What's the taste of Blue Mountain Coffee? is it bitter or sweet? Is the authentic Blue Mountain No.1 coffee good?

Some people say blue mountain coffee is as thin as water; some people say blue mountain coffee is elegant and refined as honey. Qianjie believes that both statements are correct, because Blue Mountain Coffee is actually a kind of crop and will be affected by climate, so the taste will still vary from year to year. Overall, Blue Mountain coffee taste is: rich, balanced, fruity and sour, can meet people's needs, high quality fresh Blue Mountain coffee flavor is particularly long-lasting, as drinkers say-aftertaste. Blue Mountain Coffee combines the unique sour, bitter, sweet and mellow flavors of coffee perfectly to form a strong and attractive elegant flavor that is unmatched by other coffees.

Blue Mountain coffee gives people a feeling of feeling very good, because its flavor is more mellow, smooth, not sour nor bitter, more balanced. But there are many labeled Blue Mountain Coffee on the market, and not all of them are authentic Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. Qianjie believes that such good coffee beans must have strict requirements on planting environment, quality, picking process, selection, etc. Blue Mountain Coffee is one of the most expensive coffees in the world, and it makes sense. As the saying goes: a penny a point goods, is also such a truth.

Front Street and everyone together to understand what is the real Blue Mountain Coffee

The so-called real Blue Mountain refers to Blue Mountain coffee grown in the Blue Mountain Mountains of Jamaica. Only Blue Mountain coffee planted at an altitude of 800 meters or more is authentic Blue Mountain coffee. The Blue Mountain coffee on the Front Street Coffee Bean List is at an altitude of 1310 meters and comes from Clifton Manor. The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of Jamaica Island. They are named 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. The highest peak of Blue Mountain is 2256 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak in the Caribbean and a famous tourist attraction. Located in the coffee belt, it has fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, foggy and rainy all year round (average precipitation is 1980 mm, temperature is about 27 degrees). This climate has created the world-famous Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and also created the highest price coffee in the world.

Blue Mountain coffee is low in caffeine, less than half of other coffees, in line with modern health concepts. The same coffee tree species, whether grown in Hawaii, Kenya, Papua New Guinea or anywhere else with similar climates, did not produce the flavor of Blue Mountain coffee beans.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Production Area

Jamaica's Certified Authentic Blue Mountain Coffee Region refers to the four eastern administrative regions: St Andrew's, St Thomas, St Mary's and Portland, which happens to be the foothills across the Blue Mountains. The altitude is 1000-1700 meters and the area is only about 6100 hectares. Only when planted in this area and meeting the altitude of 1000-1700 meters can it be authentic Blue Mountain. Even if the seeds are planted in these four administrative regions but only 500-1000 meters above sea level, they must be downgraded to Jamaica alpine coffee, and if the altitude is lower than 500 meters, they will be classified as Jamaica premium coffee, and the other 1.21 hectares outside this area will not be called blue mountain coffee. Jamaica officials have strict regulations on Blue Mountain coffee, and only 25% of Jamaica coffee qualifies for Blue Mountain.

The Blue Mountain region is a small area of only 6000 hectares, and it is impossible for all the coffee labeled "Blue Mountain" to be grown there. Today Clifton Farms is the largest estate in the area, and by international standards it is also a small-scale plantation, many owned by smallholders whose families have worked the land for two centuries. Front Street Coffee considers Clifton Farm's Blue Mountain One to be excellent by comparison and can be regarded as one of the outstanding representatives of Blue Mountain Coffee. Blue Mountain Coffee is the only coffee producing area that uses raw beans in wooden barrels so far, and other coffee exports are made in sacks.

Blue Mountain Coffee Varieties

Front Street Coffee introduced Blue Mountain Coffee as an iron-pickup variety of coffee beans. Ironhide card is the oldest Arabica species, the leaf tip is bronze, the bean body is oval or thin pointed, the tree body is tall, the branches are slightly inclined, the angle is 50- 70 degrees, called red top coffee. Coffee tree opposite leaves are long oval, leaf surface smooth, terminal branches are very long, few branches, and flowers are white, open at the base of the petiole connecting branches. Elegant flavor, but weak constitution, poor disease resistance, coffee yield per tree is very low fruit quantity. The ripe coffee fruit looks like a cherry and is bright red. But because Jamaica blue mountain coffee disease resistance is weak, yield is low, susceptible to insect attack, so this is also one of the reasons why blue mountain coffee is expensive.

The Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 coffee beans sold by Front Street Coffee House have the certificate issued by Jamaica Coffee Bureau. In addition, the barrel packaging Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans will have the logo of a green frog. This is Front Street Coffee's special selection of rainforest certified production Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 Coffee Estate, namely Clifton Farm. Moreover, Jamaica is the only producing area that uses wood barrel raw beans. There is also the most iconic Blue Mountain flavor. The real Blue Mountain is very rich in aroma. The taste is balanced and there is no sense of any flavor being prominent or lacking. While authentic Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 coffee prices will be higher than other coffee, Front Street Coffee believes that the most important reasons are three main points: small quantity, good flavor, strict quality control, so creating the world's highest price coffee.

