Introduction to the characteristics of authentic Blue Mountain No.1 Coffee producing area how to cook Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee?

Blue Mountain Coffee Bean is a world-famous and expensive coffee bean, and the prices of the products marked "Blue Mountain Coffee" on the market vary from dozens to hundreds to thousands of yuan. Therefore, many friends are worried about buying fake products and tell you how to distinguish between authentic blue mountain coffee beans on the previous street.

What are Blue Mountain Coffee beans?

What we call Blue Mountain Coffee beans are produced in the central area of the Blue Mountain Mountains of Jamaica. Jamaica is located on a small island in the Caribbean Sea. On the southwest side of the island, there is the highest mountain range (2256 meters), because when the sun shines directly on the sea, the peak reflects the blue color of the sea, so it is named "Blue Mountain".

Jamaica first began to grow coffee in the 18th century, but the real Blue Mountain Coffee began to focus on cultivation in the mid-20th century, when Jamaica planned to develop the coffee industry as a pillar of its economic development. As a result, the Government established the Jamaica Coffee Industry Committee to develop quality standards for Jamaican coffee and to monitor the implementation of quality standards to ensure the quality of Jamaican coffee.

Jamaica is the only country in the world that has a government coffee regulatory agency-Jamaica Coffee Industry Authority (CIB), which belongs to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Jamaica. The function of CIB is planting technical guidance, processing training, fair trade, quality supervision and a series of things about the quality and brand of Jamaica Blue Mountain. The members of the board of directors of CIB are all owners of more than a certain amount of plantation estates in Jamaica (due to the transfer of industry, the newly certified Blue Mountain Manor in Jamaica requires an area of more than 50 hectares). CIB stipulates that only the blue mountain coffee beans produced in the 910m producing area of Jamaica Blue Mountain can be called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. According to the bean size, the grades are NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and hand-selected PB. Among them, the basic standard of NO.1 Blue Mountain raw beans is beans with more than 17 mesh, defect rate less than 3%, moisture content about 13%, and so on. In addition, so far, the raw beans of Blue Mountain Coffee have been treated only by washing, without the sun (a batch of sun-dried blue mountains came out in 2020) and other treatments.

So the authentic Blue Mountain Coffee should be coffee beans over 910m from the Jamaican Blue Mountain Mountains, although CIB does not say so in the official documents, they use a different language to express this meaning: in the Jamaican Blue Mountains, the coffee grown in the planting area after JACRA certification and inspection is the real Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. The lowest elevation in this certified area is about 910m (3000 feet).

Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans are divided into NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and PB,PB refers to the selected round beans, the size is 14-15 mesh, the last belongs to NO.1, that is, we call Blue Mountain one coffee, the size is 17-18 mesh, generally sold in the market is mainly Blue Mountain one coffee beans.

Blue Mountain raw beans are all packed in 15kg, 30kg and 70kg standard buckets, each with the estate information, production batch number and barrel number registered by the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Industry Authority (CIB). The lid is covered with a black ink emblazoned with the LOGO pattern of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee and a number indicating the grade of beans inside. There will also be a uniform printed circular certificate of products in the barrel, which is basically the same caliber as the lid.

With the application of new technology, in recent years, when the raw beans of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee are exported, a green grain insurance bag will be added to the bucket to maintain the moisture content of raw coffee beans. Jamaica is the last country in the world that still uses traditional wooden barrels to transport coffee.

How to identify the true and false blue mountain coffee beans

At present, the Jamaican coffee shop on the market can issue certificates for all exported Blue Mountain coffee.

There are three types of certificates:

(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

The quality certificate indicates the time and quantity. The Jamaica Coffee Bureau randomly selects a package from the Blue Mountain Coffee for inspection, and issues a certificate if the conditions of the Blue Mountain Coffee are met.

The blue mountain coffee beans sold in the former street, for example, are selected from the Clifton farm, which is located in St. Andrew's parish and has been in operation for more than 200 years. The front street has a certificate issued by the Clifton farm to prove that the blue mountain coffee beans sold on the front street are produced at Clifton Farm in Jamaica.

Front street coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans

Origin: Clifton Farm in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica

Altitude: 1300 m

Variety: iron pickup

Treatment: washing treatment

How do blue mountain coffee beans taste good?

In brewing Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans, Kono filter cup is recommended in the front street. Because it can improve the mellow taste of coffee beans.

The amount of powder is 15g per person, and the selected coffee beans are recommended to be kept for 4-7 days (with the baking date as the first day), so that the flavor of the coffee will be better. In terms of the degree of grinding of coffee, the grinding degree of brewing blue mountain coffee is a little thicker than that of light roasted coffee beans, because the deep roasting of blue mountain coffee beans will make its structure looser and more likely to absorb water and release coffee substances. if it is ground to the thickness of shallow roasted beans, it is easy to rinse out the bitter taste; if it is thicker, it will make the coffee as thin and tasteless as water. The thickness is 70% of the pass rate of the No. 20 screen. In terms of water temperature, Qianjie recommends using a water temperature of 87-88 ℃ for cooking. Many of the reasons for the bitter smell come from the high temperature of the water. Of course, too low water temperature will also make coffee tasteless.

In terms of the proportion of flavored water, the Qianjie Association recommends 1:15, although some flushing methods suggest using a proportion of powdered water at 1:13 or less, so that the drink will be more rich. However, this kind of practice of reducing the powder-to-water ratio is also partly due to avoiding the bitterness at the end, and accordingly, it will also have an impact on the aftertaste. Qianjie believes that as long as a good grasp of the relationship between water temperature and grinding degree, the use of 1:15 powder can better reflect the overall flavor senses of Blue Mountain coffee. The brewing method uses the commonly used three-stage water injection method, which is divided into three stages to better show the mellow taste of golden Manning coffee and the sweetness of caramel. The specific distribution of water injection is the first stage of steaming water injection 30ml, this stage of water injection all wet coffee powder, exhaust, in order to better extract coffee flavor substances, the second stage injected 100ml, this section mainly flushed out the golden foam of blue mountain coffee powder. In the last stage, 95ml is injected into the soft center, which can improve the sweetness of the coffee, showing a thick and mellow taste as a whole, and the sweetness of caramel is balanced with the flavor of chocolate and nuts.

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