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The regional flavor of "island-type" coffee is defined as soft and elegant. The thickness is slightly thinner, not as mellow as Indonesia's Mantenin, but also owes to Kenya's changeable acidity, but island beans are extremely expensive. Island coffee accounts for half of the world's top 10 expensive coffee, including: Jamaica Coffee Blue Mountain, Hawaii Kona and Curry Fog, Bourbon semi-decaf Coffee and St. Helena.

The Blue Mountain of Jamaica is a model of typica.

At present, thousands of Arabica coffee varieties have been found or propagated through artificial intervention in the world, and iron pickup is one of the most famous ones. Many world-famous coffee is made of iron pickup, except for the Blue Mountains. Hawaii Kona, Papua New Guinea, Turtle Island Coffee.

Iron pickup is the oldest variety originated in Ethiopia, except for the native species of Ethiopia, the iron card beans from other regions are relatively large in shape, pointed oval, straight in the middle and symmetrical in the middle. Washed raw beans have obvious aroma of raw fruit or grass, elegant and balanced flavor after baking, but weak disease resistance, low yield, vulnerable to insect pests, so the price is expensive.

Jamaica is the only country in the world that has a government coffee regulatory agency-Jamaica Coffee Industry Authority (CIB), which belongs to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Jamaica. The function of CIB is planting technical guidance, processing training, fair trade, quality supervision and a series of things about the quality and brand of Jamaica Blue Mountain. The members of the board of directors of CIB are all owners of more than a certain amount of plantation estates in Jamaica (due to the transfer of industry, the newly certified Blue Mountain Manor in Jamaica requires an area of more than 50 hectares). 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. In addition, so far, Lanshan Coffee raw beans are treated only by water washing, and there are no sun and other treatments.

I have visited the main producing area of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica twice. The manor on the top of the mountain is called Amber, which covers an area of about 30 hectares. It is the property of the fourth generation Chinese, Canadian registered pediatrician Dr.Lyn (Guangdong). The current owner of the estate is his second son, Michael Lyn. The brothers visited Hangzhou in 2011. This manor has a high international reputation and its company is called Gold Cup. It is said that in the past, the beans of the estate were supplied directly to the British royal family and Wall Street bigwigs. Mainly, the company's requirements for products, to a stringent degree, not only in the appearance of NO.1 beans, require more than 18 eyes, but also require the products of cooked beans and raw beans, flawless. As a result, the market price is 20% higher than that of Blue Mountain on other estates.

The other two top Blue Mountain Coffee companies in Jamaica are Wallenford and Mavis Bank, which used to be state-controlled companies. Wallenford production exceeds 60% of all Jamaican Blue Mountain production. Magimis Bank produces more than 20%, and it is one of the few Jamaican Blue Mountain companies that own Jamaican Blue Mountain, Jamaican Alpine and Jamaican specialty coffee. After 2011, due to the tight national finances of Jamaica, the two companies began to be privatized and restructured. During my first visit to Jamaica, my partners from the Hangzhou team and I visited the coffee processing plants of the two companies respectively, and took many precious videos and photos of the processing of raw beans in the Blue Mountain of Jamaica. After returning home, we edited a more than 30-minute visit video of Blue Mountain Coffee Culture, which was uploaded to Youku and other video websites.

There is another company worth mentioning, it should be Coffee Trades, the name of the manor is CLYDESDALE, the coffee factory of the company is in the backyard of the CIB office building, the manor is about 1200 meters on the blue mountain hillside, and there is a beautiful European hilltop villa with a history of more than 300 years. The manor owner Sharp brothers are friendly and talkative. When we visited, my brother was 83 years old and my younger brother was 81 years old. A few years later, he died. Jason Sharp is currently taking over the industry. Because the Japanese took part in the shares, the raw beans of this manor that we could see in China before were represented by what company. The company actually controls, and in the CIB registered Blue Mountain Coffee Certification Company, another company, Clifton, the actual controller, is actually Jason Sharp.

Raw bean storage and parameters of ● Blue Mountain, Jamaica

A few years ago, after drying, the raw beans of Jamaica Blue Mountain were put in sacks and stored in a warehouse protected from light, shade, ventilation and dampness. before sale, they were put into buckets, and the beans were put directly into buckets without grain bag lining. In recent years, blue mountain raw beans have used grain fresh-keeping bags, which is a good improvement to maintain the moisture of coffee, prevent moth, and isolate other possible pollution sources. In general, after Lanshan raw beans enter China, if the whole barrel cannot be used all at once, it should be vacuum packed according to the amount of baking that may be used each time (for example, 1 kg), and then stored in a stable environment with a humidity of 55 °and a temperature of 18 °. If there are conditions, vacuum packaging, put into the temperature of about 4 degrees, the effect will be better, but the storage cost will be higher.

A few years ago, the blue mountain raw beans we came in were wrapped in a whole bucket of plastic wrap and stored in-22 °freezer. I thought it was foolproof. In fact, too low temperature storage will destroy the water structure left in the xylem fiber of raw coffee beans. After being taken out of the freezer, the water loss of beans is accelerated (usually it begins to whiten sharply in about a week). The loss of flavor is greater.

Recommended Baking degree and parameters of ● Blue Mountain in Jamaica

In Jamaica, Blue Mountain Coffee is often roasted to a degree of city or higher. Experts from the Jamaican Coffee Industry Bureau believe that Blue Mountain coffee is too light to roast, easy to highlight sour taste, loss of mellow thickness, and thin flavor, which can not reflect the balanced and elegant flavor of Jamaican Blue Mountain.

In recent years, with the impact of SCA on the roasting profession, the original practice of deep roasting individual coffee is changing the minds of many coffee lovers or consumers. But I insist that the Jamaican CIB's interpretation of coffee should be the most authoritative and perfect. In the past seven years of repeated research and testing of the Blue Mountain in Jamaica, the performance of high roasting is the most perfect in blue mountain coffee roasting.

● Jamaica Coffee Bean brand recommendation

Front Street Coffee roasted Jamaican Coffee-[Blue Mountain NO.1 Coffee beans] is fully guaranteed in terms of brand and quality. And more importantly, the performance-to-price ratio is extremely high, a pack of half a pound 100 grams, the price is only about 158 yuan. According to the calculation of 15 grams of powder per cup of coffee, a bag of coffee can make six cups of coffee, which costs only about 25 yuan per cup, which is recommended by conscience compared to the price sold in cafes for hundreds of yuan a cup.

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