How to distinguish authentic blue mountain coffee beans?

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As we all know, Blue Mountain Coffee is famous all over the world. unlike other coffee, Blue Mountain Coffee has reached a perfect balance among sweet, sour and bitter tastes. It tastes completely without bitterness, but shows a moderate sour taste. Coupled with a more mellow flavor, Blue Mountain Coffee is favored by many coffee fans, is the second most expensive coffee in the world, and has a noble position in the coffee industry.

Why Blue Mountain Coffee has such a flavor? it starts from its growing environment. Generally speaking, south of the Tropic of Cancer and north of the Tropic of Cancer, this area is suitable for growing coffee, called the "coffee belt". Jamaica is just south of the Tropic of Cancer. The blue mountain is steep, the air is fresh, there is no pollution, it rains all the year round, and there is a great temperature difference between day and night, which has a unique and fertile new volcanic soil. Most importantly, every afternoon, clouds cover the whole mountain area, which not only shades the coffee trees naturally, but also brings abundant water vapor.

To become an aristocrat in coffee, it is far from enough to have high quality. The status of Blue Mountain Coffee today is also due to the local government's policy of limiting production and ensuring quality. Jamaica is not famous for Blue Mountain Coffee, regardless of the quality of mass production. But to give priority to quality, would rather sacrifice output, but also to protect the blue mountain coffee this gold-lettered signboard. Brazil, the world's largest coffee producer, produces 30 million bags (60kg each) of coffee a year, while Jamaica produces just over 40, 000 bags a year.

It is understood that Blue Mountain Coffee has the difference between top Blue Mountain Coffee and Blue Mountain Coffee beans. The top Blue Mountain Coffee beans generally do not enter the circulation market, and most of them have been booked by the royal family and tycoons. The Blue Mountain Coffee beans on the market are "Blue Mountain" brand coffee beans guaranteed by the Jamaican government. Statistics from the Coffee International website show that in 2003-2004, Jamaica produced 43000 bags of coffee, of which 24000 bags were exported. Nearly 90 per cent of exports go to Japan and the rest to Europe and the US. Because the output is limited and the export volume is not large, Blue Mountain coffee has been in short supply in the international market. As the saying goes, blue mountain coffee is expensive even in its place of origin, with a 4-ounce (114-gram) bag of blue mountain coffee selling for nearly $7 on the Jamaican market.

In the coffee industry, there has been a legend that "Blue Mountain Coffee is the best, though I don't know why". As an aristocrat in coffee, the unique flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee makes many people linger. If there is a chance, coffee fans must taste it.

Teach you to distinguish between real and fake Blue Mountain Coffee

[packaging]

Authentic Blue Mountain coffee packaging is calculated according to ounces and pounds. It is generally packaged as follows: 2ozpr 4ozpene 8oz (0.5 lb), 12ozpr 16oz (1 lb).

[appearance]

The raw beans of Blue Mountain Coffee are cyan, neat in shape, medium in size, slightly upwarped at both ends of the beans, expanded in volume after baking, and full and round in shape.

[ground beans]

The real blue mountain coffee bean grows at high altitude, and its cytoplasmic structure is relatively loose. It feels very crisp, cool and continuous when grinding by hand, and there is no feeling of resistance.

[taste]

The unique aroma of Blue Mountain Coffee cannot be reconciled with coffee from any other region. You can smell extremely strong aromas of fruit, chocolate and cream without opening the package. Those who have tasted Blue Mountain Coffee will know that the taste of Blue Mountain Coffee is very good. The palate is mellow and has a sweet aftertaste. No other coffee can taste like this.

Fake Blue Mountain Coffee

Because of the high price of Blue Mountain Coffee, counterfeiters are flocking to it. It is not difficult to imagine that many "ideas" come from Chinese. There are four most common types of fake Blue Mountain Coffee:

1. Colombia. Colombia is a kind of high-quality coffee, and the taste of this coffee is very close to that of Blue Mountain. The main difference is that Colombian fruit tastes more sour than the Blue Mountains; at the same time, some Colombian coffee has a hint of wood and the like. It's hard for people who don't drink coffee to tell the difference. Colombian coffee is called "the most cost-effective coffee" precisely because it is popular, but the price is not high. Therefore, the most common fake Blue Mountain coffee is Colombian coffee.

Cuba Blue Mountain Coffee. It's a pity to call Cuban Blue Mountain Coffee fake Blue Mountain. This coffee, formerly known as Cuban Crystal Mountain Coffee (Cuba Crystal Mountain), is also a kind of high-quality coffee. It's just that the popularity is not as high as Blue Mountain. Now some people in the country call Cuban Crystal Mountain coffee "Cuban Blue Mountain" in order to sell it at a high price.

3. Mix coffee. There is nothing wrong with blending coffee itself, and the quality of blending can reflect the level of processors. But it is wrong not to explain it to consumers. A cup of coffee with dozens of coffee beans, with several kinds of coffee blended into the rich flavor of the Blue Mountain, and reflected steadily in a cup of coffee, is almost an impossible task. Most of the so-called "Blue Mountain flavor" coffee is blended.

4. Yunnan "Blue Mountain" coffee. The quality of Yunnan coffee has improved rapidly in recent years, and more and more people begin to like Yunnan coffee. However, due to the limitations of natural conditions and immature planting technology, there is still a huge gap between the quality of coffee and "established stars" such as Blue Mountain. The taste of this fake blue mountain is very different from that of true blue mountain coffee. In addition to the poor balance of taste, miscellaneous smell is also very obvious. Coffee drinkers are easy to identify.

Through the concepts of packaging, appearance, grinding beans and taste, we should be able to distinguish what is the real Blue Mountain Coffee.