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Hassan Assalol - Natural Sundried — supplied coffee image 1
Hassan Assalol - Natural Sundried — supplied coffee image 2
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Hassan Assalol - Natural Sundried; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Hassan Assalol - Natural Sundried; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇾🇪Yemen · Eastern Haraz

Hassan Assalol - Natural Sundried

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsYemenEastern HarazNaturalLight roastRoseArabicaSingle originSpecialtyHassan AssalolCounter Culture CoffeeIndependent
🇾🇪YemenNaturalField BlendLight roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇾🇪Yemen
Region
Eastern Haraz
Town
—
Farm / Station
Hassan Assalol
Farmer / Producer
Hassan Assalol
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Field Blend
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
fruit punch, cardamom, rose
Fermentation
—
Drying
Whole cherries sun-dried
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • farm idThe exact product source names Hassan Assalol and Eastern Haraz but does not disclose a farm name.
  • altitude mThe source gives a 1,900 to 2,200 meter range, not one defensible point value for the schema's single-number field.
  • brew recommendationNo exact-release brewing recipe was published on the verified product page.
  • bag size gCounter Culture’s current out-of-stock page does not expose a consumer package weight.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Hassan Assalol - Natural Sundried
  2. 02
    The brand
    Counter Culture Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Counter Culture Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Field Blend
  5. 05
    The farm
    Hassan Assalol
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Hassan Assalol
  7. 07
    The region
    Eastern Haraz
  8. 08
    The country
    🇾🇪Yemen
From the producer

Hassan Assalol farms in Eastern Haraz and has sold coffee to Counter Culture through Yemen-based export partner Mokha Story since 2018.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee highlights this lot as a single-farmer offering that showcases the rich history and unique cup profile of Yemeni coffee, which remains a rarity in the global market.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This lot documents a long-running direct purchasing relationship in a difficult export environment and presents two Yemeni cultivars through traditional natural sundried processing.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Picked

Coffee cherries were carefully selected at harvest.

02
Dried whole

The cherries were naturally sun-dried with the fruit intact around the seed.

What was added?

No flavoring ingredients are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

The roaster states that its tasting notes are sensory descriptors and that no flavoring agents are added.

Why it matters

Whole-cherry drying suits the region's limited water supply and can build dense fruit, spice and floral aromatics.

What you might taste

Fruit punch, cardamom and rose, according to Counter Culture.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/hassan-assalol-natural-sundried
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-10) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Roaster, retailer, and database references were excluded. An older independent discussion appears to concern a prior crop and was excluded because the exact 2025 harvest identity could not be verified.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Hassan Assalol →Meet the farmer: Hassan Assalol →
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