What is the difference between Green Mountain Coffee and Blue Mountain Coffee? Why are Blue Mountain coffee beans so expensive?

Although there is only one word difference between Green Mountain Coffee and Blue Mountain Coffee, the actual difference is not one or two points. Let's break down and introduce these two kinds of coffee in the front street to see what characteristics they have.

Green Mountain Coffee from America

Green Mountain is not the name of a producing area. Green Mountain Coffee (Green Mountain Coffee) is a coffee brand founded in Vermont in 1981 and listed in 1993.

Although it's all about coffee brand marketing, unlike Starbucks'"high-taste" high-priced coffee, Green Mountain Coffee sells lower-priced high-quality Arabica beans. At the same time, Green Mountain Coffee has also made achievements in environmental protection. Since 2002, Green Mountain Coffee has sold certified fair trade coffee, all of which are organic coffee. (to be certified for fair trade coffee, coffee merchants must pay coffee farmers more than $1.26 per pound of beans and provide technology to enable coffee farmers to grow coffee organically, which is sustainable, environmentally friendly and healthy.

Due to the vigorous development of the coffee market in recent years, all kinds of coffee items can be said to be dazzling, but Green Mountain Coffee still adheres to the route of environmental protection and practicality. Among the many products sold in Green Mountain Coffee, the K-cup can be said to be a very practical one. According to the design philosophy of Peter Zhuogan and John Slivan, founders of the Krieger company KEURIG, "there is no need to make a pot of coffee, only one cup at a time is enough", so they invented the Krieger K cup at a time, and the Krieger Krieger has also developed a special single-cup coffee machine.

The advertisement for the K-cup shows: put the K-cup in the coffee machine and make a cup of hot coffee in one minute without grinding beans, weighing, cleaning and no coffee residue. The price of the most important K cup is only 50 cents per cup, which is only 1/10 of the price of a cup of coffee at Starbucks. The design concept of K-cup has greatly increased the sales of Green Mountain Coffee, so Green Mountain has applied for a number of patents related to K-cup, so that other manufacturers have to pay copyright fees to Green Mountain when using K-cup packaging.

Blue Mountain Coffee from Jamaica

As can be seen on the map, Jamaica is an island country located in the Caribbean region of North America, belonging to the tropics. To the north is Cuba, next to Central America. The coffee-growing area is mainly distributed around the Blue Mountains in the eastern part of the island of Jamaica, which is named Blue Mountain because the sun shines directly on the blue sea when the weather is clear and the mountains reflect blue. The Lanshan Mountains have the highest mountain in the area, with a peak of about 2256 meters. Only those below 1700m can grow coffee trees. These are the local protected forests.

The cloud-shrouded blue mountain planting area at high altitude, the fertile soil of the volcanic zone, the humid and rainy climate throughout the year, the average temperature around 27 ℃, and almost no industrial pollution in the area are all factors conducive to the cultivation of high-quality blue mountain coffee beans. See here, I believe you should be able to see that the commercial brand of Green Mountain Coffee and the excellent quality of Blue Mountain Coffee can be said to have no relationship. Let's talk about the reason why Blue Mountain coffee is expensive in front of the street.

Jamaica Coffee Industry Authority CIB has set strict production standards. Only Arabica coffee growing in a specific area with a height of 910m ~ 1700 m can be called Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, which is divided into four producing areas: St. Mary, St. Thomas, St. Andrew, and Portland, accounting for 1Comp3 of the entire Blue Mountain growing area, and 2UB3 land is used for growing Jamaican alpine coffee and Jamaican preferred coffee. Coupled with steep hillsides and difficult manual harvesting, production has been further affected. In recent years, less than 15% of coffee beans produced in Jamaica can be labeled Blue Mountain Coffee.

We often hear that in the early days, the Blue Mountain coffee market in Jamaica was almost monopolized by Japan. As a result of the storm disaster on the island of Jamaica in 1969, the planting area suffered heavy losses. Japan's UCC Coffee Group provided a lot of assistance to tide it over, and continued to invest in Jamaica's coffee industry at a later stage. Jamaica signed a 30-year agreement with Japan in 1972, promising that Japan has the preemptive right to buy Blue Mountain Coffee, during which 90% of Blue Mountain production is supplied to Japan. The remaining 10% of the quota is allocated to Europe, the United States, Asia and other countries, which is why we often heard that the price of Blue Mountain coffee was so high in those days. In the early years, there were few authentic Blue Mountain coffee in China, or the price of Blue Mountain coffee was too high for most people to afford, so there were many low-priced "Blue Mountain flavor instant coffee" and low-quality "Blue Mountain blended coffee" on the market.

As Jamaica's agreement with Japan expires, Jamaica wants to expand the buyer market and allocate more of the Blue Mountain Coffee quota to other coffee markets. China imported the first batch of raw beans of Blue Mountain Coffee in 2010, and Qianjie added the highest grade Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee to the daily coffee bean list for everyone to taste.

The so-called Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee is a Jamaican national treasure blue mountain coffee bean, with a raw bean size of more than 17 mesh, a defect rate of less than 3%, a moisture content of 10-12.5%, and a well-balanced sour, sweet, bitter, mellow and fragrant flavor. With uniform color and neat granules, raw beans belong to a very rare batch.

Front Street Coffee: Jamaica Blue Mountain one Coffee Bean

Producing area: the Blue Mountains of Jamaica

Manor: Clifton Manor

Altitude: 1310m

Treatment: washing

Variety: iron pickup

Flavor: chocolate nuts, cream, cocoa taffy

Suggestion on brewing Blue Mountain Coffee

If you want to drink coffee with rich aroma, Qianjie recommends using freshly roasted coffee beans for brewing. Since coffee takes 4-7 days to raise beans after roasting, the coffee beans shipped in Qianjie coffee are all baked within 5 days. This ensures that the coffee beans received after you place an order are the freshest, which is just in the best taste period. If there is no grinding machine at home, Qianjie Coffee provides a substitute grinding service, and the aroma of ground coffee powder will be faster than that of coffee beans, so if there are conditions, Qianjie suggests that it should be equipped with its own grinding device to better drink the aroma of coffee.

Qianjie believes that the high-quality flavor of Lanshan No. 1 coffee lies in the balance of sweet and sour, mellow thickness and full aroma. On baking, Qianjie chose medium-deep roasting, which can highlight the nutty and cocoa aromas of coffee beans. Better alcohol thickness can be obtained by using KONO filter cup.

Now the KONO filter cup is moist, which can make the filter paper and coffee filter cup fit better. Put 15g coffee powder into the water in the sharing pot at the same time, steam with 30g water for 30s, then start injecting water around the center with small water flow for 30s, until 125g begins to segment, wait until the coffee powder layer drops to half the position of the filter cup and start to inject the second stage with the same method, until 225g, and then the filter cup can be removed after all the dripping is completed.

Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee can smell a very strong aroma after grinding, with the sweet aroma of caramel in the process of brewing, the entrance is full-bodied of nuts and chocolate, moderate sweet and sour taste, clean taste and long aftertaste.

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