What are the characteristics of Jamaican coffee? what kind of coffee producing area is Jamaica?

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Jamaica Jamaica

Location: central America

Area: 11100 square kilometers

Population: 2826000

Official language: English

Coffee planting area in Jamaica: 9000 ha

Coffee output: 27,000 bags

Coffee variety: Arabica

Coffee characteristics: the myth of the coffee world. Its flavor is mild, clean, soft, fruity and sour, and can meet people's various needs. In addition, the delicious and juicy Blue Mountain coffee has a long-lasting flavor, as drinkers say, with a long aftertaste.

Overall grade of Jamaican coffee: excellent

Special producing areas:

In 1728, Sir Nicholas Nicholas Lawes, then governor of Jamaica, introduced coffee from Martinique. Jamaica is an ideal place to grow coffee, and nine years after it was introduced, they began to export about 83000 pounds of beans a year. Between 1728 and 1768, the Jamaican coffee industry was in ST. There was a great deal of development in the foothills of Andrew, but eventually it gradually developed to the Blue Mountains. In June 1950, the Coffee Industry Association of Jamaica established official standards for the quality of raw beans for export coffee.

The Blue Mountain area refers to some islands to the east of Jamaica, and only Jamaican coffee grown here can be called Blue Mountain Coffee (JBM). Jamaican Alpine Coffee (Jamaica High Mountain) refers to the fact that coffee is grown in alpine areas outside the Blue Mountain area. Wallenford, Mavis, Old Tavern and Moy Hall are the four most famous statutory blue mountain coffee raw bean processing plants in Jamaica. But these four are not coffee farms, they are raw coffee processing plants, do not grow their own coffee, but buy unprocessed raw coffee beans from small farms in the Blue Mountains area and then deal with them in accordance with official quality standards.

The flavor of the really high-end Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is purely clean, gentle and gentle, but this is also where blue mountain coffee is more difficult to bake, just like other beans that also come from the island. even the best Jamaican coffee grown at the highest altitude is not the highest in altitude compared with other coffee grown at the highest altitude, and the bean density at lower altitude is lower. Therefore, the things to pay attention to when baking are also different. If you lack the experience of baking high-quality coffee, even if you buy great blue mountain raw beans, you may bake a pot of lifeless ordinary coffee. In addition, the rule of thumb for brewing Blue Mountain Coffee is to increase the amount of beans by 20% in order to get the rich and elegant aroma of Blue Mountain Coffee, which is why Blue Mountain Coffee needs to be sold more expensive.