Where does Jamaican coffee produce Blue Mountain Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee? why is it delicious and popular?

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The Blue Mountains in central Jamaica is an extraordinary sight. The higher reaches of the river are almost eternal fog, and the tropical sun gives it an otherworldly internal light, as if the light itself had fallen on the trees. The fog slowed the development of coffee, producing denser beans than the relatively modest increase in altitude (3000 to 4000 feet) elsewhere. Coffee grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica is the most famous, expensive and controversial origin in the world.

Jamaican Coffee Blue Mountain has been a respected coffee since at least the early 19th century, when Jamaica led the world's coffee production in a short period of time. After World War II, the British colonial government was shocked that undisciplined production was on the brink of damaging Blue Mountain's reputation and that strict regulatory and quality control plans had been put in place under the leadership of the newly established Jamaican Coffee Industry Committee. After Jamaica's independence from the UK, the new Jamaican government continued its coffee policy, requiring all Blue Mountains to be wet-processed in government-approved factories and dried, ground, cleaned and graded in centralized facilities.

As the volume increases, the mass decreases. When I first tasted Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee from a famous outlet called Wallensford Estate in the mid-1970s, it was really a fine coffee: it may not be dramatic, but it is very rich, balanced, resonant and complete. However, in the 1970s and 1980s, the Coffee Industry Committee began to invest in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica with funds provided by Japanese interests. A new factory was built, using a short-cut version of the wet treatment called aquapulping or mechanical deburring, and despite the Coffee Council's efforts to maintain it, production increased significantly and quality declined.

The famous Wallensford trademark of Jamaican coffee is now meaningless: it simply describes coffee processed by wet processing in one factory, similar to almost all other government factories. (indeed, the Wallensford factory is located in the heart of the Blue Mountains, which may make coffee slightly higher than some other factories produce. ) most Blue Mountain Coffee is now a decent to impressive version of the Caribbean flavor: quite rich, soft, low acidity, sometimes mild and energetic, sometimes hardly enough to free the cup from listlessness.

Blue Mountain Manor Coffee. The long recession in Japan (Japan supports the price of Jamaican coffee by buying large quantities of Blue Mountains) and the sharp fall in global coffee prices have put the Jamaican Blue Mountain industry in trouble. At the same time, the Jamaican Coffee Industry Commission conducted an unprecedented experiment, allowing several farmers to wet treat their Blue Mountains on their farms and use their coffee as an independent and unique manor coffee export. not a general-purpose Blue Mountain. The new Blue Mountains estates include Alex Twyman's Old Tavern Estate and RSW Estates, a team of three family-owned farms that wet their coffee in an ordinary factory. All these manor coffees are processed by traditional fermentation and washing techniques.

I don't have enough experience with RSW Estates to evaluate its Jamaican coffee. However, I am very familiar with Alex Twyman's Old Tavern Estate Jamaica Blue Mountain, and I can guarantee that it is often close to the original Wallensford Blue Mountain, combining gentle and deep, energetic strength. However, there are inconsistencies in the old pub: a slight, almost undetectable hardness sometimes bothers its broth-like richness. Time will tell whether Old Tavern will become a particularly high-quality coffee, whether RSW Estate Coffee or a more dynamic leader of Jamaican coffee officials, can help the Jamaican Blue Mountain industry out of the doldrums.

Jamaica Coffee Blue Mountain's reputation and high prices encourage often deceptive blender creativity: the Blue Mountain mixture contains very little actual Blue Mountain, or Blue Mountain "style" mixture, and does not contain any Blue Mountains. These coffees may be great, but they are not Blue Mountains.