Cascara Qishir 🇾🇪 Yemen

You know coffee as a bean; this is the cherry that held it, skin and pulp dried on the mountain terraces of Yemen, which open up in hot water into dates, raisins, rose and mango.
In Yemen they call it qishir and have been drinking it this way for more than five hundred years.

Tasting profile

Cascara Qishir comes from the Al-Haimi farm in the Haraz region, near the village of Lehab, where coffee grows on mountain terraces between 1,800 and 2,100 metres. The cherries there are picked and processed by hand.
In the cup it is sweet and layered, with dates and raisins meeting rose, mango and honey inside an exotic floral fragrance. The body is light and the acidity low, so it drinks slowly, at the easy pace of a good tea. Cascara also keeps some of the cherry's caffeine, in amounts that vary from harvest to harvest.

Chosen by those who see themselves in…

The Dreamer and The Elegant Explorer
For people who want fragrance from a cup before strength, and who fall for flowers, honey and sweet fruit. They will find all of it here without any help from a roaster, because every note comes from the cherry itself. A cup to take slowly, with something new in every sip.

☕ How to brew it

Steep 6 to 8 g of cascara in 200 ml of water at 90 to 95 °C for 5 to 7 minutes, then strain. Drink it hot, or let it cool and pour it over ice on a summer afternoon, with a little honey if you like.

Contains caffeine. Not recommended for children or during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Technical details
Designation: coffee cherry pulp
Origin: Haraz, Yemen (Al-Haimi farm, near Lehab)
Altitude: 1,800 to 2,100 m
Processing: picked and processed by hand
Imported by: Warfair, with Yemen Journey
Size: 100 g

Tasting notes: date, raisin, rose, mango, honey, floral
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✨ The coffee, the story
In fifteenth century Yemen, as coffee was becoming a drink for the first time, people brewed the roasted beans and they also brewed qishir, made from the dried cherry. Yemen has never stopped making it, not even now, in a country torn by war.
This cascara comes to us from the terraces of Haraz through Warfair, a project that trades directly with small Yemeni farmers under the motto trade for peace. Every bag you open is part of that work carrying on.
Let it steep slowly and drink it knowing that Yemen is where coffee first became something to drink.