Green Coffee

Try your hand at home roasting our Yemeni coffee.

• 15 oz / 425 grams of green coffee per package.

Recommended coffees: The Pearls of Al Qafr is a versatile coffee, which makes an especially intense dark roast. The Matari Region is straightforward and insanely delicious. The Farm Blend is excellent, rustic and traditional. And the Java Mountains is for a Mocha-Java blend.

Your green coffee options:

1. Pearls of Al Qafr: A versatile coffee that makes an especially rich and creamy dark roast, but also works well as a lighter roast, with aroma of yellow cake.
2. Pearls of the North: A classic Yemeni coffee, with lemony undertones. Sourced from Yemen's north, the Sa'dah Governorate (Khulani coffee varietal).
3. Rayyan Mill Blend: A restrained yet deeply flavorful coffee with notes of allspice and citrus. This is the in-house blend of the Rayyan Mill in Yemen. (Matari, Haraazi, Ishmaeli, and Hajjah origins.)
4. Matari Region: An awesome, easy drinking Yemen. It's smooth, mild, and pleasing, and great at ALL roast levels. From the Matari mountains region, the highest elevation in all of Yemen.
5. Farm Blend Regular: Traditional and rustic flavor profile with notes of cherry, cocoa, and citrus peels. A winey and tannic mouthfeel. (Haraaz Cooperative)
6. Java Mountains: A perfectly mild, nutty, earthy, and smooth Java, with which you can make a famed Mocha-Java blend. Sourced from the Preanger Mountains of West Java, Indonesia. This mountainous region is the original source for Java, starting in the 1720s.

If you want to learn more about these regions or these coffee mills (e.g. Haraaz Cooperative, Rayyan Mill, or Pearl of Tehama) visit our learn page.

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More information on the Haraaz Cooperative:

The Haraaz Cooperative™ is the name we use at Al Mokha to describe the fantastic work of Shabbir Ezzi. He has been operating in Yemen since 2006, and we have worked with him since 2014.

He sources his coffee from a combination of about 800 registered farmers (reserve quality) and also from trusted collectors more generally (regular quality).

For the registered farmers, Shabbir provides them with an ID, so he can directly ensure that they are paid fair wages and their hard work is rewarded. He even has an incentive program in place, where the more coffee you produce, the more you earn per pound. These growing wages (better than linear!) prove a strong incentive to work together and build relationships for the long term.

These are good principals but there is far more than that. In the eastern Haraaz Mountains where the cooperative is based, the economics of coffee have improved so much that farmers have chosen to uproot qat—a cash crop and mild narcotic plant—and replace it with coffee. This change reflects how farmers can make more money and live a more dignified life producing coffee. In fact, Shabbir has been so successful, that all the qat has been uprooted.

General Info: As a green coffee, understand that Yemen's is not the typical lot of consistent beans that are identical from shipping container to shipping container. Rather, Yemen's coffee lacks such aesthetic uniformity and instead has a beauty of its own: the beans are smaller and varied in size. This showcases their authenticity, old-world cultivation, and natural processing of 10 - 20 days drying in the sun after harvest.

The magic of Yemen is not the volume of consistent coffee over time but rather the story that each batch and each harvest tells. In Yemen there are 100,000 farmers producing on average 115 kg of coffee annually per farmer. These are backyard, terraced gardens on Yemen's steep mountain slopes. When you roast and enjoy this coffee you will inevitably appreciate and understand the incredible process that brought this coffee from farmer to your cup.

Bulk Free Coffee: For every 10 bags of green coffee get 1 bag for free. Write in cart notes what you want.

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