What grade does the taste of Jamaica boutique coffee beans-Blue Mountain Coffee (Blue Mountain Coffee) belong to?

Blue Mountain Coffee, which can be said to be a boutique known to everyone in the coffee circle, has not only been praised many times by many coffee appraisers, but even the elders who do not drink coffee have heard the name. Among the guests who go to the Dongshankou store in Qianjie to drink Blue Mountain Coffee, the most frequently asked question asked by Qianjie barista is: "is your Blue Mountain Coffee real?" "

Is there any real Blue Mountain Coffee in China?

If we enter the keyword "Blue Mountain" in the search engine, there will be a large number of articles about how to identify the authenticity of Blue Mountain. Indeed, as Blue Mountain Coffee is famous all over the world, many unscrupulous merchants pretend to be real products under the banner of Blue Mountain, and there are a large number of fake Blue Mountain products on the market. The most common ones are mixed with words such as "Blue Mountain flavor", "Blue Mountain matching" and "Blue Mountain instant". In fact, they have nothing to do with Zhenlan Mountain.

Although there are many fake blue mountains in China, it does not mean that there are no real blue mountains. In fact, our country reported the direct import of Blue Mountain coffee from Jamaica in April 2011. At that time, Zhejiang DUNN'S RIVER Import and Export Trading Company purchased from Jamaica on behalf of the Hangzhou Coffee and Western Food Association, totaling 1000*70kg, with a total amount of US $2 million. Nowadays, Jamaica also attaches great importance to the Chinese market, and the list of domestic authorized exporters can be found on the CIB website.

The Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee baked on Qianjie Street is produced by Clifton Manor, Jamaica, with a certificate of quality issued by the Jamaican Coffee Bureau, an authorized sales certificate issued by the Blue Mountain Coffee manufacturer, and a certificate of origin of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. Oak barrels containing Blue Mountain beans are also displayed in the Dongshan pass store.

Why are the True Blue Mountains so expensive?

Blue Mountain Coffee was once known as Herm è s. Authentic Blue Mountain can make people taste rich, dense, long-lasting chocolate and roasted hazelnut aromas. at the same time, it has a sour, sweet, bitter, fragrant and mellow taste. Qianjie believes that Blue Mountain Coffee has such a high reputation without the careful management and strict grading of Jamaican growers.

Blue Mountain has unique local conditions, and the combination of various factors makes it a perfect space for growing coffee. But coffee as a crop, variety, altitude, picking, post-treatment will affect the final aroma.

Jamaica Coffee Industry Authority (CIB) officially divided the area, growing Blue Mountain Coffee in the forest area at an altitude of about 910 to 1700m above sea level can be called the true sense of "Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee". Iron pickup needs to be planted at high altitude, the flavor performance is more prominent, coupled with the poor disease resistance of iron pickup varieties, very easy to get infected, coupled with the low fruit yield of a single plant, so it needs to put more manpower to take good care of it. In addition, the terrain at the high elevation of the Blue Mountains is uneven, and it is very difficult to manage and pick, so there is a high demand for the proficiency of the harvester, which further affects the production. In recent years, less than 15% of the coffee beans produced in Jamaica can be labeled as Blue Mountain Coffee, about 900 tons.

I believe many friends have heard the rumor that "the authentic Blue Mountain Coffee has been monopolized by Japan", which is not groundless. UCC is a Japanese coffee company, formerly known as Ushima Coffee Co., Ltd., which opened a farm to operate the Blue Mountain Coffee project in Jamaica in 1981. Jamaica promised to sell 90% of the Blue Mountain coffee quota to Japan, coupled with the strong promotion of Blue Mountain in Japan, so it is difficult to get Blue Mountain prices. Today, with the vigorous development of coffee culture, it is no longer difficult to drink a cup of Blue Mountain Coffee. In Qianjie, you can drink a cup of Blue Mountain No.1 hand-made black coffee for 60 yuan.

Why is it called "Blue Mountain one"?

Compared with other coffee producing areas, Jamaica is the first country to realize that coffee has a "regional flavor". The local criteria for evaluating the quality of blue mountain raw beans cover a number of areas: raw bean size, defect rate, color, evenness, cup test performance after roasting (including dry aroma, wet aroma, acidity, flavor, alcohol thickness, cleanliness, etc.) and other factors.

The specifications of beans use a variety of sieves with different pore sizes, and coffee beans that do not pass through the hole are in line with the standards used. The evaluation of color includes naked eye observation and colorimeter reading, with turquoise as the highest grade. According to the above criteria, Blue Mountain Coffee is divided into four grades, from high to low: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3, PB and mixed. NO.1 is the highest grade of the top blue mountain beans, known as "Blue Mountain No.1" in China. Lanshan No.1 must meet the specification of more than 17 mesh, the defect rate is less than 3%, the moisture content is about 13%, and the cup test shows rich coffee aroma, smooth, balanced taste, low weak acidity and lasting return.

In roasting, CIB also has suggestions on the degree of roasting for the classic flavor of Blue Mountain, and Qianjie roasters follow this point, using medium roasting to make Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee both mellow chocolate sweet while retaining the right soft acidity.

Suggestion on brewing Blue Mountain No.1 Coffee

Qianjie hopes to highlight the mellow and round taste of Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee, which will be extracted with KONO coffee filter cup. KONO's ribs are less than half the height of the filter cup, and this design is actually designed to ensure that the filter cup is wet and close to the wall of the filter cup to limit the airflow, which will increase the water absorption time of coffee powder particles and make the extracted coffee more uniform as a whole.

Cooking parameters: 15g powder, powder / water ratio 1:15, grinding degree: EK43s scale 10.5 (China 20 standard sieve rate 75%), water temperature: 87g 88 ℃, cooking technique: staged extraction.

Place the filter paper in the KONO filter cup and fill it with water to wet the filter paper and make them fit better. Pour in the coffee powder and gently pat to distribute the powder evenly. The first stage is gently injected with 30 grams of water for steaming for 30 seconds, and the second stage is injected with about 125 grams of water to circle evenly and smoothly outward. Then wait for the coffee liquid to drop, drop to half, inject the last section of water to 225 grams, wait for the coffee to fall behind, the general total extraction time is about 2 minutes.

The hand-brewed Blue Mountain No.1 coffee is dark chocolate and nuts, which is very mellow and has obvious almonds. As the temperature drops, baked hazelnuts, creamy and smooth, with a hint of soft acidity and caramel sweetness, the aroma lingers in the mouth.

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