Al Mokha: The World's First Coffee. Yemen Medium Roast (whole bean)

Great tasting coffee

I didn't like this coffee the first time I tried it. I ground some beans and expressed it. It tasted weak. I put it aside for a awhile and came back to it a couple weeks later and tried it again. Same result, but I noticed the grounds were pretty coarse for espresso, and it was on the finest grind setting on my burr grinder. I then tried the remained grounds (5 1/2 tbs) in my aeropress, suspecting that my low-end burr grinder wasn't grinding finely enough. Sure enough, I pressed out some of the most delicious coffee I have ever had...maybe the best! It was just incredible!I went back and ground some coarser for my French press, and made some that way, steeping the grounds for 7 minutes. It was very smooth, tasty, but not as strong. It was good, but not as good as with the finer grind in the aeropress with a 45 second or so steep time. I think this is great coffee, but be aware to get the best flavor you may need to play with brew methods, grind, and steep times, don't just try one method and think that it can't be any better if it isn't delicious. I'm going to get a better grinder to grind to true espresso standards and revisit that method, though my method of choice for this coffee appears to have become aeropress. It was just awesome!

Let me start by saying I don’t have the most sensitive taste buds. I recently ordered a 50 dollar bottle of soy sauce on Amazon and I didn’t taste a 50 dollar difference from the 6 dollar Kikoman soy sauce. Same with this coffee. It just tastes like the average price coffee that is much cheaper to buy. I tried making it drip brew, I tried French press, pour over, and I just don’t get a 3 dollar an ounce flavor from this coffee compared to like the .34 cents an ounce Folgers coffee. This coffee is like 10 times the price of Foldgers. Oh well. Like the soy sauce, I had to try this coffee once. But never again.

Good coffee, heard about it on Public Radio. It is the result of years of effort to b ring this to the US market, providing income for a poor society and helping them to resist extremists in their country. The story is that coffee originated first in Yemen and this is that coffee (or similar) and it has been highly rated by blind taste testing organizations. It is very good indeed, I personally prefer a darker roast but this is very good and worth getting, and it helps the people of a country in a significant way. If you like coffee, worth trying. I got it in whole beans, which is more stable than ground coffee.

Love the aroma. So comforting and Delish

One of my favorite medium roasts. I tend to like middle-eastern grown coffee, and this might be my favorite.

After multiple orders, my experience is that there is very little quality control. Was good once or twice, but other times under roasted or over roasted. And last time it was undrinkable. To charge such premium prices,a seller must deliver high quality consistently. It does not work if half the time the coffee is actually poor or undrinkable. Then, the buyer is being expected to play coffee roulette and to effectively pay $50 a pound or more for coffee that can be consumed. GREAT marketing, but.....

I'm on a hunt for coffee with chocolate notes. Big chocolate notes. The last coffee I got before this- with big chocolate notes- was Guatamalan Huehuetenango. This Yemeni coffee is twice as chocolaty as that, if not three times as much. It literally tastes like a chocolate dessert drink. I brewed with an automatic espresso machine and even on the cheap Delonghi - huge flavors from this coffee. Milk chocolateIt literally tastes like a cafe mocha if old Cadbury made it. It really is unbelievable. After each sip I am blown away by how deep and complex the flavor is. You can taste the Yemeni soil in the background of the overt chocolate notes.I didnt mean to spend 30 bucks on 12 oz of coffee beans but damn. This may be, hands down, one of the best coffees I have ever had.