Before this year, Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee had only been washed. The peel, pulp and mucous membrane were removed by washing and fermentation. Farms that use water washing must build water washing tanks and be able to introduce a continuous flow of fresh water. When processing, first remove the peel pulp, let it ferment for 12-18 hours, then put the beans into the pool, move back and forth, and use the friction of the beans and the power of running water to wash the coffee beans smooth and clean. After washing, at this time, coffee beans are still wrapped in the endocarp, the moisture content of 50%, must be dried to reduce the moisture content to 12-14%, otherwise they will continue to mellow, mildew corruption. Coffee beans are then screened and stored in special silos, procedures that must be strictly followed, otherwise the quality of the coffee will be affected.

Blue Mountain coffee is not only washed, but also a batch of sun-dried blue mountain coffee on the front street. Of course, it is also certified for export by the Jamaica Coffee Bureau.

In fact, the production of this sun-dried Blue Mountain coffee is also very difficult, before why there will be only water washing method, it is because washing is to ensure the essence of the Blue Mountain flavor, and change the treatment method, it will certainly change its flavor structure. This is also why the ration bean coffee series of Front Street is almost always washed, and washing best represents the flavor of the producing area. Of course, Blue Mountain Coffee uses the sun treatment method, more or follow the development of the market, just like Front Street Coffee has also added a sun-dried mantning coffee bean some time ago, which is also different from the traditional wet planing method.

Blue Mountain Coffee Grading Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee comes in three grades: Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica High Mountainin Supreme Coffee Beans, and Jamaica Prime Coffee Beans. Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee are divided into two grades. From quality to points from top to bottom: Blue Mountain No. 1, Blue Mountain No. 2, Mountain No. 1, Mountain No. 2, Jamaica coffee. From the top to the bottom of the quality points are: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and PB, PB is round beans. According to CIB standards, the basic standards of NO.1 blue mountain raw beans are beans with more than 17 meshes, defect rate less than 3%, moisture content about 13%, etc.

The best Blue Mountain coffee beans are NO.1 peaberry, also known as pearl beans, which are carefully selected small round beans from products at an altitude of 2100 meters. Very intense aromas with persistent fruity notes; full grain.

Blue Mountain coffee is low in caffeine, less than half of other coffees, in line with modern health concepts. The same coffee tree species, whether grown in Hawaii, Kenya, Papua New Guinea or anywhere else with similar climates, did not produce the flavor of Blue Mountain coffee beans.

Let's take a look at how Blue Mountain Coffee is brewed and how hand-brewed coffee tastes.

Front Street Coffee Brewing Advice

For coffee brewing, Qianjie recommends brewing with freshly roasted coffee beans to maximize the rich flavor of coffee. Front Street Coffee ships coffee beans that are roasted within 5 days, because Front Street knows that the freshness of coffee beans has a great impact on flavor. Front Street Roasters 'motto is "Freshly Roast Good Coffee," so that every customer who orders coffee receives the freshest coffee. Coffee has a growing period of 4-7 days, so when the customer gets it, the flavor is at its best.

Of course, there are also some customers who need the help of the front street to grind the powder, which does not matter, but the front street reminds that the coffee beans are ground in advance, and they need to be brewed in time. If they have been ground into coffee powder, they do not need to raise the beans again. Because during the transportation process, the pressure generated by carbon dioxide in the package can also make the coffee flavor mellow, so you can immediately brew a cup of coffee after receiving the coffee powder.

At the same time, the coffee powder oxidizes faster after contacting the air, that is to say, the flavor of the coffee will disperse faster, and the flavor of the coffee will not be very good. Therefore, Qianjie recommends buying whole beans and grinding them now, so as to better taste the flavor of coffee.

Filter cup: Kono filter cup, water temperature: 88℃, powder amount: 15g, powder-water ratio: 1:15, grinding degree: medium fine grinding (Chinese standard No.20 sieve pass rate 75%) The use of segmented extraction, with 2 times the amount of coffee powder water for stewing, that is, 30 grams of water stewing for 30 seconds, and the reason for the need for stewing process, is to allow coffee powder to exhaust the internal carbon dioxide gas, so that the latter stage of extraction is more stable. Water is injected into the filter cup by small water flow in a circle until 125 grams, and then water is injected into the filter cup until 225 grams. After the water drops in the filter cup are finished, the filter cup is removed. The extraction time is 200 "from the beginning of water injection. Next, shake the whole cup of coffee evenly and pour it into the cup to taste it.

[Front Street Sunlight Blue Mountain Coffee] Light berry acid, reminiscent of black plum and mulberry, overall balance, dark chocolate and nutty flavor, with a slight fermentation. [Qianjie washed blue mountain coffee] dark chocolate, nutty flavor, creamy smooth taste, sweet and sour balance

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