Having drunk so many coffee beans from so many countries and regions, if I say have you ever drunk coffee from Yemen? Probably many people will be full of question marks, does Yemen also produce beans? Where is Yemen? ...... So we think that when we talk about the countries in the world that are most related to coffee, we don't think about Yemen, but coffee and yemen's history are closely related. Yemen is one of the first coffee growers in the world, located at the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering Saudi Arabia and Oman, bordering the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. Yemeni coffee varieties are mainly divided into three types: Udaini, Dawairi, Tufahi.
Yemeni coffee is said to have been drunk as a drink for the first time in 1450, and local Sufi adherents drink the drink to help them stay awake through all-night prayers and meditations. As a believer in Islam, through regular pilgrimages to Mecca, Yemen's pilgrims also spread coffee to other parts of the world, eventually reaching Istanbul in the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which is the location of the world's first café, and even coffee saplings in Indonesia and Brazil originated in Yemen as early as possible.
So some friends may ask, why do we rarely drink coffee in countries with such a long history, or rarely see it for sale in cafes? Due to the impact of Yemen's war and environmental damage in the past years, it is more difficult to cultivate good quality coffee beans, and in recent years Yemen has been constantly developing and improving and optimizing coffee cultivation, which is increasingly beginning to appear on the stage of specialty coffee. Most of the Yemeni coffee beans are sun treatment, and now a small number of Yemeni beans will also take the carbon dioxide impregnation method, although it is a relatively rare and niche coffee on the market at present, but with the convenience of transportation in Yemen, the reduction of war, Yemeni coffee has gradually entered the public's vision, so I also want to use today's sharing to talk to you about my experience of drinking Yemeni coffee.
This Yemeni coffee is produced in the Haladz region of Yemen, which is 2300 meters above sea level, which is one of the largest production areas in Yemen, where the distinctive terraces run through the rugged mountains. Belonging to the traditional sun treatment method, the bean species is Udaini, which is what we have heard of as yemeni udini. Udayi is the most common and oldest variety in Yemen, and people say that Yemeni coffee has a unique and ancient wild flavor, but in fact, I think it is important not to demonize the flavor of beans, because beans can be interpreted by more than one flavor.
This bean is a medium roast, the bean grain is relatively small, the bean presents a distinct fruity aroma, the ground dry fragrance with a comprehensive berries and is still a very full of juice of the aroma, sour and sweet, at the same time through the nasal cavity after the rich smell will be because with some mellow thickness to appear that the fruit aroma has become a bit of preserved fruit after the sweet aroma.
The wet aroma after the beginning of the brew emits a fresh fruit tone, after the brewing is shaken to share the pot, smelled let me a little strange aroma, with a little bit of similar hibiscus flower taste, the entrance I think first slightly sour, but has been accompanied by a very bitter feeling, the body is really full ah, back to the sweet is great, the taste is very good, there is no miscellaneous taste, the mouth feels very rounded. After cooling, it will bring a little tea sensation (similar to the kind of Pu'er tea) and the afterglow is still great.
Yemen this bean when I wrote to share has basically drunk a pack of drinks, several times brewed down I think every time I can get the feeling is fruity notes, the entrance of slightly sour berry juice tone, and then immediately bitter mellow feeling, the most impressive or that more intoxicating body, because I still have a few times is with a metal filter to brew, in the absence of filter paper, the fat is greatly retained and let this Yemeni beans have a lot of super round lubricating feeling, and bitter alcohol accompanied by aroma, Overall, it still makes people feel that it is a more durable bean.
Honestly, Yemen's beans are not amazing, because they are not handled in too fancy way, and the beans themselves are more decent flavor expressions, but what do I think is good coffee? If the demon that comes out through "casual wear and plastic surgery" does not necessarily stand up to the scrutiny and freshness of your taste buds, right? On the contrary, as long as you like the taste of coffee, Yemen may never disappoint you, at least coffee is such a taste. Sweet and sour, bitter and flavorful, strong but not strong, mellow and delicious.