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Know Your Coffee: Eastern Haraz, Sana’a, Yemen - Anaerobic + Natural
Maintaining coffee trees in a climate as harsh & uniquely challenging as yemen’s western & northern ranges requires the kind of proven techniques that only generations of farming can figure out. coffee farms are iconically terraced on arid, incredibly steep slopes. where irrigation is not available, bore holes are dug manually into rock to access individual water reserves for each tree whenever rain is scarce. density of coffee crops are about 1/6 compared with common farms in latin america - & these are just some of the many challenges that, by all accounts, should insist on an inevitable extinction of Yemen-grown coffee.
but the haraz people have been cultivating coffee for about 600 years - enjoying it for about 2 centuries before Europeans even knew what it was. today, the endurance of coffee cultivation is nothing short of a miracle. this nanolot of hand-selected cherry was processed in small installments, anaerobically fermented for 48-72 hours & dried on raised beds before being air shipped directly to the U.S.
a modernized approach from a culture of incredible people that have been cultivating these flavors for centuries - destined to sit magnanimously upon your coffee table.