What is Blue Mountain Coffee? How does Blue Mountain Coffee taste for whom?

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When I was not exposed to coffee, I had already heard of Blue Mountain Coffee. Blue Mountain coffee gives people the feeling that it is very advanced, is a coffee in the advanced products, obviously, this statement is correct. Because Blue Mountain Coffee is really the best of the best. In the past, it may have been difficult to drink a cup of authentic Blue Mountain coffee, but now, it is obviously much easier than before ~ is a good coffee for all consumers to taste.

In Qianjie Coffee, 158 yuan/100 grams of Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 coffee is very popular, because the taste of Blue Mountain coffee is the most fragrant and mellow in the world, with a balanced flavor of sour and bitter, making him a definition of good coffee "grandfather."

Blue Mountain coffee has a lot to do with the environment and variety in which it is grown. Let's first look at why Blue Mountain Coffee is a boutique coffee.

There are a lot of Blue Mountain Coffee on the market, so which Blue Mountain Coffee is authentic? Why do you say that?

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. Blue Mountain peak elevation of 2256 meters, is the highest peak in the Caribbean, is also 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 Bean, and also created the highest price coffee in the world. This kind of coffee has all the characteristics of good coffee, not only the taste is rich and mellow, but also because the sweet, sour and bitter flavors of coffee are perfectly matched, so there is no bitterness at all, only moderate and perfect sourness. Generally, they are consumed as a single item, but due to the extremely low output and extremely expensive price, coffee is generally prepared with similar taste on the market.

Why is Blue Mountain Coffee so pure? Front Street learned that because Blue Mountain coffee trees all grow on rugged hillsides, the picking process is very difficult, and non-local skilled women workers simply cannot do it. It's important to pick coffee beans that are ripe, as immature or overripe can affect the quality of coffee. The beans are shelled the same day and allowed to ferment for 12-18 hours. Coffee beans are then washed and sifted. After that, the drying process must be carried out on concrete floor or thick blanket until the humidity of coffee beans drops to 12%-14%. Then they are stored in special silos. When needed, it is taken out and roasted, and then ground into powder. These procedures must be strictly controlled, otherwise, the quality of coffee will be affected.

History of Blue Mountain Coffee

In 1717, King Louis XV of France ordered coffee to be grown in Jamaica. In the mid-1920s, Nicholas, governor of Jamaica, ordered coffee to be grown in Jamaica. Nicholas Lawes imported Arabica seeds from Martinique and began planting them in St. Andrew. To this day, St. Andrew's is one of the top three growing regions for Blue Mountain coffee in Jamaica, along with Portland and St. Thomas. Within eight years, Jamaica exported more than 375 tons of pure coffee. Coffee production peaked in 1932, harvesting more than 15000 tons of coffee.

The Government of Jamaica established the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board in 1950 to establish quality standards for Jamaica coffee and oversee the implementation of quality standards to ensure the quality of Jamaica coffee. The Commission awards a special official seal to Jamaica's exports of green and roasted coffee and is the world's highest national coffee authority. At present, Mavis Bank Coffee Factory(M.B.C. F), Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative Factory (M.H.C.C.T.), Portland Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative Plant (P.X.X.S.H.), Coffee Industry Association (Wallenford), Coffee Industry Association (St. John's Peak) and Blue (J.A. S).

By 1969, the situation had improved, as Japanese loans had improved the quality of production and thus secured the market. By now, the coffee has reached the point of being fanatically loved. By 1981, about 1500 hectares of land in Jamaica had been cleared for coffee, followed by another 6000 hectares. In fact, today's Blue Mountain region is a small area of only 6000 hectares, and it is impossible that all the coffee labeled "Blue Mountain" is grown there. Another 12000 hectares are devoted to growing two other types of coffee: alpine premium coffee and Jamaica premium coffee.

Since Japan has always invested in Jamaica coffee industry, most of the Blue Mountain coffee is now controlled by the Japanese, and they have also obtained the right of first refusal to buy Blue Mountain coffee. In 1992, Jamaica sold 688 tons of Blue Mountain coffee to Japan, 75 tons to the United States and 59 tons to Britain. 90% of Blue Mountain coffee is now purchased by Japanese. Blue Mountain coffee is now in short supply, regardless of price, since the rest of the world can only get 10 percent of Blue Mountain coffee.

Blue Mountain Coffee Varieties

Blue Mountain Coffee is a coffee with an ancient bloodline varieties-iron pickup. Among the current coffee varieties, there are very few ancient varieties. However, even Blue Mountain Coffee with the blood of Tiepika was not all true Blue Mountain Coffee. Only those grown at certain high altitudes could be called true Blue Mountain Coffee and qualified to be crowned King.

Tin card is a distinctive variety, it is probably the most easily recognized variety of coffee varieties. The iron pickup is conical in shape and grows with vertical trunks up to 5 meters tall. This height means that the distances between branches and nodes on the same branch are longer than in other varieties.

The lateral branches form an angle of 50 to 80° with the vertical trunk. The trunk and branches are relatively thin, the leaves, fruit and green beans are usually elongated, the bud tips of the young leaves are distinctive bronze, and the leaves of the iron pickup variety are smoother and less wavy than other arabica varieties. Typical Typica fruits are bright red when ripe.

One of the unique signs of iron pickup is that the top leaves are bronze, the beans are larger, pointed oval or thin pointed, so it is also known as "red top coffee". Iron pickup varieties are unique to the quiet clean flavor, as well as balanced taste characteristics, taste cleanliness is high, but the fly in the ointment is low yield, planting altitude requirements, and easy to infect leaf rust, and disease resistance is not strong.

Front Street Coffee House Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee is from Clifton Manor and is the only Rainforest Alliance certified coffee estate with a certificate issued by the Jamaica Coffee Board. Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is the only coffee that uses raw beans in wooden barrels, and the barrels will have a green frog logo.

In order to make Blue Mountain coffee more mellow, Qianjie recommends using kono filter cups for brewing. The filter cup is characterized by short ribs. When the filter paper and filter cup are attached, they can form a semi-sealed state, which will slow down the speed of water flow and achieve a period of soaking effect. The brewing parameters and brewing methods used by Qianjie Coffee in daily production of Blue Mountain Coffee are as follows: 88C water temperature, 1:15 powder/water ratio, 15g powder weight, grinding degree (75% through No. 20 standard sieve).

[Washed Blue Mountain Coffee Flavor] The entrance has dark chocolate, nutty flavor, high cleanliness, very bright, good body, sour and bitter balance.

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 "Fresh 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.