Blue Mountain Coffee Brand ranking Price introduction to the characteristics of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, Grade and Flavor

When chatting with elders who don't drink coffee often on the street, usually the first thing they think of is Blue Mountain Coffee, which is synonymous with "good coffee" in that era. Even if they haven't drunk it, they have heard of Blue Mountain flavor. Then the front street to talk about this famous Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee flavor characteristics.

What does Blue Mountain taste like?

When we enter the keyword "Blue Mountain Flavor" on a well-known online shopping platform, there will be a large number of blends or instant coffee advertised by the name of Blue Mountain. The advertising words of these coffees are generally "mellow, fragrant and sweet." Blue Mountain coffee is sour, sweet, bitter, sweet taste properly blended in a cup of coffee, with a strong attractive aroma and coffee people around the world sought after.

Blue Mountain coffee flavor is so unique, from planting, production, transportation, baking and other aspects can not be ignored, let's talk about how this delicate flavor of blue mountain coffee beans is formed.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Cultivation

Blue Mountian is the longest mountain range in Jamaica. It is located in the east. It has the highest peak in the Caribbean Sea. On sunny days, the mountain is refracted by the light in the sea to form a blue appearance, so it is called Blue Mountain. As a well-known scenic spot, the highest peak of Blue Mountain reaches 2256 meters, attracting many tourists to visit here. In order to protect the local green landscape, the government divides the area above 1700 meters into protected areas, and coffee trees can be planted only below 1700 meters.

Front Street often mentioned in the article, coffee is a very "picky" plant, although many places can survive, but to highlight the flavor of coffee performance must meet its various growth needs, Blue Mountain is one of them. Blue Mountain is located in the volcanic earthquake zone, so there is a lot of fertile volcanic soil here. In addition, the high altitude makes the temperature difference between day and night in the mountains larger. The forest is shrouded in clouds. The rainfall is abundant all year round. Coffee fruits absorb enough nutrients here.

Blue Mountain planted coffee varieties for iron pickup, iron pickup known for elegant sweet and sour taste, but weak, disease resistance is poor, so the yield is less, often abandoned by coffee farmers who want to mass production. Iron pickup varieties were introduced to Blue Mountain in the 18th century and began to be planted. After two hundred years of "grinding", Blue Mountain's iron pickup has developed into a better disease-resistant Arabica variety, which is very suitable for local cultivation and forms a delicate flavor that cannot be easily reproduced elsewhere.

Exquisitely processed Blue Mountain coffee beans

Although the planting area of the whole Blue Mountain is extensive, the real "treasure land" is only 910 meters-1700 meters, located in St Andrew, St Mary, St Thomas and Portland, with a total planting area of 6000 hectares. According to the regulations of the Jamaica Industry Commission, only coffee from this area can be called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee.

Jamaica High Mountain coffee is grown at 460-910 meters, and coffee below 460 meters can only be called Jamaica Supreme. The lower the altitude, the lower the grade of coffee.

The Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans on the Front Street Bean List come from Clifton Manor, the largest in Jamaica, and are grown at an altitude of 1310 meters.

Because coffee trees are grown on relatively rugged slopes, picking is difficult, and Clifton Manor arranges local women who know the terrain to pick coffee cherries at appropriate maturity at high altitudes. The coffee fruits are traditionally washed.

Clifton Manor first picks the coffee fruit for preliminary manual removal of defective beans, removes the outer skin of the coffee with a machine, and then pours it into a pool for fermentation for 12-18 hours, in order to remove the pectin layer of the coffee beans. Then move to a clean water tank for washing for many times, and screen out defective beans for the second time, drain the clean raw beans with shells, spread them on the concrete floor or net bed for drying until the water content of the beans is 10-12%, and finally put them into wooden barrels and store them in a warehouse with constant temperature and humidity.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee beans also have a strict grading system. According to the size of beans and the proportion of defects, they will be divided into four grades: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and Peaberry. The highest grade is NO.1, also known as Blue Mountain No.1. The specifications of coffee beans are between 17 and 18 meshes. The proportion of defective beans cannot be higher than 2%. The overall particles are uniform and full. After careful selection, the number of coffee beans that can be called Blue Mountain No.1 is very rare, and the higher price is reasonable.

