Yemen Sharqui Haraz

Sharqui Haraz, (which we've also referred to as "Harasi", and "Bani Haraz"), is a coffee from the sub district of Al Sharqui, adjacent to Ismaili, and in fact they merge to some degree. If you travel west on the road from the capital Sana'a, toward Hodeidah on the Red Sea, you will pass quite close to Haraz, as I did when traveling to Yemen a several years back. I visited an amazing zone within Haraz with towering, ancient stone villages, like castles precariously perched atop steep precipice. It was incredibly dramatic. All the coffee here is grown on terraces, since little land exists that is flat, except for the lowland deserts. The coffee is hauled up remarkably steep slopes, carried in small amounts, most often by donkey. This lot was secured through Fatoum Muslot, who took over the family coffee business started by her father back in the 1950s. They've long exported Yemeni coffee, and since Fatoum has started managing the operations, she has worked to implement quality-focused practices such as more stringent hand sorting and using Ecotact storage bags in order to directly affect their coffee's overall quality. Roughly 140 farmers are contributing to this regional blend, and the altitude of the farms hover around 2200 meters above sea level. We're quite pleased with the physical condition of both coffees we bought from Fatoum this year, and shipping in Ecotact has really helped with the long transit times from Yemen. Read our interview with Fatoum Mouslot from 2020.

*Note that while the beans are small 1(4 screen size), we did not have issues with them in the standard small-screen Behmor grid drum.