Taste and flavor characteristics of authentic Lanshan No. 1 coffee beans Why is Blue Mountain coffee so famous and so expensive

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee can be said to be one of the most expensive coffee in the boutique market. its coffee flavor gathers all the characteristics of good coffee. It not only tastes mellow, but also has a perfect match of sweet, sour and bitter taste. It does not have an unacceptable bitter taste. On the contrary, it has a moderate and perfect sour taste, so it is very popular with coffee fans. Then this article will talk about Blue Mountain Coffee in front of the street.

Classification and grading of Blue Mountains

The history of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee can be traced back to the 18th century. The British introduced coffee trees to Jamaica and planted coffee in the Blue Mountain Mountains, which is divided into high-altitude Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaican Alpine Coffee and Jamaican Coffee. Different grades also determine different prices. (1) Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

Among them, there are four grades under Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee. From top to bottom in terms of quality, NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and PB,PB are round beans. According to CIB standards, only coffee grown above 666m above sea level is called Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. The best coffee is located in the Blue Mountain of Jamaica with a height of about 2000,000,2256m. Because it is located on a dangerous hillside, the output is small, the grain is large, the quality is good, the taste is harmonious, and it has appropriate sour, bitter, fragrant, mellow and sweet taste. It is recognized as the best in the world, so the price of Blue Mountain No.1 is the highest of all Blue Mountain Coffee.

(2) Jamaica Alpine Coffee

The coffee produced below 666 meters in the Blue Mountain area of Jamaica is called Alpine Coffee, which is second only to Blue Mountain Coffee in quality. it is called the brother variety of Blue Mountain Coffee by industry insiders. Jamaica Blue Mountain caffeine produces very little, so if you want to taste Jamaican coffee, then Jamaican Alpine Coffee is your best choice.

(3) Jamaican coffee

Coffee is grown outside the Blue Mountains and is called Jamaican coffee. It turns out that people in the coffee industry in China generally have a wrong understanding that only coffee grown in the Blue Mountain area above 2000 meters above sea level can be called Blue Mountain Coffee, but in fact, on the crown of the Blue Mountain Mountains above 2000m, there is only one manor, that is, Amber, which is of Chinese descent. The owner of the manor is Lyn (Lin). Originally from Guangdong, China, the manor has a land area of only 30 hectares and its output is very small. Blue Mountain Coffee is mainly distributed in 5 mountainous areas such as John Crow,St.John's Peak,Mossman's Peak,High Peak,Blue Mountian Peak in the Blue Mountains. Planting conditions of Blue Mountain Coffee

Qianjie Coffee often says that the factors that determine the flavor of a coffee are coffee origin, variety and treatment. Then Qianjie Coffee will introduce Blue Mountain Coffee around these three factors.

The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of the island of Jamaica, because they are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. Whenever the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the blue sea, and the peaks reflect the bright blue light of the sea, so they are called Blue Mountains.

According to Qianjie Coffee, the highest peak of the Blue Mountains is 2256 meters above sea level. It is the highest peak in the Caribbean and a famous tourist attraction. Located in the coffee belt, with fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, foggy and rainy all the year round, the average precipitation is 1980 mm and the temperature is about 27 degrees, which is very suitable for the growth of high-quality Arabica coffee beans. This is also one of the reasons for determining the quality of blue mountain coffee beans.

Three major producing areas of Blue Mountain Coffee

The reason why the blue mountain coffee beans are expensive is not only because of its good flavor, but also because its output is very small, and the food is scarce.

Because the Blue Mountain area is a small area with a planting area of only 6000 hectares, it is impossible to grow all the coffee marked "Blue Mountain" there. Another 12000 hectares are used to grow two other types of coffee (non-Blue Mountain Coffee): Alpine Top Coffee and Jamaican Coffee.

Among them, St. Andrew, Portland and St. Thomas are the three famous producing areas in the Blue Mountains. Secondly, some small estates also grow Blue Mountain Coffee, such as Wallenford Manor, Silver Mountain Manor and Martinez's Atlanta Manor. Even the largest landowners in the region are small-scale growers by international standards, many of whom are small landowners whose families have been working on the land for two centuries.

