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Since 2019, the first Blue Mountain Coffee in Jamaica, which only insisted on water washing, has begun to "reform and innovate" and launched the Li Sun treatment method. In mid-November 2020, the first batch of Blue Mountain Rose Summer Coffee beans also arrived in China. Qianjie Coffee is not surprised by the "Blue Mountain Reform" in the past two years. In today's fierce competition, coffee flavor is beginning to move towards a fresh route of coffee market, what can Blue Mountain Coffee do to maintain its position? The answer is to plant rose summer. only in this way can the sudden "reform and innovation" of Blue Mountain Coffee suddenly rush back to the front of everyone's line of sight. Blue Mountain's innovation in the past two years is also worried that it will be forgotten.

Price of Blue Mountain No.1 Coffee

In 1725, Sir Sir Nicholas Lawes brought the first blue mountain coffee trees from Martinique to Jamaica and planted them in the St. Andrew area. In eight years, Jamaica exported more than 375 tons of pure coffee. In 1932, when the Jamaican law was passed to encourage coffee farming to reduce the island's dependence on sugar exports, coffee production peaked and more than 15000 tons of coffee was harvested.

In 1948, the quality of coffee had declined and Canadian buyers refused to renew their contracts, so ZF of Jamaica established the Coffee Industry Committee and made changes to the "Jamaican Coffee Industry" to standardize the process, improve coffee quality and equalize marketing in order to save the fate of top coffee. By 1969, the market was guaranteed by the use of Japanese loans to improve the quality of production. By 1981, about 1500 hectares of land in Jamaica had been reclaimed for coffee cultivation, followed by investment in another 6000 hectares of coffee land. in fact, today's Blue Mountain area is a small area with only 6000 hectares of acreage. It is impossible to grow all the coffee marked "Blue Mountain" there, so the price of authentic Blue Mountain coffee is very high. Another 12000 hectares of land is used to grow two other types of coffee (non-Blue Mountain Coffee): Alpine Top Coffee (High Mountain Supreme) and Jamaican Superior Coffee (Prime Washed Jamaican), which are not as good in quality and taste as Jamaican Blue Mountain 1 Coffee.

The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of Jamaica, 1000-1700m above sea level. Only the Blue Mountains planted in this area are authentic Blue Mountain Coffee. Because the mountain is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, whenever the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the blue sea, and the mountain peak reflects the bright blue light of the sea, hence its name. 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. 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.

According to what Qianjie said above, in a specific area, the picking process is very difficult, the picking period is also very important, the cost of manpower and material resources are greatly increased, we can generally understand that scarcity is expensive. But is Blue Mountain coffee the most expensive coffee bean? No, in recent years, more and more excellent coffee beans have taken part in various competitions, and the price of beans is several times higher than that of Blue Mountain Coffee.

It was also mentioned in Qianjie just now that Blue Mountain Coffee was originally only a variety of tin cards, but this year it has launched a variety of rose summer, so what is the difference between the two varieties of coffee?

The traditional blue mountain coffee variety is the iron pickup: the blue mountain iron pickup was transplanted from Martinique to the blue mountains of Jamaica in the 1820s. After more than 200 years, the blue mountain iron pickup has evolved better disease resistance, especially the resistance to rotten fruit disease is better than the general iron pickup. However, the Blue Mountain Ironhide Card cannot replicate its sweet and fragrant characteristics when it steps out of Jamaica. Blue Mountain until 2019 circulation in overseas markets are washed tin card species, but also because of such a single treatment and coffee varieties, created the blue mountain coffee for ten years of high quality, its balanced mellow taste loved by some friends, the introduction of sun treatment in 19 years of blue mountain coffee is the acidity of blue mountain coffee, mellow feeling is not as high as water washing.

The Blue Mountain Rose Summer Coffee is Rose Summer Coffee beans: from Ethiopia to Kenya to Uganda to Tanzania to Costa Rica to Panama, until 2004, when the owner of the Emerald Manor discovered Rose Summer and took it to the competition to become famous overnight. Rose Summer Coffee beans are thin and long, and the flavor is fresh and pleasant. Rose summer coffee beans have to be planted at high elevations in order to form a rich and charming flower fragrance. For example, the average altitude of planting rose summer in Feicui Manor is more than 1500m, while that in the blue mountain coffee producing area is only 1310m. Through the cup test of blue mountain rose coffee beans in the front street, it is found that the fragrance of blue mountain rose is not obvious, and only when you taste it carefully can you feel the slight fragrance of jasmine.

Coffee bean washing method

Washing is a technique invented by the Dutch in the 18th century to separate most of the pulp from the coffee beans by a peeling machine, then guide the shelled beans to a clean sink and soak them in water for fermentation to completely remove the residual pulp layer. Through water treatment, unripe beans and defective beans are selected because of buoyancy, and then peeled, also called beating, is used to remove the peel of the coffee fruit through a machine, and the rest of the coffee with pectin is put into the fermentation tank to ferment for 1 to 2 days to decompose the pectin attached to the coffee beans. Then wash the coffee beans with clean water and dry the raw beans with sheepskin until the moisture content reaches 12% and remove the sheepskin when it is exported.

