The difference between Blue Mountain Coffee and American Coffee authentic Blue Mountain Coffee beans are the brand of which country

The aroma of coffee can always appease the tired heart of the beating workers. However, I drink too much coffee, but how many dozen workers will know deeply what is Blue Mountain Coffee and what is American Coffee? Next, let Qianjie explain the difference between Blue Mountain Coffee and American Coffee.

What is Blue Mountain Coffee?

Blue Mountain Coffee beans are a kind of individual coffee beans. Blue Mountain Coffee is called Blue Mountain Coffee because Blue Mountain Coffee beans are produced in the Blue Mountain area of Jamaica. The Blue Mountains of Jamaica are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. When the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the blue ocean, and the dazzling blue light is reflected in the Blue Mountains, hence the name "Blue Mountains".

However, not all coffee from the Blue Mountain region can be called Blue Mountain Coffee. Blue Mountain coffee beans are also divided into Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaican Alpine Coffee and Jamaican preferred Coffee according to altitude, and then divided into four grades: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and PB according to the size and quality of raw coffee beans.

Among them, Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee bean is planted at an altitude of 1000 to 1700 meters, and the raw coffee bean particle size is 17x18 mesh, and the proportion of defective beans is no more than 2%, which is the highest grade of Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee. Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans are of superior quality and are also shown in the price of its Blue Mountain coffee.

Authentic Blue Mountain coffee is expensive, the world's top coffee beans grow in fertile volcanic soil, the environment temperature is suitable, has a strong nutty flavor, taste balanced and mellow. Blue Mountain coffee beans are generally used as hand-brewed coffee, and many friends worry that they will not be able to brew a cup of blue mountain coffee that is balanced between sweet and sour and mellow, so they will go to the shop of Qianjie Coffee to ask the barista in Qianjie for help.

When making Blue Mountain Coffee in Qianjie Coffee, the brewing parameters are as follows:

Filter cup: KONO filter cup

Water temperature: 88 degrees Celsius

Amount of powder: 15g

Ratio of powder to water: 1:15

Grinding degree: 75% of the pass rate of Chinese standard No. 20 screen

In order to highlight the mellow taste of Blue Mountain Coffee, Qianjie recommends using a filter cup with soaking function. The upper part of the KONO filter cup is a smooth cup wall, while the lower part is a short rib. When the filter paper is wet through, it can stick to the wall of the filter cup, and the ribs in the lower part play the role of drainage, so that the coffee powder is fully in contact with the hot water, resulting in more coffee flavor substances. The coffee brewed with KONO filter cup has a great improvement in texture and alcohol thickness compared with Hario V60.

Because the blue mountain coffee beans are roasted at a relatively deep degree, Qianjie uses the Chinese standard 20 sieve pass rate of 75% when grinding the coffee beans. Because the baking depth is deeper, the structure is more loose, and the coffee substance is easier to precipitate, so the grinding degree is thicker than the shallow roasted coffee beans to avoid burning bitterness.

Qianjie will first inject 30 grams of hot water for 30 seconds when brewing blue mountain coffee, and then slowly circle to 125 grams after the end of steaming. When the water level in the filter cup is about to reveal the powder bed, continue to circle and inject water to 225 grams, the total extraction time is about 2 minutes.

After brewing, the Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee on the front street has a strong nutty and dark chocolate flavor, with a balanced sweet and sour taste and a mellow taste.

Front street coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans

Producing area: the Blue Mountains of Jamaica

Manor: Clifton Farm

Altitude: 1310 m

Variety: iron pickup

Treatment method: washing treatment method

Due to the popularity of Blue Mountain Coffee, some merchants will play word games with buyers, and there are many products on the market, such as "Blue Mountain Coffee" and "Blue Mountain blend Coffee". However, this kind of coffee may not even have a real coffee bean from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee bean on the front street comes from the Clifton Farm in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica and has a history of more than 200 years. Qianjie by comparing a number of blue mountain one coffee beans, Clifton farm blue mountain one coffee beans excellent performance, can be used as one of the outstanding representatives of blue mountain coffee.

Blue Mountain Coffee is so far the only coffee producing area that uses buckets of raw beans. In the front street coffee store, there are blue mountain coffee raw bean buckets and Jamaica blue mountain coffee bean certification certificates. If you are curious, you can go to the front street store to find out.

What is American coffee?

American coffee is a kind of Italian coffee, because it is convenient and fast, it only needs to mix the extracted espresso liquid into a certain proportion of water, that is, a cup of American coffee.

Interestingly, American coffee is not invented by Americans, but for Americans. According to wild history, during World War II, American soldiers stationed in Europe could not adapt to Europe's local flavor and rich black coffee, so they added a lot of hot water to dilute it. In order to express its disdain for this practice, it was named Americano, which was translated into Chinese as American coffee.

Because the base of American coffee is espresso, most of the coffee beans used to make espresso are blended beans. Espresso is extracted by squeezing nearly boiling hot water through pressed powder, which is pressed by fine coffee powder, with a high pressure of about 9bar, so that the extracted coffee liquid has a concentrated flavor and a thick taste.

If individual coffee beans are used, some prominent flavors will be magnified to a greater extent, and the originally pleasant acid will be magnified to a sharp acid that is hard to swallow. Therefore, the coffee beans used to make espresso are generally made of two or more individual coffee beans in order to maintain a stable flavor and a balanced taste.

Unlike hand-brewed coffee, espresso pays more attention to overall balance. Qianjie Coffee uses sunflowers and coffee beans to make espresso, which is made of 70% Honduran Shirley and 30% Ethiopian sun-tanned cherries. This sunflower blend in Qianjie has strong flavors of vanilla, cream, fermented wine and berries. With a unique flavor and mellow taste, it can be said to be very suitable for making espresso.

Qianjie Coffee uses sunflower warm sun and bean extract espresso, which is adjusted according to the state of beans every day. In order to highlight the flavor of Shirley coffee beans, use 20 grams of powder and extract 40 grams of coffee liquid, which takes 27 seconds.

When producing hot American coffee, Qianjie Coffee will be mixed with hot water in the ratio of 1% coffee liquid to 4.5% hot water. In this proportion of hot American coffee, can highlight the wine, vanilla, chocolate flavor, mellow taste.

When making iced American coffee, considering that the ice will melt, the ratio of coffee liquid to ice cubes to water is 1: 1 / 2. 5. This proportion of iced American coffee is not too strong at first, and the flavor is not too weak as the ice melts.

The difference between American Coffee and Blue Mountain Coffee

American Coffee and Blue Mountain Coffee is one of the black coffee. Blue Mountain Coffee generally refers to the single coffee produced in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, and the brewing method of single coffee is mostly hand-brewed coffee. American coffee is a kind of espresso, which is based on espresso and mixed with a certain proportion of water or milk.

There is an obvious difference in brewing principle between hand-brewed coffee and espresso. The grinding degree of hand-brewed coffee powder is much thicker than that of Italian coffee powder, and the extraction pressure is lower. The flavor of espresso varies with the beans used in espresso. For example, Qianjie uses sunflower warm sun mix, with 70% of Honduras Shirley, not only with popular taste of nuts, chocolate, but also with strong vanilla, wine aroma.

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