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🇾🇪Yemen · Hayma Dakhiliya

YEMEN ALCHEMY

Roasted by The BarnRoaster's website

EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS

TagsYemen Hayma Dakhiliya Yemenia Mango Plum Pineapple Cherry Arabica Single origin Qima The Barn Smallholder collective lot

🇾🇪YemenYemenia

Brand

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Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇾🇪Yemen

Region

Hayma Dakhiliya

Town

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Farm / Station

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Farmer / Producer

Qima

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Yemenia

Process

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Roast

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Tasting notes

Mango, Plum, Baked pineapple, Bubblegum, Dried fruit, Baklava, Cognac, Amarena cherry

Fermentation

Alchemy XI: 12 hours of aerobic fermentation; 48–72 hours in carbon-dioxide-flushed stainless-steel tanks under carbonic maceration; then 48 hours in deeper layers on shaded raised beds to create semi-anaerobic conditions.

Drying

Slow-dried on traditional raised African beds for about 600 hours (approximately 25 days), then milled and hand-sorted at Qima’s facility.

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

farmThe exact product page does not identify the farm or individual grower.
harvestNo harvest month or year is published for this release.
roast levelThe exact release does not provide a conventional light/medium/dark roast label.

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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.

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The name on the bag
YEMEN ALCHEMY
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
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The roaster
The Barn
Documented
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The variety
Yemenia
Documented
05
The farm
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
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The farmer
Qima
Documented
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The region
Hayma Dakhiliya
Documented
08
The country
🇾🇪Yemen
Documented

From the producer

Qima developed and executed the Alchemy XI protocol and handled final milling and hand sorting. The exact product page does not identify the individual grower or farm.

From the roaster

A Taste Of Alchemy At 2200m, the breathtaking landscape of Hayma Dakhiliya is home to a unique varietal of coffee: Yemenia. Following multi-stage 'Alchemy' processing, Yemenia offers complexity that is truly unique: expect tropical sweetness, with the depth of fine cognac and Amarena cherries.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Alchemy XI is not a vague marketing label on this release. The roaster publishes three controlled fermentation stages and an approximately 25-day drying protocol designed to amplify fruit complexity while retaining Yemenia’s genetic and terroir expression.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Aerobic start

Fresh cherries underwent 12 hours of aerobic fermentation in a well-ventilated environment.

Carbonic maceration

Cherries were sealed in stainless-steel tanks, flushed with carbon dioxide, and fermented for 48–72 hours.

Semi-anaerobic conditioning

The lot spent 48 hours in deeper layers on shaded raised beds.

Extended drying

Coffee dried on traditional raised African beds for about 600 hours, then was milled and hand-sorted at Qima’s facility.

What was added?

Carbon dioxide was used to establish the carbonic-maceration environment; no fruit, spices, flavorings, or other taste additives are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

No individual farm, grower, harvest date, or conventional roast level is published.

Why it matters

The page now separates the documented fermentation and drying stages instead of calling the process undisclosed.

What you might taste

Mango, plum, baked pineapple, bubblegum, dried fruit, baklava, cognac, and Amarena cherry.

Sources for these process claims

· https://thebarn.de/products/yemen-alchemy

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 2026-10-26) 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

Independent Yemen Alchemy reviews were excluded because they describe earlier 2,300 m Bait Alal lots and different processing schedules. They cannot be safely attributed to this 2,200 m Hayma Dakhiliya release.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farmer: Qima →

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