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Baristas on the front street often receive the question, "what grade does Blue Mountain Coffee belong to?" Qianjie believes that Blue Mountain Coffee is one of the representatives of high-end boutique coffee. In an era when we had only heard of Blue Mountain Coffee but never drank it, Blue Mountain Coffee was a luxury. Because its quantity on the market was so small that supply fell short of demand, the price remained high, and many shoddy coffee appeared frequently. At this time, Qianjie thinks that it is very important to know the true blue mountain coffee.

Authentic Blue Mountain Coffee

The real Blue Mountain Coffee comes from Jamaica Blue Mountains, the Blue Mountain range of Jamaica. The highest elevation of the Blue Mountain is 2256 meters. Coffee is generally grown below 1700 meters and belongs to an ecological reserve. It is precisely because of the local maintenance that Blue Mountain is still a famous tourist destination. Jamaica is located in the tropics, coffee trees are distributed in the Blue Mountains, where the air is fresh and unpolluted, the climate is humid, the temperature is about 27 degrees, and it is cloudy all the year round, which can shade the coffee trees. Coupled with the fertile volcanic soil, it has created ultra-high quality blue mountain coffee beans.

The grade of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

According to the standards of the Jamaica Coffee Industry Commission, Arabica coffee grown between 910m and 1700 m above sea level can only be called Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. The rest of the coffee grown at low elevations can only be called Jamaican Alpine Coffee and Jamaican preferred Coffee.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is also subdivided into No.1, No.2, No.3 and PB according to the size and defect rate of coffee beans. The highest grade is No.1, that is, the particle size of 300g raw coffee bean sample is more than 17 mesh, the defect rate is less than 2%, and the moisture content is about 13%. It looks like the particles are full and uniform.

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee varieties

Jamaica is mostly ridge terrain, the planting area is not large, so the yield is not high, the local government will focus on how to improve the quality of coffee. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is an ancient high-quality Arabica variety of Ironka, which is ideal for growing in a high altitude environment, with pure and clean flavor and balanced taste.

The Ironhide plant is taller than other coffee varieties and has slender branches that extend in all directions. Therefore, these iron pickup plants can not be planted intensively, so that it needs more space for planting, thus leaving less space for other coffee varieties or crops, so that it takes more time and manpower to manage its planting. In addition, the yield of iron pickup is relatively low, and the amount of fruit per coffee tree will be 20-30% less than that of bourbon varieties, which is why many coffee farmers who pursue mass production give up planting iron pickup varieties.

If there are weather disasters, diseases and insect pests and other problems, the output of iron pickup coffee will be very little. Under the reasonable cultivation of the local people, Blue Mountain Coffee shows a sweet flavor and smooth taste on the cup test, and the high return makes the growers feel that it is all worth it.

Blue Mountain Coffee treatment

The Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee on the front street bean list comes from Clifton Manor, which is certified by the Jamaican Coffee Bureau. Clifton Manor has a high-altitude planting environment and a long history of coffee production. Coffee has been produced since the mid-18th century. Blue Mountain Coffee has very mature processing skills. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is generally washed with raw beans.

Farms that use the washing method must build washing ponds and be able to introduce an endless supply of running water, so they are generally larger farms. During the treatment, first remove the peel and pulp and let it ferment for 18 hours, then put the mellow beans into the pool and pass them back and forth, using the friction of the beans and the power of running water to wash the coffee beans until smooth and clean. After washing, the water content of the coffee beans reaches 50%, which must be dried to reduce the moisture content to 12-14%. After that, the coffee beans are screened and stored in a special warehouse. These procedures must be strictly mastered, otherwise, the quality of the coffee will be affected.

Although with the trend of the entire coffee market, there are a small number of sun-dried Blue Mountain Coffee on the market, Qianjie believes that the washed Blue Mountain Coffee can best present the classic Blue Mountain flavor.

Where to buy Blue Mountain Coffee

As a result of the 30-year agreement signed between Jamaica and Japan in the 1960s, in return for the investment help of the Japanese company ucc, 80% of the quota for high-quality Blue Mountain coffee was given to Japan, the peak period was even higher, and the rest was allocated to Europe and the United States. This also makes it difficult to buy real Blue Mountain coffee in other areas, and even if you drink it, it is very expensive. Today, this agreement has expired. Jamaica has allocated the quota of Blue Mountain Coffee to more countries and regions, and many enterprises in our country have signed agreements with Jamaica to directly import Blue Mountain Coffee. It is not difficult to drink real Blue Mountain Coffee in China now.

The Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee bought on the front street is filled with raw beans in a wooden barrel, with words such as "Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee" and "Clifton Manor" printed on the barrel, and a green frog logo certified by the Rainforest Alliance. And a certificate issued by the Jamaican Coffee Bureau.

Front Street Coffee: Jamaica Blue Mountain one Coffee Bean

Producing area: the Blue Mountains of Jamaica

Altitude: 1310m

Treatment: washing

Variety: iron pickup

Flavor: dark chocolate nut cream cocoa

How to drink Jamaica Blue Mountain No.1 Coffee

Like Blue Mountain Coffee, which has a strong aroma and balanced taste, Qianjie believes that black coffee can best present the best Blue Mountain flavor.

Black coffee is coffee without any milk or sugar, such as hand-brewed coffee, American coffee and so on. The right amount of black coffee can not only refresh us, but also help promote human metabolism, effectively decompose body fat, and drinking black coffee after meals can help digestion. Here in front of the street to remind, generally drinking coffee can not be excessive, try to control the amount of 2-3 cups in a day, excessive easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort or palpitations and other reactions.

The following front street according to the store's hand brewing standard to brew a Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee, you can refer to.

The quality of Blue Mountain coffee is very high, but it is also a kind of agricultural products, so the freshness is very important. This includes the freshness of raw coffee beans and the freshness of baked products. Qianjie is currently buying the latest season of Lanshan No. 1 coffee raw beans, shipping are freshly roasted coffee beans within 5 days. Coffee beans enter the best taste period 4-7 days after roasting, and they are usually ready to be cooked and tasted when they are received.

As the flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee tends to be nutty and cocoa, the front street here will choose deep roasting to highlight the more intense aroma of chocolate nuts. Generally, the coffee beans like Blue Mountain are boiled with kono filter cup in Qianjie. When the kono filter cup is glued to the filter paper, the flow rate of the water slows down, and the contact time between hot water and coffee powder increases, forming immersion extraction, which makes the coffee more rich.

Filter cup: KONO

Water temperature: 88 degrees Celsius

Degree of grinding: screening rate of No. 20 standard screen 75%

Ratio of powder to water: 1:15

Amount of powder: 15g

Now wet the KONO filter cup to make the filter paper fit better with the coffee filter cup. Put 15g coffee powder into the water in the sharing pot at the same time and begin to use three-stage extraction. After steaming with 30g water for 30s, start injecting water around the center with a small flow of water until 125g. When the coffee powder layer falls to half the position of the filter cup, start to inject the second section with the same method, until 225g, and the filter cup can be removed when all the dripping is completed.

The taste of the hand-made Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee is dark chocolate and nutty, mellow and smooth, not too strong, clean, with soft acidity, and well balanced as a whole.

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