Yemeni Mocha

Flavor Characteristics (see Coffee Taste Terms):

• Complexity: Complex and balanced
• Acidity: High
• Body: Medium-heavy, like whole milk
• Aroma: Floral

Facts about Yemeni Mocha coffee

• Fact: The most popular and common coffee from this country is Yemen Mocha, one of two parts in the infamous Mocha Java blend.
• Region: south of Saudi Arabia, east of Ethiopia
• Main growing areas: central mountains of Yemen
• Yemeni Mocha Coffee Name: This coffee comes with the most general confusion in name. The Mocha in Yemeni Mocha coffee makes reference to the old port of Mocha from which this country's coffee and neighboring Ethiopia's coffee was first exported to the world. Unlike most coffees of the world, Mocha does not make reference to the part of Yemen where the beans are grown. Rather, it is the name of a now-defunct trading port through which coffee became known to the world. Complicating this otherwise simple misunderstanding is how the word 'mocha' has become synonamous with chocolate over the years. The Yemeni Mocha coffee has nothing to do with chocolate, whereas a Cafe Mocha or Mocha Coffee or Mochachino is used to describe the mixture of coffee and chocolate. Learn more about making cafe mocha by clicking here.
• Over the history of coffee, likely the first blend of beans and what is now the world's most popular blend is the Mocha Java coffee, making reference to two different beans - the Yemeni Mocha bean and the Indonesian Java bean. For many, this is the perfectly balanced blend as it combines very wide-ranging coffee flavors but captured in a balance so that they complement each other. Yemeni Mocha's contribution to this blend is of the 'stronger' flavors...by itself, it is a very bold cup of coffee.

If you like Yemeni Mocha coffee, you might like...

• Kenyan coffee: Both of these coffees feature very bold and complex flavors with a high acidity. Yemeni coffee is generally thicker in body than Kenyan coffee, and has a floral aroma that you won't find in Kenyan coffee.
• Guatemalan coffee: This is another bold cup of coffee very similar to Yemeni coffee. Both are complex in flavor, high in acidity, medium-heavy in body, and with floral aroma. Guatemalan coffee is generally a touch spicier than Yemeni coffee, which I can only describe as a 'serious' cup of coffee.

Yemeni Mocha coffee is available at:

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