About Pre Order : Yemen Fawaz Ali - Mokha Haraz (Natural)
Please note this a pre order coffee, it will be roasted on Tuesday 13th May 2025 - your pre-order will ship shortly after this date. Any other products ordered at the same time may ship separately.
For our classic Yemeni Mokha coffees, we work directly with Abdulrahman Saeed and his Sabcomeed (“Mokha not Mocha”operation; a relationship that begun in 2019. Their primary aims are to promote and market the quality of Yemeni specialty coffee, to develop relationships between small coffee producers - within the distinct coffee growing regions - and roasters, to invest in processing and drying facilities, and to increase the income to these producers and communities.
Yemen is one of the most historical of all coffee producing origins, and has the advantage of very high, rugged altitudes, and heritage arabica varietals. Many of the coffees are sun-dried naturals, delivering fruity, chocolaty, full-bodied profiles. Haraz is traditionally one of the most famous sources of Yemeni coffee, producing “Mokha Haraz”, and being a mountainous region, with a particularly high altitude, between Sana’a and Al-Hudaydah.
This particular nano-lot from Fawaz Ali Wahab won a 2 Star Great Taste Award in the espresso category in 2022, and we’re all really proud of this partnership and achievement. The ripe coffee cherries were sun-dried on raised beds, with the support of the Sabcomeed team
How to brew
We normally lean toward filter brewing for the producer series as the method highlights the more complex and delicate flavours in lighter roasted coffee. As always, we default to the industry standard of 60g of coffee per litre of water as a starting point. For espresso try a 1:2.5 brew ratio and shot times of around 24-30 seconds.
Tasting notes
Ripe stone fruits, chocolate, red grape.
