Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee bean hand brewing method how to make it good? Distinguish between real and fake Blue Mountain Coffee?

Recently, many guests who come to Qianjie Coffee have begun to study "how to make coffee by hand at home?"

Coincidentally, when a guest came to Qianjie Coffee to taste the Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans a few days ago, he asked, "I can't make it well at home. How can I get the taste of the blue mountain coffee beans?" Qianjie Coffee today, let's talk about how to brew Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans to taste better.

Front Street Coffee Jamaica washed Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans

Country: Jamaica

Producing area: blue Mountain (Clifton Manor)

Altitude: 1310m

Variety: iron pickup

Treatment: washing

Flavor: sweet brown sugar and sour berries on the palate, with nutty cocoa in the middle and back, creamy and layered, with walnut aromas in the finish.

Introduction to the producing area of coffee beans in the blue mountains of Jamaica

The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of the island of Jamaica, hence its name because it is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. On clear days, the sun shines directly on the blue sea, and the peaks reflect the bright blue light of the sea. The highest peak of Blue Mountain is 2256 meters above sea level (2256m above sea level, coffee can only be grown below 1700m, above is protected forest), it is the highest peak in the Caribbean and a famous tourist attraction. Its mountains have a unique climate and soil, which is located in the earthquake zone, with extremely fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, foggy and rainy all the year round, with an average precipitation of 1980 mm and a temperature of about 27 degrees. This climate has created the world-famous Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans, making it one of the most expensive coffee in the world.

Qianjie Coffee often says that the flavor quality of a coffee bean depends on the bean itself, and the three major factors that determine the flavor of coffee beans include: coffee producing area, altitude, and treatment. Therefore, in the production of hand-brewed coffee before selecting a high-quality beans, combined with excellent brewing techniques can produce a wonderful flavor. Therefore, only growing Blue Mountain Coffee above 800m above sea level is authentic Blue Mountain Coffee. The Blue Mountain Coffee on the front street coffee bean list is 1310 meters above sea level and comes from Clifton Manor.

Qianjie Coffee Clifton Manor, Jamaica

The Jamaican Blue Mountain beans sold on Front Street Coffee come from Clifton Manor. Clifton Manor is by far the oldest coffee producer in Jamaica, and only Clifton Farm in Jamaica has the "tropical rainforest" logo.

As early as the mid-18th century (around 1750), Clifton Manor began to grow and produce coffee, and it is currently the largest estate in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. But Clifton Manor is only grown on a small scale by international standards. Qianjie Coffee chose to buy Blue Mountain coffee beans from Clifton Manor in Jamaica because it is the only estate that has a "tropical rainforest" certification in Jamaica.

The symbol of this certification is a little green frog.

It is not an easy thing to get this certification. Because if you want to meet this standard, you must meet a series of requirements.

The Alliance will protect the farm and its surrounding ecosystem, restrict the use of pesticides, and evaluate benchmarks such as waste management. Only coffee that has been evaluated and certified can be called "Rainforest Alliance certified coffee". Thus it can be seen that the strength of Clifton Manor should not be underestimated.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Bean grading system

The whole Blue Mountain is 2256 meters above sea level, while more than 1700 meters is a nature reserve and coffee cannot be grown. According to CIB, coffee between 910m and 1700 m above sea level can be called "Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee". Those with an altitude of 460 meters to 910 meters can only be called "Jamaican Alpine Coffee", and those below 460 meters are called "Jamaican preferred Coffee". Therefore, Jamaican coffee is not all blue mountain coffee, until now, only coffee from 6000 hectares of land in the blue mountain mountains (elevation > 910m) can be called blue mountain coffee beans. Coffee in other blue mountain coffee producing areas of about 2gamble can only be classified as alpine coffee or preferred coffee.

According to the Qianjie understanding CIB regulations, only the blue mountain coffee beans produced in the production area of Jamaica Blue Mountain more than 2200 feet can be called Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans, and their grades are NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and hand-selected PB according to the bean size. Among them, the basic standard of blue mountain raw beans of NO.1 is beans with more than 17 mesh, defect rate less than 3%, moisture content about 13%, and so on. At present, the Jamaican coffee shop on the market can issue certificates for all exported Blue Mountain coffee.

Introduction to the treatment of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee beans in Qianjie Coffee

Until 2019, Blue Mountain coffee beans at Clifton Manor used washing to treat raw coffee beans.

During the treatment, first remove the peel and pulp and let it ferment for 12 hours and 18 hours, then put the fermented beans into the pool and pass them back and forth, using the friction of the beans and the power of running water to wash the coffee beans until smooth and clean. After washing, at this time, the coffee beans are still wrapped in the pericarp with a moisture content of 50%. They must be dried to reduce the moisture content to 12-14%, otherwise they will continue to be mellow, moldy and rotten. After that, the coffee beans are screened and stored in a special warehouse. The washing method ensures that the aroma of Blue Mountain Coffee is rich, the taste is balanced, and there is no outstanding or lacking essence of taste.

In 2019, Clifton Farm broke through the original inherent model and used solarization treatment for the first time. Under the influence of the market, Blue Mountain Coffee conducted a tanning experiment in 2019 and began to export small batches of Blue Mountain for the first time in 2020. For Qianjie, this kind of sun-dried Blue Mountain coffee changes the inherent flavor structure of Blue Mountain because of its change of treatment. Every time Qianjie Coffee introduces coffee beans in a certain producing area to guests, it will first recommend washed coffee beans. It is because washing can best represent the flavor of the producing area. Of course, Blue Mountain Coffee uses sun treatment, more or follow the development of the market.

