How to identify authentic blue mountain coffee beans? Which is more popular, Rosa or Blue Mountain Coffee?

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Blue Mountain coffee is coffee brewed from coffee beans from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. It is divided into Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and Jamaica Alpine Coffee according to grades.

Pure imports of authentic blue mountain coffee beans roasted beans more than 1000 yuan 1 jin, coffee shop a cup of blue mountain coffee?? At around 100 yuan, a cup of a cup in a higher place is around 300 yuan.

Authentic Blue Mountain coffee beans taste rich and mellow, due to the coffee's sweet, sour, bitter three flavors perfectly matched, so completely without bitterness, only moderate acidity.

People will always pursue the best things, want to pursue the most mellow wine, taste the most charming cigar or the most noble champagne and so on, and coffee is the same, drink good coffee is happy, so people also began to pursue better coffee, from the former Jamaica Blue Mountain or Hawaii Kona to the most popular rose summer coffee, people have been pursuing the most distinctive and delicious coffee beans.

Jamaica Blue Mountain

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee in English. It used to be the most powerful in the competition field and bidding field. Its sour, bitter and sweet taste is very balanced and smooth. Because it is planted on the Blue Mountain Range of Jamaica, the top-level Blue Mountain Coffee can only be planted at an altitude of more than 2000 meters. The Blue Mountain Range is the highest mountain in the Caribbean Sea. Rich soil and high altitude climate bring special flavor to coffee here.

Some people say that Blue Mountain can maintain its balance no matter what temperature. Wallenford Estate, Mavis Bank Estate, Silver Hill Estate, Atlanta Estate, MOY HALL and GOLD CUP are famous estates of Blue Mountain Coffee.

History of Blue Mountain Coffee

The history of Jamaica coffee can be traced back to the 18th century. The British introduced coffee trees into Jamaica and planted coffee in the Blue Mountains, which are divided into high-altitude Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica Alpine Coffee and Jamaica Coffee. Different grades also determine different prices.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

(Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee), which is divided into four grades under Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee. From the top to the bottom of the quality points are: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and PB, PB is round beans. According to CIB standards, only coffee grown above 666 meters above sea level is called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee;

Jamaica Alpine Coffee

(Jamaica High Mountain Supreme Coffee Beans) The coffee produced in the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica below 666 meters is called alpine coffee, which is also the coffee second only to Blue Mountain coffee quality. It is called the brother variety of Blue Mountain coffee by industry insiders. Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee produces very little caffeine, so if you want to taste Jamaica coffee, then Jamaica alpine coffee is your best choice.

Jamaica Coffee

（Jamaica Prime Coffee Beans）。Coffee grown outside the Blue Mountains is called Jamaica coffee. It turns out that Chinese coffee industry generally has a wrong understanding that only coffee planted in the Blue Mountain area above 1800 meters above sea level can be called Blue Mountain Coffee. In fact, there is only one manor, Amber, on the mountain crown above 1800 meters above sea level. It is descended from Chinese people. The manor's main surname is Lyn (Lin). Its ancestral home is Guangdong, China. The manor has only 30 hectares of land and its yield is very small. Blue Mountain coffee is mainly distributed in the Blue Mountains John Crow, St. John's Peak, Mossman's Peak, High Peak, Blue Mountian Peak and other five mountain areas.

Coffee (Geisha Coffee, Geisha)

Guixia Coffee, English is Geisha Coffee, because transliteration and Japanese geisha the same, and has the name of geisha coffee, but many baristas do not like such a title, they think this coffee should not have the impression of Japanese geisha exist, so more and more people use the Chinese name Guixia, literally more beautiful.

The Prince of Alien: Taking Root and Being King Again

Café de Rosedale was celebrated on his estate in Panama, but he was the story of an alien prince who succeeded in becoming the new king. The rosewood coffee tree was discovered in Ethiopia and later transferred by the Coffee Research Institute in Kenya to many African countries such as Uganda and Tanzania, where it was not valued but used for research.

Later, after someone introduced rose summer coffee to Costa Rica, through Don Pachi Manor, rose summer coffee was brought to Panama. Each manor could see some rose summer trees, because they were used as windbreaks for coffee trees. Yes, you read it correctly. The yield of rose summer trees was not stable, and they were often mixed with ordinary coffee beans. It was not a major coffee bean project. It wasn't until around the 21st century that some estates discovered that the taste of rose summer was actually very delicious, and they were not sure whether this taste would appeal to the discerning coffee lover.

The winning general of coffee.

