Which brand of blue mountain coffee beans is good? What's the flavor of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee?

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Jamaica Blue Mountain, known as Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee in English, used to be all-powerful in competitions and bidding arenas. Its taste is very balanced and smooth. Because it is planted in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, the top blue mountain coffee can only be grown at an altitude of more than 2000 meters. The Blue Mountains are the highest mountains around the Caribbean Sea, rich soil and high-altitude climate, bringing the special flavor of coffee here. Some people say that Blue Mountain can maintain a certain balance of taste at any temperature, while WALLENFORD, MAVIS BANK, SILVER HILL, MOY HALL and GOLD CUP are well-known estates of Blue Mountain Coffee.

The history of Jamaican coffee can be traced back to the 18th century. The British introduced coffee trees to Jamaica and planted coffee in the Blue Mountains. Among them, it is divided into high-altitude pure blue mountain coffee, alpine blue mountain coffee beans, upper blue mountain coffee beans and low-altitude blue mountain coffee beans. Different grades also determine different prices.

And coffee, like all crops, depends on heaven for food. We, who belong to the island of Taiwan, which is often ravaged by typhoons, can better understand that a huge wind and rain may destroy the whole batch of crops, and Jamaica is also deeply affected by hurricanes. As long as there are hurricanes, they often lead to birth problems in the production of coffee beans, which are greatly affected in terms of taste and yield. Under such circumstances, the Japanese UCC company has helped to bring in a way of planting that can withstand hurricanes, so the Jamaican government, in gratitude for Japan's assistance, allows Japan to buy Blue Mountain coffee every year. 70% to 80% of Blue Mountain coffee is owned by the Japanese first. In order to emulate the taste of Blue Mountain Coffee, other manors and countries have used coffee beans of similar taste, but there is still a certain difference in taste, which is called Blue Mountain flavor or Blue Mountain mixed Coffee. A real Blue Mountain coffee will cost more than NT $1500 a pound.

The secret of Blue Mountain Coffee

The "secret" of why Blue Mountain coffee tastes pure: their coffee trees are all on rugged hillsides, and the picking process is so difficult that non-local skilled women are simply unable to do it. It is very important to choose the right ripe coffee beans when picking. Immaturity or ripeness will affect the quality of the coffee. The picked coffee beans are shelled on the same day, and then let them ferment for 18 hours. After that, the coffee beans were cleaned and screened. The subsequent process is to dry, which must be carried out on the cement floor or on a thick blanket until the humidity of the coffee beans drops to 12% 14%. And then store it in a special warehouse. Take it out and roast when needed, then grind it into powder. These procedures must be strictly mastered, otherwise, the quality of coffee will be affected.

The shade trees planted around the coffee are also a major feature of Blue Mountain Coffee. Shade trees are usually banana trees or native Jamaican Ackee fruit trees, which protect coffee trees from the hot sun and have the function of soil and water conservation. Taking care of coffee trees requires considerable patience and care, regular pruning, removal of old stems to facilitate the growth of new branches, frequent inspection of fruit growth, and removal of stunted ones at any time, so as not to waste nutrients.

The harvest of Blue Mountain Coffee is all manual, and workers have to travel among the trees on the slope to pick the ripe coffee cherries one by one. As the ripening rate of coffee cherry fruits on the same tree is sometimes fast and some slow, it is often divided into dozens of times before all the coffee can be harvested, and the whole process is very hard.

The harvested fruit must first be screened by bleaching, and then the peel and mucous membrane of the fruit must be removed by washing, exposing the coffee beans inside, and sent to the processing plant for centralized processing. In the coffee ripening season, the wet beans (called wet punchment) after washing are spread all over the square next to the processing plant and are baptized by daylight.

Until the coffee beans are dried, strict manual selection and machine classification are carried out, and finally packaged and exported. Blue Mountain Coffee is also a major feature of hand-made wooden barrel packaging instead of general sack packaging.

All exported Blue Mountain Coffee must be carefully examined by the Jamaica Coffee Industry Authority (Coffee Industry Board). Only by passing the Cupping Test (tasting test) of coffee by professional quality control personnel can we enter the world market.

There are three grades of coffee in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica:

Blue Mountain Coffee (Blue Mountain Coffee)

Alpine coffee (Jamaica High Mountasin Supreme Coffee Beans)

Jamaica Coffee (Jamaica Prime Coffee Beans)

Among them, Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee are each divided into two grades. In terms of quality, the order from top to bottom is: blue Mountain 1, Blue Mountain 2, Gaoshan 1, Gaoshan 2, Jamaican Coffee.

Coffee grown between 457m and 1524 m above sea level is usually called Blue Mountain Coffee.

Coffee grown between 274m and 457m above sea level is often called Jamaica Prime Coffee Beans, and the price of blue mountain coffee is several times higher than that of alpine coffee.

Blue Mountain Coffee is a high-quality Caribbean coffee, which, like other countries, has been damaged by natural hurricanes. It has seen too many damaged bean cups and tastes like kale. Prices are always affected or even cannot be sold in years hit by hurricanes. In addition, the hot and humid environment of island countries often makes coffee moth-eaten or white spots, and coffee beans with real zero defects are always rare. Coupled with the fact that the Japanese buy 70% of the Blue Mountain Coffee, the price remains high. The real high altitude 100% pure Blue Mountain Coffee is produced by the official processing plant in Jamaica. The coffee is packed in a special barrel and has a certificate on each barrel.

The Blue Mountain Coffee on the front street comes from Clifton Farm in Jamaica, which has a long history. The Blue Mountain area is a small area with a planting area of only 6000 hectares, and it is impossible to grow all the coffee marked "Blue Mountain" there. Today's Clifton Farm is the largest estate in the area and is also a small-scale plantation by international standards, many of which are small landowners whose families have been working on the land for two centuries.

The coffee planting and processing area at Clifton Farm falls at an average of 4300 feet (1310.64 meters), with sufficient altitude, mild afternoon cloud shade, ample sunshine and mineral-rich planting soil to provide good growth conditions for coffee plants. it also prolongs the ripening of coffee cherries.

Clifton's high altitude and long history, and in the treatment method is also unique, this wonderful and unique treatment method makes Clifton not only has the unique round and supple taste of Blue Mountain 1, but also has a slight floral aroma and other rich taste.

That's why there are more than 10,000 buckets of Blue Mountain coffee produced here! However, in Qianjie coffee, you can buy authentic Blue Mountain coffee for 158, which is very cost-effective.

In order to highlight the taste of Blue Mountain Coffee, Qianjie Coffee is roasted with deep roasting. It is recommended that the brewing parameters: KONO filter cup / 88 ℃ / 1 14 / time one minute and 50 seconds. The palate is full-bodied and well-balanced, with chocolate flavors and soft fruit acidity, with a long-lasting caramel at the end.

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