What is the difference between Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee?

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Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee come from the Blue Mountains on the island of Jamaica. Although it comes from the same mountain, Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee are not the same coffee beans.

Blue Mountain Coffee refers to coffee beans grown in the Blue Mountains between 900m and 1700 meters above sea level, while Alpine Coffee refers to beans planted between 450m and 900m above sea level. The coffee beans below 450m are called the preferred coffee beans in Jamaica.

Among them, Blue Mountain Coffee beans are graded according to the size of the beans.

Grade I Blue Mountain / Blue Mountain No. 1 (Blue Mountain No. 1)-the top, the most expensive, the largest grain of beans, more than 96% of beans must be 17 mesh size, bad beans can not exceed 2%.

Grade II Blue Mountain / Blue Mountain No.2 (Blue Mountain No. 2)-more than 96% of beans must be 16 mesh size, and bad beans should not exceed 2%.

Grade 3 Blue Mountain / Blue Mountain No. 3 (Blue Mountain No. 3)-96% of beans must be 15 mesh size, and bad beans should not exceed 2%.

How to distinguish authentic Blue Mountain Coffee?

The packaging of Blue Mountain Coffee is very special, not linen bags, high barrier anti-degradation bags, vacuum packaging, but a small number of producing areas that still use wooden barrel packaging. After special treatment, the barrel material can effectively strike a balance between drying and moisturizing, and ensure that raw beans are not squeezed and odor-free.

The barrel with the official certification seal can not only ensure the quality of raw coffee beans in the process of transportation, but also consider the production, transportation, preservation quality, labor-consuming and time-consuming packaging, which precisely shows the advanced level of Blue Mountain Coffee, so that guests who have been waiting for a long time can get a higher sense of satisfaction when they receive raw coffee beans. In the early years in Taiwan, traders who managed to obtain blue mountain raw beans even carried out a prudent bucket opening ceremony for them.

At the same time, the Jamaican government / country of origin will issue a certificate certifying the authenticity and grade of blue mountain coffee beans. On the front street, the Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee starts with Clifton Manor, an export company designated by the Jamaican National Coffee Agency. The buckets containing raw coffee beans will have the English print of Clifton Manor and the logo of green water frogs. Coffee shops on Qianjie can see that coffee buckets have been certified by Clifton Manor.

The basic standard of Lanshan No. 1 coffee raw beans from Qianjie is beans with more than 17 mesh, defect rate less than 2%, moisture content about 13%, etc., which looks like full grains, uniform size and blue-green raw beans. The flavor is both sour, sweet, bitter, fragrant and mellow.

Suggestion on brewing Blue Mountain Coffee

Blue Mountain Coffee is not the best coffee in the world, but it must be the coffee with the most balanced taste and flavor as a whole. Qianjie coffee highlights the smooth fragrance of blue mountain coffee, mellow and solid coffee flavor and taste characteristics, so the coffee beans will be roasted to a medium-deep level. When everyone brews the blue mountain coffee sold in Qianjie coffee, the water temperature can not be too high, about 88-89 degrees Celsius! Grinding should not be too fine, just grind to the size of coarse sugar (70% overscreening rate of China No. 20 standard sieve). In the brewing utensils, Qianjie Coffee chooses the kono filter cup with shorter ribs, because it can achieve the effect of prolonged extraction.

Kono filter cup, 88C water temperature, 1:15 powder / water ratio, 15g powder weight, medium grinding degree (20 standard sieve pass rate 70%), with three-stage water injection for extraction. The first stage is injected with 30 grams of water for steaming for 30 seconds, and the second stage is injected with about 125 grams of water, then wait for the coffee liquid to drop, and when it falls to half, the last section of water is injected to 225 grams, and then the extraction ends when all the coffee droplets lag behind. Generally, the total extraction time is about 2 minutes and 10 seconds.

Qianjie Coffee Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee flavor performance: dark chocolate, nutty flavor, creamy smooth taste, sweet and sour balance.