According to Qianjie Coffee, there are six signs that can represent the origin of Blue Mountain Coffee, such as Memphis River Embankment Central Factory (M.B.C.E), Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative Factory (M.H.C.C.T.), Portland Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative Factory (P.X.X.S.H.), Coffee Industry Association (Wallenford), Coffee Industry Association (St. John's Peak) and Lanli (J.A.S). There are also some manor grades that are marked on the barrel.

Blue Mountain Coffee Variety-Iron pickup

The Blue Mountain Coffee introduced by Qianjie Coffee is the coffee bean of the Tieka variety, which is the oldest Arabica subspecies with red copper leaves at the tip, which is called Red Top Coffee. Coffee tree opposite leaves are long oval, smooth leaves, the end of the branch is very long, few branches, and the flowers are white, open at the base of the petiole connecting the branch. The ripe coffee fruit looks like a cherry and is bright red.

At the same time, the taste of iron pickup is elegant, but its physique is weak, its disease resistance is low, and it is easy to be infected with leaf rust. Therefore, the output of coffee beans is low, and there is no way to achieve economic benefits. In recent years, iron cards in Central and South America have been gradually replaced by Kaddura and Kaduai. So the figure of the iron pickup is becoming more and more rare. Blue Mountain Coffee treatment

Before 2020, the blue mountain coffee beans introduced into Qianjie Coffee can only be washed, because the washed coffee beans can best reflect the original flavor of coffee beans, making the flavor of coffee beans cleaner and brighter and reducing miscellaneous smell.

And according to Qianjie Coffee, we know that the washing treatment of Lanshan No.1 coffee beans is to remove the peel, pulp and mucous membrane by washing and fermentation.

On the other hand, farms that use the washing method must build washing ponds and be able to introduce an endless supply of running water. During the treatment, first remove the peel and pulp and let it ferment for 18 hours, then put the mellow beans into the pool and pass them back and forth, using the friction of the beans and the power of running water to wash the coffee beans until smooth and clean. After washing, at this time, the coffee beans are still wrapped in the pericarp with a moisture content of 50%. They must be dried to reduce the moisture content to 12-14%, otherwise they will continue to be mellow, moldy and rotten. After that, the coffee beans are screened and stored in a special warehouse. These procedures must be strictly mastered, otherwise, the quality of the coffee will be affected.

But in 2020, Blue Mountain began to launch the sun blue mountain coffee beans, this move is also for innovation, in order to adapt to the development of the times to make changes, but to change the treatment, it will certainly change its flavor structure. This is why Qianjie Coffee recommends washed coffee beans every time it introduces coffee beans in a certain producing area, because washing best represents the flavor of the producing area.

These are the three factors that determine the flavor of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans sorted out by Qianjie Coffee. Next, Qianjie Coffee will come to Science Pop Qianjie to introduce this Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee bean.

Front Street Coffee Jamaica washed Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans

Country: Jamaica

Producing area: blue Mountain (Clifton Manor)

Altitude: 1310m

Variety: iron pickup

Treatment: washing treatment

Flavor: sweet brown sugar and sour berries on the palate, with nutty cocoa in the middle and back, creamy and layered, with walnut aromas in the finish.

Front Street Coffee Jamaica Sun Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee beans

Country: Jamaica

Producing area: blue Mountain (Clifton Manor)

Altitude: 1310m

Variety: iron pickup

Treatment: washing treatment

Flavor: the entrance has dark chocolate, nutty flavor, high cleanliness, very bright, good mellow thickness, sweet and sour balance.

Clifton Manor

Qianjie Coffee introduced these two Blue Mountain Coffee from Clifton Manor, the oldest manor in the Blue Mountains, and it is also the only one with a "tropical rain forest" certification in Jamaica, which is not so easy to obtain. Because of the farms that meet the standards set by the Rainforest Alliance, the Alliance will protect the farm and its surrounding ecosystems and restrict the use of pesticides. And the evaluation of waste management and other benchmarks, only through the evaluation and certification of coffee, can be called "rainforest alliance certified coffee". And this is enough to prove how strong the estate is.

