Taste and flavor characteristics of authentic coffee beans in Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee brewing temperature grindability

Blue Mountain Coffee, a well-known coffee bean, can be said to hear its name before it is heard. Everyone's understanding of Blue Mountain Coffee is mellow, balanced black coffee, is very expensive high-quality coffee, which has become the benchmark for many people to define coffee in the past. There are also a lot of blue mountain coffee beans or blue mountain coffee beans on the market, but none of them are blue mountain coffee.

The Blue Mountain one coffee beans on the front street are purchased from Clifton Manor, the oldest estate in Jamaica, designated by the National Coffee Bureau CIB, wooden barrels of raw beans and rainforest certified Blue Mountain coffee beans. In front of this article, let's talk about the authentic Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee.

Coffee producing area

The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of the island of Jamaica, hence its name because it is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. On clear days, the sun shines directly on the blue sea, and the peaks reflect the bright blue light of the sea. Blue Mountain is located in the coffee growing belt, with fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, foggy and rainy all the year round (the average precipitation is 1980 mm, the temperature is about 27 degrees). This climate has created the world-famous Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.

Designated Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee can only be grown in the Blue Mountain area, in Kingston, Jamaica is in the eastern north of the island. The ridge across Yatoujia extends to the east of the island, and the Blue Mountains are more than 2100 meters high. Here people use a mixed planting method to grow coffee trees next to banana trees and avocado trees on terraces. At the same time, the mountain is rugged (coffee trees are all planted on rugged slopes), and the picking process is so difficult that non-local skilled female workers are simply unable to do it. It is also important to choose ripe coffee beans that are just right when picking. Immaturity or ripeness will affect the quality of coffee.

Clifton Manor

The two Blue Mountain coffees currently on shelves on Front Street come from Clifton Farm, an ancient coffee producer in Jamaica that is still functioning today, and only Clifton Farm in Jamaica has a "tropical rain forest" certification. Clifton Farm began to grow and produce coffee as early as the mid-18th century (around 1750). The coffee planting and processing area here falls at an average of 4300 feet (1310.64 meters), with sufficient altitude, mild afternoon cloud shade, adequate sunshine and mineral-rich planting soil to provide good growth conditions for coffee plants. it also prolongs the ripening of coffee cherries.

What is rainforest certification?

Rainforest Alliance certification refers to a farm that meets the standards set by the Rainforest Alliance, which protects the farm and its surrounding ecosystems, restricts the use of pesticides, and evaluates benchmarks such as waste management. only coffee that has been evaluated and certified can be called "Rainforest Alliance certified coffee". Among them, the certification benchmark for coffee stipulates that the traditional farming methods cultivated in the shade of primary forests are beneficial to the protection of ecosystems. Some of the proceeds from the alliance are also used for the protection of wildlife in tropical rainforest animal reserves and the improvement of workers' living standards.

Coffee bean variety

The variety of Blue Mountain Coffee is Iron pickup. The top leaves of the iron pickup varieties are bronzed, the leaves are long and oval, the leaves are smooth, the tree is tall, the branches are slightly inclined, and the flavor is elegant, but the physique is weak, the disease resistance is poor, and the coffee yield of each tree is very low. The end of the coffee tree of the iron pickup variety has long branches and few branches, while the flowers are white and open at the base of the petiole connecting the branch. the ripe coffee fruit is bright red and looks like a cherry, and the bean body of the coffee bean is oval or thin.

Treatment of blue mountain coffee beans

Until 19 years ago, Blue Mountain Coffee at Clifton Farm had been washing raw coffee beans. During the treatment, first remove the peel and pulp and let it ferment for 12-18 hours, then put the fermented beans into the pool and pass them back and forth, using the friction of the beans and the power of running water to wash the coffee beans until smooth and clean. After washing, at this time, the coffee beans are still wrapped in the pericarp with a moisture content of 50%. They must be dried to reduce the moisture content to 12-14%, otherwise they will continue to be mellow, moldy and rotten. After that, the coffee beans are screened and stored in a special warehouse. Washing method ensures the characteristics of Blue Mountain Coffee-rich aroma, balanced taste, there will not be any outstanding or lack of flavor of the essence. In 1919, Clifton Farm broke through the original inherent model and used sun treatment for the first time. For Qianjie, this kind of sun-dried Blue Mountain coffee has changed the inherent flavor structure of Blue Mountain because it has changed the treatment method. Qianjie coffee will recommend washed coffee beans every time when introducing coffee beans to guests in a certain producing area, because washing can best represent the flavor of the producing area. Of course, Blue Mountain Coffee uses sun treatment, more or follow the development of the market.

How to distinguish authentic Blue Mountain Coffee?