How to tell the real Blue Mountain Coffee beans? Qianjie Coffee is here to share with you:

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Export companies designated by the National Coffee Bureau

Some of the authentic Blue Mountain 1 in the Chinese market is mainly exported to China by Japan, Australia and Europe through direct subsidiaries. In 2013, according to the International Coffee Association (ICO), Japan accounted for 85% of the quota, while the United States, Europe and other countries each accounted for 5%. According to ICO statistics, China accounts for 15% of the consumption of Blue Mountain Coffee. It is worth noting that most of the limited Blue Mountain one is distributed in Japan, the United States and Europe. Because of Japan's investment in the Jamaican coffee industry, most of the Blue Mountain coffee was bought out by Japan. In 1992, Jamaica sold 688 tons of Blue Mountain coffee beans to Japan, 75 tons to the United States and only 59 tons to the United Kingdom.

In 2005, the Minister of Agriculture of Jamaica announced that Blue Mountain Coffee beans should be roasted in Jamaica, so they tended to circulate directly from Jamaica to the consuming country through quota allocation, which was endorsed by the Jamaica Coffee Authority (CIB). (ps:CIB 's board of directors is the owner of more than a certain number of farms in Jamaica.) in addition, Logo, officially registered by the Jamaican Coffee Bureau, is used to certify the export of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans, and the BLUEMOUNTAINCOFFEE ®trademark is the logo of authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee packaging.

Coffee Industry Committee (CIB)

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The only producing area where raw beans are filled in buckets

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Bean is so far the only coffee producing area that uses buckets of raw beans, and other coffee exports use sacks. Flour shipped from Britain to Jamaica during the British colonial period in the mid-18th century was recycled in empty buckets and used to transport coffee and rum to insulate the aroma of coffee to ensure the quality of coffee. the buckets used today are wood from the temperate forests of the United States.

The frog on the Clifton bucket lid is rainforest certified.

Clifton Manor is the oldest coffee farm in Jamaica, and only Clifton Farm in Jamaica has the "(RFA) rainforest water frog" logo. Certification can be obtained only if it meets the Sustainable Agriculture system Standards, and the barrel has the mark of rainforest certification.

The Blue Mountain beans of Qianjie Coffee are through export companies designated by the Jamaican National Coffee Bureau, wood barreled raw beans and rainforest certified Blue Mountain beans.

The above is the basic information about Qianjie Blue Mountain Coffee. After learning about Qianjie, let's share how Blue Mountain can brew its flavor. As mentioned in the previous street article, a good bean needs the right hand to fully show its original flavor, otherwise the flavor may be too strong or too weak to drink the original flavor of the bean itself.

Qianjie Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Bean brewing experience sharing

Qianjie believes that the coffee brewed from the kono filter cup will be full and have a good flavor.

In terms of gouache ratio, Qianjie coffee uses a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15, and the grindness is 75% of the standard pass rate of No. 20. Qianjie Coffee hopes to highlight the balanced, mellow and soft sour flavor of Blue Mountain coffee beans; the water temperature is 88 degrees; in the choice of filter cups, priority is given to the use of slower-flow instruments such as KONO filter cups, kalita trapezoidal filter cups and flannel.

Qianjie coffee uses KONO filter cup to brew Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans.

KONO filter cup ribs stop when less than half the height of the filter cup, this design is actually to ensure that the filter cup wet close to the filter cup wall, the purpose of limiting air flow, which will increase the water absorption time of coffee powder particles, so that the extracted coffee is more uniform as a whole, and improve the mellow taste. And the grooved frame under the kono filter cup is a key design for subsequent cooking to produce siphon effect. Qianjie Coffee uses a three-stage flow method when brewing Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans. This is a very simple hand brewing method. You can simply learn this hand flushing technique at home to make a simple and delicious cup of coffee.

Qianjie Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Bean brewing data

Blue Mountain Coffee is an excellent and clean taste and is very suitable for hand brewing. 30 grams of water for steaming, the steaming time is about 30 seconds, the small flow center around the injection of 95 grams of water, that is, 125 grams of water segments, and so on when the water level drop is about to expose the powder bed, the second injection to the end of 230 grams, the water level drop is about to expose the powder bed to remove the filter cup, (steaming starts timing) the extraction time is 2 minutes 39 percent 00 ".

What is the flavor of the coffee beans on the front street of Jamaica Blue Mountain one?

The excellent quality of Blue Mountain coffee beans gives it a clean taste. In the era of medium and deep baking, Blue Mountain coffee beans tend to show a balance of sweet and sour, with slight notes of nuts and chocolate, and the aftertaste is very comfortable. It represents the highest quality of coffee and is a veritable king of coffee.

The scenic days of the Blue Mountains coincided with the reform and opening up of our country, when foreign materials poured in, including coffee beans, and coffee was not as ubiquitous as it is now, and only welcome hotels will be equipped with coffee. The prestige of Blue Mountain Coffee was introduced into China at that time, and it is well known that most people have never drunk Blue Mountain Coffee, but as long as one person has drunk Blue Mountain Coffee, it is called the capital of showing off.

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