The sign of rainforest certification is a green frog, so the barrel of Blue Mountain Coffee with this green frog must have come from Clifton Manor, and this is one of the ways to distinguish between real and fake Blue Mountain Coffee.

How can Blue Mountain Coffee tell the difference between true and false?

Just as Qianjie Coffee said above, Blue Mountain Coffee is expensive because its output is scarce, which has attracted the attention of many unscrupulous and mercenary profiteers, which has led to a lot of fake Blue Mountain flavor coffee in the boutique market. instead of authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, how on earth can we identify the real Blue Mountain coffee beans? Three standards have been sorted out for the previous street coffee to teach coffee fans to identify genuine and fake Blue Mountain coffee.

(1) Certificate of quality issued by the Jamaican Coffee Agency

(2) the authorized sales certificate issued by the blue mountain coffee manufacturer. (blue Mountain Coffee is distributed by 4 processing producers licensed by the Jamaican government and exported by 16 licensed exporters)

(3) Certificate of origin of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

Secondly, as mentioned in the front street above, only coffee beans grown above 2000m in Jamaica can be called Blue Mountain Coffee, and Blue Mountain coffee beans are graded according to the size and quality of coffee beans. Of course, different grades also determine different prices, and then Qianjie will introduce the grading standards of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee beans to coffee fans.

Grading of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

Blue Mountain Coffee is divided into four grades in terms of quality; from top to bottom, NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and PB,PB are round beans. The Blue Mountain coffee bean of Qianjie Coffee is the coffee bean of Blue Mountain No.1, it is also known as the best of Blue Mountain Coffee, so it is also the most expensive one of Blue Mountain Coffee. For example, the Blue Mountain Coffee introduced by Qianjie Coffee is the highest level of Blue Mountain.

Blue Mountain one is planted in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, which is as high as 2000-2256m above sea level. Because the coffee tree is located on a dangerous hillside, with few yields, good quality and harmonious taste, it also has appropriate sour, bitter, fragrant, mellow and sweet taste, so it is recognized as the best by coffee fans all over the world. Naturally, the price of Blue Mountain No.1 becomes the highest of all Blue Mountain coffee.

In addition to altitude, the grading of Blue Mountain coffee beans also needs to screen for defect rates, such as the following criteria:

The above is the relevant information about Blue Mountain Coffee in Qianjie, and Qianjie makes a large number of baking cup test data before each new bean is tasted for coffee fans. In order to get one of the most delicious roasting and brewing data for coffee fans to taste the best flavor of coffee, then Qianjie will share the brewing data of Qianjie to washing Blue Mountain and Sun Blue Mountain to coffee fans.

Data sharing of brewing coffee beans in the front street of Jamaica Blue Mountain

KONO filter cups are used to brew Blue Mountain Coffee in the front street. Because it brings out a more round and mellow taste. But the exhaust effect of KONO filter cup is relatively poor.

Cooking parameters:

15 grams of powder

Filter cup: KONO

Powder / water ratio: 1:15

Degree of grinding: BG#6W

Water temperature: 86 ℃

Flushing and cooking technique: segmented extraction.

Steam 30 grams of water for 30 seconds, pour water into the center of the small flow to 125 grams, continue water injection to 225 grams when the water level is about to be exposed to the powder bed, remove the filter cup when the water level is about to expose the powder bed, and the extraction time is 2: 00 ". Comparison of cooking flavor of blue mountain coffee beans:

[sun Blue Mountain] the entrance has a sweet taste of brown sugar with sour berries, a nutty cocoa flavor in the middle and back, a creamy taste, rich and obvious layers, and a walnut aroma in the finish.

[washed Blue Mountain] the entrance has dark chocolate, nutty flavor, high cleanliness, very bright, good mellow thickness, sweet and sour balance.

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