditions that shape the taste of this rare coffee. The area of western Yemen is, and has been, strategically important to the people there. The mountains, dotted with fortified villages, were able to provide the war-torn people with at least some security and space to grow millet, lentils, and coffee. The imposing architecture of some of the forts is breathtaking to tourists from around the world.

Yemen, however, is not just a land of spectacular scenery. It is also a region of unrest, uprisings, revolutions, and tribal warfare. The poverty-stricken, famine-ridden country faces a protracted political crisis.

But back to the coffee. It was first discovered and purposefully cultivated in what is now Ethiopia, but it was the Yemeni port city of Mocha (Moka) that gave the fragrant fruit its name. To this day, there are disputes about where coffee comes from. Some sources claim that coffee plants were discovered in Ethiopia, but the beverage was created in Yemen. It was from their port that coffee sailed out into the world. Yemen was very protective of its precious and sought-after commodity, and it took Dutch traders quite a long time to plant coffee outside Yemen, in Java. The combination of the name Mocha and Java later gave rise to one of the oldest and most famous coffee blends ever: Mocha Java.

As mentioned earlier, coffee is grown in the mountains of Yemen by local farmers. The inaccessible areas and the political situation make it impossible for them to use industrially produced fertilizers and treatment products. But apparently, the organic quality of the coffee is also due to the love and respect for pure nature. The perfectly ripe fruits of the coffee plants are harvested and processed exclusively by hand. The farmers even say, ''You have to take care of the coffee like you take care of your child.'' They dry the ripe fruit in the sun and spread out on large terraces. When dried, they are stripped of their skins between the millstones. The so-called dry processing method is reflected in the unique flavor of each cup of coffee.

Yemen exports 12 tonnes of coffee a year.

Coffee packaging preview

Our quality aluminum packaging lacks any bold graphics, as we’d rather focus on the taste of our coffee. It always comes fresh thanks to degassing valve, which releases the gases that occur after roasting. Thanks to the hermetic seal, this container helps the contents further keep their freshness and protect them against humidity, light or foreign odors.