Unlike most countries that use green beans in linen bags, Jamaica packs high-quality Blue Mountain No.1 coffee in round barrels, which is one of the conditions for buyers to distinguish between genuine and fake Blue Mountains. The barrel helps insulate the beans from moisture in the air during transportation, thus ensuring that the moisture content of the green beans before roasting is always 11.5%.

Blue Mountain Coffee Beans

Many friends asked Qianjie, Blue Mountain coffee beans are so expensive, I am afraid to spend a lot of money to buy fake, how to identify the authenticity of Blue Mountain coffee beans? What brand of Blue Mountain coffee beans is trustworthy? In this regard, Qianjie said a few points about the identification characteristics of Blue Mountain coffee beans.

(1) Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans are packaged in barrels for export, so when buying coffee beans, you can pay attention to whether the seller has a whole barrel of Blue Mountain barrels. This prevents sellers from using other coffee beans as blue mountain beans.

(2) Buyers of Blue Mountain Coffee beans (first-hand green bean buyers) can apply for Blue Mountain Coffee Bean Certification from Jamaica CIB or Manor, which can also prove that Blue Mountain Coffee beans are authentic.

(3) You can observe the cooked beans. The cooked beans of Blue Mountain No.1 coffee beans should be evenly sized and full.

The brand of Blue Mountain coffee beans is not very important, because any coffee brand selling authentic Blue Mountain coffee beans, its ultimate source of collection channels are Jamaica CIB authorized four processing plants and several independent farms. Therefore, there is no question of which brand gets the better quality of Blue Mountain coffee beans. The important thing is that the real Blue Mountain can be bought according to the cost performance.

Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Flavor

Qianjie believes that in addition to coffee varieties, growing environment, green bean treatment, coffee flavor is largely related to roasting depth. Blue Mountain coffee is a nutty tone with a sour, sweet and bitter balance. In order to restore a more classic blue mountain flavor, Qianjie has selected several moderate and deep baking curves. Through cup test comparison, it is found that the moderate and deep baking is more prominent in chocolate sweetness.

For fine coffee beans like Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee, Qianjie believes that drip black coffee can best enjoy the unique aroma of Blue Mountain. Blue Mountain coffee has a deep roasting degree and a rich and mellow flavor. Front Street baristas will use KONO filter cups to make use of the close fit between filter paper and filter cups to perform immersion extraction in the process of hand brewing coffee, making coffee more concentrated. In addition, to avoid over-extraction, which makes coffee bitter and strong, Front Street uses cooler hot water and coarser grind scales.

The parameters used in brewing all coffee beans in Qianjie are based on freshly roasted coffee beans. Since coffee enters a peak taste period 4-7 days after roasting, the aroma of coffee will gradually disappear over time. Front Street understands the importance of fresh coffee beans, so it ships beans that have been roasted within 5 days. We hope that when you get them, you can brew them at the best time.

Blue Mountain hand flushing parameters: 88 degrees Celsius water temperature, 1:15 powder water ratio, 15g coffee powder, grinding degree (20 standard sieve pass rate 75%), three-stage extraction.

First inject 30g hot water and steam for 30s, inject fine water from the center point and slowly circle to 125g, wait for the water level in the filter cup to drop to about to expose the powder bed and continue to circle to inject water to 225g, the total extraction time is about 2 minutes. Finally, shake the extracted coffee and start tasting it.

Blue Mountain No.1 coffee beans are brewed in Qianjie Street. You can smell caramel aroma during steaming stage. You can taste rich nuts and dark chocolate flavor when drinking. The overall taste is full and the aftertaste is sweet and clear.

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