CIB stipulates that only the blue mountain coffee beans produced in the producing area of Jamaica Blue Mountain more than 2200 feet can be called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. According to the bean size, the grades are NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and hand-selected PB. Among them, the basic standard of NO.1 Blue Mountain raw beans is beans with more than 17 mesh, defect rate less than 3%, moisture content about 13%, and so on. At present, the Jamaican coffee shop on the market can issue certificates for all exported Blue Mountain coffee.

There are three types of certificates:

(1) Certificate of quality issued by the Jamaican Coffee Agency

(2) the authorized sales certificate issued by the blue mountain coffee manufacturer.

(blue Mountain Coffee is distributed by 4 processing producers licensed by the Jamaican government and exported by 16 licensed exporters)

(3) Certificate of origin of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

The Blue Mountain of Qianjie Coffee is Blue Mountain Coffee, which is designated by the National Coffee Bureau, wooden barrels of raw beans and rainforest certified Blue Mountain Coffee beans.

Classification of Blue Mountain Coffee beans

Blue Mountain No. 1 Blue Mountain No. 1 beans: 96% of the coffee beans must be a screen size of 17 picks 18, no more than 2% of the defective beans.

Blue Mountain No. 2 Blue Mountain No. 2 beans: 96% of coffee beans must be sieve size 16, no more than 2% of defective beans.

Blue Mountain No. 3 Blue Mountain No. 3 beans: 96% of coffee beans must be sieve size 15, no more than 2% of defective beans.

Blue Mountain Peaberry blue mountain round beans: 96% of the coffee beans must be single round beans with a screen size of 10, and no more than 2% of the defective beans.

Blue Mountain Triage Blue Mountain mixed beans: the mixture of Lanshan 1jue 2jue 3 beans, with a small amount of slightly defective beans, but does not affect the quality of coffee cups.

Blue Mountain Fine Beans Blue Mountain Fine beans: coffee beans with a screen size of less than 15 and no more than 2% at most. This part of the beans are only sold in sample mode, and the price is determined by the state of demand.

Blue Mountain Triage Peaberry Blue Mountain mixed round beans: mixed blue mountain round beans, with a few slight defects, but the cup quality is very good, no more than 4% of the defective beans. The blue mountain coffee beans of Qianjie Coffee are those of Blue Mountain No.1. How to brew blue mountain coffee on Qianjie coffee? The difference of brewing flavor between sun-dried blue mountain coffee and water-washed blue mountain coffee.

Qianjie recommends using freshly roasted coffee beans for brewing, so that you can maximize the rich flavor of the coffee. The coffee beans shipped in Qianjie are all roasted within 5 days, because Qianjie is well aware that the freshness of coffee beans has a great impact on the flavor. The purpose of Qianjie roasting is "freshly roasted coffee", so that every guest who places an order is the freshest coffee when he receives it. The bean cultivation period of coffee is about 4-7 days, so when the guest gets it, it is the time when the flavor is the best.

KONO filter cups are used to brew Blue Mountain Coffee in the front street. KONO filter cup, because it can bring out a more round and mellow taste will be more direct. However, the exhaust effect of the KONO filter cup is relatively poor, because his ribs are straight and the depth is only 1/4 of the depth of the filter cup, except for the position of more than 1/4 to form an airtight state close to the cup wall. Will choose KONO filter cup, because the only exhaust part of this filter cup is in the 1/4 ribs, when the water level moves over the ribs, the amount of water in the filter cup continues to rise, increasing pressure through the weight of water, because the outlet is relatively small, it can extend the contact time between coffee particles and water for a longer time, as the current drives it to bring out soluble matter more effectively, which can generally achieve the thickness effect of high alcohol expected by guests.

Coffee powder: 15g

Ratio of powder to water: 1:13

Water temperature: 88-89 degrees

Degree of grinding: medium and coarse grinding (pass rate of No. 20 standard sieve 60%)

Qianjie segmented cooking technique: steaming 30 grams of water for 30 seconds, then slowly injecting 100 grams of water around the center of the small flow, that is, the electronic scale shows 130 grams. Then when the powder layer drops to 1 stroke, 65 grams of water is injected into 2 places, reaching a total of 195 grams of water. After all the coffee liquid of the filter cup flows into the next pot, remove the filter cup and end the extraction. The total cooking time is 1 minute and 50 seconds.

Comparison of flavor and taste of brewing blue mountain coffee

[sun Blue Mountain] the entrance has a sweet taste of brown sugar with sour berries, a nutty cocoa flavor in the middle and back, a creamy taste, rich and obvious layers, and a walnut aroma in the finish.

[washed Blue Mountain] the entrance has dark chocolate, nutty flavor, high cleanliness, very bright, good mellow thickness, sweet and sour balance.

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