A brief introduction to the ranking list of authentic Blue Mountain Coffee Brands Price characteristics of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee beans

The real Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee is black, caramel, soft sour berry, sugar cane sweet, sweet, sour and bitter perfectly blended in a cup of coffee, leaving people full of aftertaste.

What is Blue Mountain Coffee?

The reason why Qianjie emphasizes authentic Blue Mountain coffee is that Blue Mountain coffee production is rare, production costs lead to high prices, and reputation is very large. Some bad merchants take a fancy to "business opportunities" and sell low-quality deep-roasted beans or instant coffee under the name of Blue Mountain, misleading consumers. To identify the real Blue Mountain coffee, you must first understand what characteristics Blue Mountain has.

According to the Coffee Industry Management Act issued by Jamaica, the planting areas of Blue Mountain Coffee are mainly distributed in the four administrative districts of St. Andrew, St. Thomas, Portland and St. Mary, and it is clearly stipulated that only the iron card coffee growing at 910~1700 meters can be named Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. The steep terrain of the Blue Mountains at high altitude makes it difficult to manage picking and high labor costs, so the price of coffee will not be too low. If we buy "blue mountain beans" only tens of dollars, it is likely to be fake. As a reference, the Blue Mountain No.1 coffee bean sold in Qianjie is available for 158 yuan/100 grams.

Aroma, Blue Mountain coffee has a strong, dense, long-lasting chocolate, roasted hazelnut aroma, is the general dark roast blend coffee difficult to match. Taste, true blue mountain coffee sweet and sour bitter balance, which taste will not be more prominent, mellow and sweet feeling are just right.

If we can't distinguish through the above two points, then let the merchant show the Blue Mountain related certificate and the barrel of Blue Mountain packaging raw beans. Jamaica Blue Mountain is the only producing area that uses wood barrel raw beans. Front Street Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee also has a certificate of quality issued by the Jamaica Coffee Board, a certificate of authorized sales issued by the Blue Mountain Coffee manufacturer, and a certificate of origin for Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. Paperwork certificates and handmade barrels are displayed in the Front Street store. This Blue Mountain No.1 is produced by Clifton Manor and is processed by traditional washing method, which is also the most common raw bean processing method in Blue Mountain.

Why Blue Mountain Coffee Is So Expensive?

Before the 1960s, Jamaica coffee beans were already popular throughout the boutique market. Jamaica was badly affected by a hurricane in 1969, and many industries were in trouble, including the coffee industry. At this time, UCC in Japan helped finance the coffee industry in Jamaica and introduced scientific ecological farming methods. Jamaica's government has signed a 30-year contract with Japan, promising to supply 90% of its high-quality Blue Mountain coffee quota to Japan and the remaining 10% to European and American countries.

During this period, Blue Mountain Coffee has not been completely consumed in Japan's domestic market. They will sell part of Blue Mountain Coffee to other Asian countries and regions at high prices. With the Japanese's increased publicity efforts, many coffee people in neighboring countries have also begun to pursue Blue Mountain Coffee, such as Singapore, South Korea, China Taiwan and China Hong Kong. Since 2000, the "Blue Mountain craze" has gradually spread to China, which has also led to the phenomenon that Blue Mountain Coffee is hard to find at high prices.

During the global economic crisis of 2008, Jamaica tried to sell Blue Mountain coffee to more countries, just as its agreement with Japan expired and more quotas of Blue Mountain coffee were distributed to other countries. With the expansion of coffee market demand in China, many businesses in China have been able to import Blue Mountain coffee beans directly from Jamaica. Front Street's Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee is produced locally at the historic Clifton Estate and is traditionally washed.

Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Bean

Blue Mountain coffee varieties belong to the ancient iron pickup, planted in the higher altitude environment, the more prominent the flavor of iron pickup, coupled with the poor disease resistance of iron pickup varieties, easy to die, greatly affecting the yield, so more manpower is needed to take care of. In addition, the terrain of Blue Mountain is uneven, management and picking are very difficult, so the proficiency of picking personnel is very high. Fresh coffee is immediately transported to a processing plant, where it is washed to remove the skin and dried.

After hand-picked fresh coffee, put it into water, pick out the floating defective beans, then remove the peel and pulp, let it ferment in the pool for 12-18 hours, then put the fermented beans into the pool, move back and forth, and use the friction of beans and the power of water flow to wash the coffee beans smooth and clean. Then spread in the sun dehydration drying, until the moisture content reaches 12 - 14%, can be packed static warehouse, export before sending to the inspection. Washing treatment greatly reduces the defect rate, restores the aroma of Blue Mountain coffee beans themselves, and has a higher cleanliness in taste.

Before export, Blue Mountain coffee beans need to undergo strict quality testing and grading. The Jamaica Coffee Industry Board (CIB), authorized by the Jamaica government, will carry out fine inspection on the size, color, defects, flavor and other factors of green beans based on the coffee export grade criteria. First of all, Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee needs to meet the defect rate of less than 3%. It is divided into four grades according to particle size. Among them, the highest grade of Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 coffee green beans is above 17 mesh and the moisture content is about 10-12.5%. Baked with just the right sour, sweet, bitter, mellow, fragrant, and this is the classic Blue Mountain flavor.

How to drink authentic Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee?

With the popularity of fine coffee culture, many coffee people have already had the conditions to brew coffee at home, so some friends asked Qianjie how to brew coffee after buying Blue Mountain No.1 coffee beans. Here, Qianjie tells us about the extraction ideas of Qianjie in the way of store production ~

First, the front street will confirm the freshness of the coffee beans before brewing. If the roasting date has exceeded one month, the front street will choose fresher coffee beans. Because coffee beans have an optimal taste stage after roasting, the aroma of coffee will accelerate with the storage time, and it is difficult to present the original flavor during brewing. This is also why Front Street insists on delivering only freshly roasted coffee within 5 days. Front Street hopes that every guest can enjoy the most complete taste stage of coffee beans.

Front Street usually uses KONO filter cups when brewing coffee beans with bitter notes, in order to highlight the mellow taste of coffee. The upper part of KONO filter cup fits the filter paper better. Compared with v60 filter cup, the method of extracting coffee is mainly immersion extraction, which improves the overall concentration of coffee to increase the mellow degree of coffee. Similarly, KONO filter cups are also suitable for brewing coffee beans from the Brazilian Queen Estate and Gold Mandrine. In addition, Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee is moderately roasted, and the internal structure of the beans will be more fluffy than light roasted coffee, so the water absorption effect is better. In order to avoid over-extraction, Qianjie chose a thickness of 75% through No.20 standard sieve and a water temperature of 88℃, combined with the usual three-stage water injection in Qianjie.

The parameters for brewing Blue Mountain No.1 in Qianjie Store are:

Filter cup: KONO filter cup

Water temperature: 88 degrees Celsius

Powder water ratio: 1:15

Coffee powder: 15g

Abrasion: EK43 s-scale 10.5 (75% pass rate of standard sieve No. 20)

Here in the front street, wet the KONO filter cup first, and then align it into the filter paper, which can fit better with the filter cup. Pour out the water in the sharing pot and put in 15g coffee powder, steam with 30g water for 30s, then start to fill the water with small water flow in the center circle until 125g, and then inject the coffee powder layer into the second section in the same way until 225g. After all the filtration is completed, the filter cup can be removed.

Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee has the sweet aroma of dark chocolate, caramel sweetness, soft and elegant acidity, each taste balanced, smooth and mellow taste, has a very typical blue mountain flavor.

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