Blue Mountain Coffee beans Italian Coffee beans differ from Blue Mountain No.1 Coffee beans to make Italian concentrated flavor

A friend asked Qianjie, what's the difference between Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee and espresso? The biggest difference is that Lanshan No. 1 coffee is a single product coffee beans, using the iron card (launched in 2020 Rosa) coffee varieties, generally using hand-brewed coffee extraction. Espresso, on the other hand, uses blended espresso beans (you can also use individual coffee beans) to extract espresso liquid by pressurized coffee machine.

What is Blue Mountain one Coffee?

Not all coffee replanted in Blue Mountain can become Blue Mountain Coffee. The Blue Mountains are located in the east of the island of Jamaica. Only the blue mountains planted in this area at an altitude of 1000-1700m are authentic blue mountain coffee.

The three Blue Mountain coffees currently on shelves on Qianjie come from Clifton Farm, which began to grow and produce coffee as early as the mid-18th century (around 1750). The coffee planting and processing area here falls at an average of 4300 feet (1310.64 meters), with sufficient altitude, mild afternoon cloud shade, ample sunshine and mineral-rich planting soil to provide good growth conditions for coffee plants. it also prolongs the ripening time of coffee fruits.

Lanshan No.1 coffee variety

The most traditional Blue Mountain Coffee is Iron pickup Coffee. Blue Mountain Iron Card was transplanted from Martinique to Blue Mountain in Jamaica in the 1820s. After more than 200 years, Blue Mountain Iron pickup has evolved better disease resistance, especially better resistance to fruit rot than ordinary iron pickup. But planted in the blue mountain iron card across the planting area of 1000-1700, it will not be able to replicate its sweet and fragrant characteristics.

In 2020, Clifton Farm launched Blue Mountain Rose Summer Coffee. For Rose Summer Coffee, I believe everyone stays on the characteristic of rich floral fragrance, but this feature must be planted above 1500m above sea level to form. For Clifton Manor 1310m above sea level to plant rose summer coffee, the front street through the cup test that the flowers produced here is not as obvious as everyone imagined, only slightly white flowers. The flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee is more balanced, and the fragrance of flowers does not occupy the C position.

Blue Mountain No.1 Coffee Bean treatment

Before 2019, Blue Mountain Coffee could only be treated with water. The most important feature of washing method is that the whole coffee is very clean, and the good or bad of a bean can be best reflected by washing method. Starting in 2019, Clifton Farm began "reform and innovation" with the introduction of sun-treated Blue Mountain Coffee. The flavor of blue mountain coffee treated with water washing is very balanced, while the sun treatment shows more juice and sour quality. The coffee beans treated by both methods have more advantages, and there is no saying which is good or which is bad.

How to make Blue Mountain Coffee?

Qianjie uses the most traditional washed Blue Mountain Iron pickup Coffee for brewing demonstration. Parameters: 15g coffee powder, the ratio of powder to water is 1:13 (the ratio of powder to liquid is about 1:11), the water temperature is 88 ℃, the degree of grinding: the passing rate of standard sieve 20 is 60%.

Cooking technique: 30 grams of water for steaming for 30 seconds, and then small water center slowly circle outward injection of 100 grams, that is, the electronic scale shows 130 grams. Then when the powder layer drops to 1 stroke, 65 grams of water is injected into 2 places, reaching a total of 195 grams of water. After all the coffee liquid of the filter cup flows into the next pot, remove the filter cup and end the extraction. The total cooking time is 1 minute 52 seconds.

Washed blue mountain iron pickup coffee brewing flavor: clean taste, chocolate and nut flavor, acidity, sweetness and bitterness reach a balanced point.

What is espresso?

Espresso "espresso" is a coffee that is quickly extracted from Italy under high pressure. the traditional capacity of a single cup of espresso is about one ounce. Espresso is divided into three parts, namely, fat, main body and core.

What coffee beans are used in espresso?

Qianjie Cafe uses warm sun to mix coffee beans when making espresso. Blended coffee beans are mixed from a variety of coffee beans, through different proportions and taste of different or similar coffee beans, can make the original single coffee produce distinctive characteristics, unique flavor alone. The espresso beans currently used in Qianjie Cafe are 30% of Ethiopian sun-red cherry coffee beans mixed with Honduran whisky and 70% of Shirley coffee beans fermented. The biggest feature of this coffee bean is that the extracted espresso has a soft acidity and whisky aroma.

How does Qianjie Coffee extract espresso?

Coffee machine: Pegasus E98 espresso machine

Pressure: 9 bar ±2

Temperature: 90.5 ~ 96 °C

Time: 20: 30 sec

Ratio of powder to water: 1. 7: 1. 1: 2.

Powder content: 12g (single espresso) 20g (double espresso)

Extraction concentration: 20ml (single part) 40ml (double part)

Warm sun blend coffee bean extract flavor: obvious acidity, light berry aroma lingering, rich wine and chocolate flavor, comfortable aftertaste.

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