Yemen - Mokha Peaberry

Tasting Notes

Middle roasts are interspersed with hints of pumpkin bread, hazelnut chocolate, sesame cookie, whole spices, burnt marshmallow, and aromatic wood.

Farm Notes

This peaberry coffee is a blend from four regions, Matari, Sharqui Haraz, Hajjah, and Hiwari. Peaberries occur naturally on every coffee tree, but in very small amounts (typically < 5% of the harvest). What happens is, one of two embryos inside the coffee cherry fails to germinate, leaving the other behind to take on a rounded shape as it matures. They tend to be separated out from the regular "flats" during the dry milling process where coffee is separated by size using large mechanized screen sorters. Altitude is extremely high in these areas, starting around 2000 meters and stretching upwards of 2400 meters above sea level. This is our first Yemeni coffee, not necessarily by choice, but mainly due to the difficulties exporting from a country at war. The situation there is still quite dire, and I'm amazed that anything is making it out of the country.