Welcome to the YEMEN COFFEE Journal.
This is not a typical coffee blog. You will not find latte art tutorials or reviews of the latest espresso machines. You will find something rarer: the truth.
Over the coming weeks and months, we will publish stories about:
- The Sufi mystics who invented coffee in 1450
- The Port of Mocha — the world’s first coffee monopoly
- The naval battles and spies that fought over Yemeni beans
- The King of England who arbitrated the first coffee trademark war
- The NYSE rejection of African Robusta
- The logical question: if Ethiopia had coffee, why Mocha?
We will also share recipes: how to brew Qishr (the original Yemeni beverage), how to spice your coffee with cardamom and ginger, and how to make the perfect cup of heirloom Yemeni coffee.
And we will introduce you to the farmers — the true founders of this industry — whose families have grown coffee on stone terraces for 500 years.
This is not a blog. It is a restoration.