Jamaican coffee culture and introduction

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The flavor of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is characterized by the nutty flavor of dark chocolate, low acidity, mellow, soft and supple taste. So, what makes it have such a sense?

One, variety

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is one of the most famous island coffee in the world. The variety of Jamaican Blue Mountain is Typica. In fact, the flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee is very easy to recognize, which is the dark chocolate flavor unique to the very traditional classical Typica coffee. Not milk chocolate, but the dark chocolate flavor with a purity of more than 92, which is brought by the pure variety of Typica. Typica coffee is very resistant to leaf rust. Typica coffee, which was widely cultivated in Central and South America, has been constantly changed because of the spread of leaf rust. However, due to the geographical advantages of Jamaica, Typica is still the main variety here, and the incidence of leaf rust is very low.

Because Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, Blue Mountain Coffee does not have the advantage of high altitude, so it does not have the pleasant and bright acidity of Central American high-altitude coffee. Mild and low acid is its characteristic, although the soil of the Blue Mountains also belongs to volcanic rock soil. Because the altitude is not high, so the alcohol thickness of Blue Mountain Coffee is medium, we do not use mellow to describe Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, but mild mellow.

Second, the way of treatment.

Since the start of cultivation in Jamaica Blue Mountain, it has been treated with full washing. At this point, Jamaicans are so smart that they will never treat the fresh fruits of Blue Mountain Coffee in different ways, which also brings exquisite and supple sensory characteristics to Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. As we all know, Japan is the main consumer of Jamaica Blue Mountain, not because of its illustrious background, but because its low bitter, mellow and low sour taste is more in line with the Japanese sensory appeal for coffee.

Three, baking

CIB of Jamaica Coffee Industry Authority has strict and stubborn baking requirements for roasters who can use Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee logo, and the degree of roasting must be moderate, which was called City in the early years. When identifying roasters, Jamaican CIB officials repeatedly test the roasters' baking results, which shows that Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is not suitable for light roasting and is not allowed to be lightly roasted if it is used by the Jamaican official logo.

Not only the baking degree is strictly controlled, but CIB has its own operating rules at different stages of the coffee roasting process. No matter the time of dehydration, the time from Maillard reaction to explosion and the development time of explosion, there are also clear technical requirements. Today, it seems that these standards are not suitable for coffee with flower and fruit tonality as the theme, but Uncle Dou personally thinks that it is suitable for the raw bean characteristics of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. This is also done out of consideration of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee from variety to planting conditions.

Jamaica Blue Mountain New Coffee beans

The real Blue Mountain Coffee is one of the most advantageous coffee growing conditions in the world. The weather, geological structure and topography of Jamaica provide a unique ideal place. The ridge across Jamaica extends to the eastern part of the island, with the Blue Mountains rising to more than 2100 meters. The cool weather, foggy weather and frequent rainfall reconcile the rich land of Rain Water. Here people use mixed planting to grow coffee trees next to banana and avocado trees on terraces.

Some small estates also grow Blue Mountain Coffee, such as Wallenford Estate, Silver Hill Estate and Atlanta Estate in J.Martinez. Even the largest landowners in the region are small-scale growers by international standards, many of whom are small landowners whose families have been working on the land for two centuries. The coffee industry in Jamaica faces a series of problems, such as the impact of hurricanes, the increase in labor costs and the difficulty of mechanizing terraces. It is difficult to rationalize planting on many small estates and farms.

However, Blue Mountain Coffee is one of those coffee retailers that value credibility to stock some coffee no matter what. A leading British retailer said: regardless of the price, he will continue to sell Blue Mountain coffee all year round because he has many customers who only recognize "Blue Mountain".

Now, 90% of the post-harvest Blue Mountain coffee is bought by the Japanese. In 1992, Jamaica sold 688 tons of Blue Mountain coffee to Japan, 75 tons to the United States and 59 tons to Britain. Now that the rest of the world can only get 10% of the output of Blue Mountain coffee, regardless of the price, blue mountain coffee is always in short supply. In the UK, Langford Brothers Brothers has been the only supplier for many years. Later, the Edmunds Group (Edmonds Group) also received supplies from Jamaica's Salda Food Company (Salda Foods).

Langford Brothers Brothers is a licensed Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee brand.

The difference in transportation between Blue Mountain Coffee and other coffee is that it is transported in barrels with a capacity of 70 kilograms, a replica of Bonifieur barrels produced in Guadeloupe in the last century. The barrel was originally used to carry flour shipped from the United Kingdom to Jamaica, usually with a trademark and the name of the manufacturer. The Coffee Industry Council issues certificates for all authentic Jamaican coffee and bears a stamp of approval before export.

The Jamaican government used to insist that all Blue Mountain coffee is roasted in Jamaica to ensure that the quality remains the same. In fact, baking is a fine art, and it takes experience, training and expensive equipment to do a good job. From the consumer's point of view, coffee beans should be obtained and drunk immediately after baking. Coffee roasting in Jamaica is unlikely to meet this requirement. Now, raw coffee beans from Jamaica can be exported.