The two varieties of Blue Mountain Coffee have different performance, first drink the traditional Blue Mountain Coffee and choose the washed Tippika Blue Mountain Coffee. If you want to drink the innovative Blue Mountain Coffee, you can choose the Rose Summer Blue Mountain Coffee.

Since the two kinds of blue mountain coffee beans are different, how do Qianjie baristas bake them?

Washed blue mountain coffee beans are roasted. In order to express the balance of sour, sweet and bitter of blue mountain coffee, Qianjie roaster uses the degree between medium-shallow and medium-deep roasting. The furnace temperature is 165℃, the firepower is 130mm, the throttle is set up 3; the temperature recovery point is 1pm / 39th / 32 ", when the furnace temperature is 95.8℃, the firepower is unchanged; the blower door is adjusted to 4pm in 3 minutes, and the firepower is increased to 140min. When the furnace temperature is 153.3 ℃, the bean table turns yellow, and the smell of grass disappears completely, and enters the dehydration stage. When 8 minutes after the explosion, the smell of toast obviously changes to the smell of coffee, which can be defined as a prelude to an explosion. At this time, you should listen clearly to the sound of an explosion point, start to explode until 10 minutes after the explosion, develop 3 minutes after an explosion, and drop beans for 198.5 ℃.

For this batch of blue mountain rose summer, Qianjie coffee baker encountered a problem, this should highlight the blue mountain flavor or rose summer flavor, if you make the blue mountain flavor, then what is the meaning of the rose summer, if highlight the rose summer flavor, then the name of the blue mountain does not match. But in order to highlight the characteristics of Rosa Coffee, Qianjie Coffee roasters finally chose medium-light roasting to highlight the aroma of flowers and fruits. The furnace temperature is 180 ℃ into the pot, the firepower is 130, the throttle is opened 3; the temperature recovery point is 1: 39: 32 ", when the furnace temperature is 97 ℃, the firepower is unchanged; the blower door is adjusted to 4 minutes in 3 minutes, and the firepower is increased to 140. When the furnace temperature is 153.5 ℃, the bean table turns yellow, and the smell of grass disappears completely, and enters the dehydration stage. When 8 times, the smell of toast obviously changes to the smell of coffee, which can be defined as a prelude to an explosion. At this time, it is necessary to listen clearly to the sound of an explosion point, to an explosion, and to the development of an explosion after an explosion. 3928 ", 192 ℃ under the beans.

Experience of Qianjie coffee brewing, washing iron pickup, blue mountain coffee and rose summer blue mountain coffee

Experience of summer brewing of Qianjie Coffee Blue Mountain Rose: powder quantity: 15g; Grinding degree: medium Fine Grinding degree (pass rate of Standard sieve 20: 78%); ratio of Powder to Water: 1V15; Water temperature: 91 ℃; filter Cup: V600.001

Qianjie coffee is brewed in stages: 1. The first stage is filled with 30 grams of water and steamed for 30 seconds. two。 At the end of steaming, the second section of water is injected, and 100 grams of water is injected outward in a circle in the center. This paragraph of water injection can be injected slowly, Rosa coffee is very extractable, it takes a certain amount of water injection time to flush out its aroma. Wait for the water level to drop to half after water injection. 3. When the powder bed is about to be exposed, 95 grams of water is injected into the third stage, with a total water injection of 225 grams. Wait for the coffee to be filtered and remove the filter cup. The total cooking time is 1 minute 52 seconds.

Cooking flavor: the taste is sour of citrus, sweet and sour of grapefruit, middle of jasmine, and sweet and sour of honey and caramel after taste.

Experience of summer brewing of Qianjie Coffee Blue Mountain Rose: powder quantity: 15g; Grinding degree: medium rough Grinding degree (pass rate of Standard sieve 20: 74%); in order to improve the alcohol thickness of washing Blue Mountain, the ratio of powder to water is 1: 13; water temperature: 89 ℃; filter cup: kono

Qianjie coffee is brewed in stages: 1. The first stage is filled with 30 grams of water and steamed for 30 seconds. two。 After the end of steaming, the second section of water is injected, and 80 grams of water is injected outward in the center. After water injection, wait for the water level to drop to half. 3. When the powder bed is about to be exposed, 85 grams of water is injected into the third stage, and the total amount of water injected is 195 grams. Wait for the coffee to be filtered and remove the filter cup. The total cooking time is 1 minute and 55 seconds.

Washed blue mountain coffee beans flavored flavor: the entrance has dark chocolate, nut flavor, high cleanliness, very bright, good mellow thickness, sweet and sour balance.

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