Kahve Dünyası Mastic Turkish Coffee 250g Tin — 100% Arabica

Damla sakızlı Türk kahvesi — Turkish coffee scented with gum mastic — is what regulars order at Kahve Dünyası when plain Turkish coffee feels too familiar. This is the take-home version: 250 g of finely ground coffee in the brand's tall silver tin, the same blend sold in its shops across Turkey. Kahve Dünyası states the blend is made from 100% Arabica beans sourced from Brazil's Rio Minas region, roasted in-house — the chain produces everything it sells and works without outside vendors, a "producer to consumer" model it has kept since opening its first shop in Istanbul's Eminönü district in 2004. The mastic comes through as flavor layered over that Arabica base: a cool, faintly pine-like resin note that softens the coffee's bitterness rather than masking it. People who find straight Turkish coffee harsh often settle on the mastic version for exactly this reason — it drinks smoother. If you have tasted mastic in Turkish ice cream or lokum, you already know the flavor; here it sits behind the coffee instead of in front of it. The aroma is most noticeable while the cezve heats — mastic lifts off the foam before the first sip. Brew it like any Turkish coffee: one heaped teaspoon per demitasse cup of cold water, sugar added before heating if you take it sweet, brought slowly to a foam in a cezve and never boiled hard. The grind in the tin is already Turkish-fine — no grinder needed. Kahve Dünyası has grown from that single Eminönü shop into one of Turkey's most widespread coffee chains, with stores from Istanbul to London's Piccadilly Circus (opened November 2011). The lidded metal tin keeps the ground coffee fresh after opening and travels well — a practical pick if you are buying Turkish coffee as a gift.