In 2003 Rose Summer won the first place in the Best Panama for the first time, produced by the famous Emerald Manor. Many baristas marveled after drinking Rose Summer for the first time. There was a feeling of Cinderella story. The otherwise insignificant windbreak tree turned into a star coffee tree. In the next ten years until today, Rose Summer is still the first choice in all major cup tests and coffee competitions, and also compares Blue Mountain and Kona two star coffee beans at one stroke, becoming the mainstream of fine products in the market.

root-seeking journey

As mentioned above, Rose was discovered in Ethiopia, so nature inspired many people to explore the roots of Rose. Willem Boot, founder of La Mula Mule Manor, and Joseph Brodsky, founder of Ninety Plus, both did this, but there was no special harvest. Nature is so wonderful. There are people growing rose summer coffee all over the world, even in China Taiwan, but the flavor is not as amazing as Panama's, but it is also very excellent coffee beans. I believe that each coffee variety has the most suitable temperature, soil, climate and other factors. It is a daydream to easily copy the taste buds of coffee.

Blue Mountains of Jamaica

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Panama rose summer

Today's two protagonists, one is "sour, sweet, mellow, bitter, perfect" Jamaica Blue Mountain, one is "fruit bomb, mouth explodes" Panama rose summer. So what's the difference in flavor between Jamaica Blue Mountain and Panama Rose Summer?

Today, let's do a comparative cup test to measure the performance of the two coffee industry "big coffee" and see which one is more delicious and better to drink! "Bean" is willful!

approach

Blue Mountains of Jamaica:

Complete washing:

Use washing and fermentation methods to remove the peel pulp and mucous membrane, using washing method farms must build washing tanks, and can introduce a continuous flow of fresh water. When processing, it is to put the beans into the pool, move back and forth, and use the friction of beans and the power of running water to wash the coffee beans to smooth and clean.

After washing, coffee beans are still wrapped in the endocarp at a moisture content of 50%, and must be dried to reduce the moisture content to 12%, otherwise they will continue to mellow and rot.

The better treatment is to use sunlight drying, although it takes 1 - 3 weeks, but the flavor is excellent and quite popular.

Blue Mountain: Iron Pickup Species

Panama Summer:

Natural/Dried-in-the-Fruit:

The fruit begins the sun drying process without treatment after picking. This is the oldest treatment in existence. The drying process usually lasts about 4 weeks. The treatment must be very careful to ensure that the coffee does not lose any flavor. The natural sun method requires an extremely dry local climate, and the fruits must be hand-picked to ensure that the defect rate is not too high.

Panama: summer seed

Coffee Bean Appearance

Raw beans:

Jamaica Blue Mountain raw beans are green, beans round and slightly smaller, the overall particle size uniform;

Panama sun rose summer beans are yellow-green, beans long and pointed, the overall particle size is more uniform but not as good as blue mountain.

Cooked beans:

Jamaica Blue Mountain has a deep baking degree, but there are still a lot of silver skins.

Panama sun rose summer silver skin is less. The difference in size between the two has been reduced.

Start cup test

Cup Test Preparation:

Water ratio: 8.2--8.3 grams of coffee beans with 150ml of water, water powder ratio 1: 18.18, water temperature should be 94°C;

Cup test cup: tempered glass or ceramic materials should be used,

Cup capacity: between 207ml and 266ml,

Cup diameter: 76 - 89mm, all cups should be made of the same volume, size and material

Spoons for cup testing: Use antistatic metal materials (mostly stainless steel), and each spoon can have a capacity of 4-5ml.

Cup Test Process:

1. Grind the beans to be cupped into powder (grind BG : 3B).

2. smell dry fragrance

3. Pour hot water (94 degrees Celsius) into the glass until it is full and time for 4 minutes.

4. After 2 minutes, smell the wet aroma

5. After 4 minutes, you can break the slag.

"Broken residue": Use the cup measuring spoon to push away the coffee powder floating on the surface, so that the aroma of the coffee burst out, confirm the aroma performance of the coffee, gently stir with the cup measuring spoon for about 3 rounds and let stand for 2 minutes.

6. After 2 minutes, you can get rid of the slag.

"Scrape": Use a cup spoon to pick up the surface of the foam, each time you pick up a cup spoon to clean to avoid leaving a bad taste affect coffee.

7. Spoon up the coffee and sip it. Sipping causes coffee to mist and disperse in the mouth, allowing flavor molecules to be more clearly displayed.

8. Spit the coffee in your mouth into a spit cup.

Difference between dry and wet:

Jamaica Blue Mountains: dark chocolate; nuts; brown sugar.

Panama rose summer: fruity bouquet; peach.

The difference between cup flavor:

Jamaica Blue Mountains: chocolate; nuts; cream; brown sugar. Sweet, sour and bitter balanced, moderate and perfect acidity, with a slight fruity aroma.

Panama rose summer: strawberry; peach; citrus; floral; bouquet; dark berry flavor; full-bodied, multi-layered sour and sweet.