What is Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee? Definition of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

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The Jamaican government has a very strict definition of Blue Mountain coffee: it must be grown in the Blue Mountain area of the Jamaica Coffee Authority (The Coffee Industry Board), processed by a government-authorized processing plant and certified by the government. Among them, for more than a dozen areas designated as very specific areas in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, there are only six government-designated processing (roasting) plants for Blue Mountain Coffee.

The Blue Mountains stretch northeast of Kingston, the capital of the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica. The island of Jamaica is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, when the sun shines brightly on the sea, and the distant mountains are shrouded in an ethereal blue atmosphere due to the refraction of the azure sea. It is said that the origin of the name Blue Mountain is that the British soldiers who had arrived in Jamaica could not help exclaiming, "look, the blue mountain!" when they saw the blue light shining on the peak. This is the Blue Mountain.

Most of the peaks of the Blue Mountains are more than 1800 meters above sea level, and the famous Blue Mountain Coffee grows in this area. As early as 1728, the British Governor in Jamaica, Sir Nicholas Strauss (Sir Nicolas Lawes), brought the first coffee seedlings to Jamaica from Martinique. By 1790, some coffee farmers among the refugees in exile from Haiti had settled in the Blue Mountains and brought coffee-growing technology here. In 1838, Jamaica abolished slavery, allowed freed slaves to cultivate their own land, and freed slaves moved to the mountains to grow coffee and exported it to England. These coffees became more and more popular in British society.

Today, the status of Blue Mountain Coffee in the coffee world is like the Rolls-Royce in cars, known as the "black jewel". People who love Blue Mountain Coffee are called "Coffee Beauty" who combines all the advantages of good coffee.

The planting and processing of Blue Mountain Coffee is also very elegant. There are strict and detailed regulations on seedlings, fertilizer use, harvesting, cleaning, fermentation, baking and packaging; harvesting is based on manual picking; and Jamaica is a country that so far uses traditional barrel packaging to transport raw coffee beans.