Jamaica coffee beans| Blue Mountain Region Clifton Manor Blue Mountain One Iron Pickup Coffee Bean Introduction

In North America, there are many countries that grow coffee and are very famous, such as Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica and so on. Among them, the Blue Mountain Coffee of Jamaican Coffee has a high reputation, low output and a long history.

Jamaica

Jamaica is located in the northwest of the Caribbean Sea, is an island country, east across the Jamaica Strait and Haiti, is the third largest island in the Caribbean Sea. In the coastal areas, there are alluvial plains, mountains in the east, hills and limestone plateaus in the middle and west, developed lava landforms, lack of surface runoff and caves.

Jamaica has a tropical rainforest climate. The rainy season is from May to June, September to November, and the dry season is from December to March of the following year. The north-central region is rich in rainfall, the temperature is generally between 22 and 32 degrees, and the annual average temperature is 27 degrees. It is located in the earthquake zone, with fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, humid climate, foggy and rainy all the year round. This climate has created the world-famous Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.

Blue Mountain Coffee producing area

The Blue Mountain range is located in eastern Jamaica, at an altitude of 1000-1700 meters. It is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. When the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the sea, and the peak reflects the blue mountain light of the sea, hence its name. The Blue Mountain is a volcanic mountain, and the coffee growing belt of the Blue Mountain has fertile volcanic soil, fresh air and humid climate, foggy and rainy all the year round, which makes the world-famous Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. And the area is planted with Blue Mountain iron trucks, which have evolved to have better disease resistance than ordinary iron trucks after more than 200 years.

The Government of Jamaica has always attached great importance to the development of the coffee industry and passed a decree in 1891 to teach producers knowledge about coffee cultivation in order to improve quality and improve infrastructure to enable coffee to be centrally processed and graded. The Central Coffee Clearing House (Central Coffee Clearing House) was also established in 1944, and all coffee must be approved by it before it can be exported. In addition, the Jamaica Coffee Industry Council (The Jamaica Coffee Industry Board, referred to as CIB) was established in 1950, but the organization merged with other Jamaican commodity agencies in 2018 to form JACRA (Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Authority), and every barrel of Blue Mountain coffee beans must now be subject to quality control through JACRA. When it was founded, it also promulgated the "Coffee Industry Supervision Law", delineating the world-famous "Blue Mountain Coffee growing area". According to the law, the growing areas of the Blue Mountains are located in the four areas of St.Andrew, St.Thomas, Portland and St.Mary. Only those varieties of coffee grown in this area at elevations between 915m and 1700 m can be named as Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee (Jamaica Blue Mountain).

Clifton Manor

Coffee was grown and produced at Clifton Manor as early as the mid-18th century (circa 1750). The coffee planting and processing plant here is located in an average area of 1310 meters, so that coffee trees are planted at sufficient elevations. there is sufficient sunshine and rainfall, as well as mineral-rich volcanic soil to provide good growth conditions.

Blue Mountain Coffee is currently the only coffee exported in barrel packaging, only Jamaica Blue Mountain (No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, PB and Jamaican Alpine (Alpine Top, Alpine PB) can be used, with specifications of 70kg, 30kg and 15kg. Among them, the most advanced Lanshan No. 1 coffee must meet the specifications of more than 17 mesh, the proportion of defective beans can not exceed 2%, and the moisture content is about 10-12.5%. The lid of the barrel is marked with the trademark of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, and other grades of Jamaican coffee are exported in 60 kg gunny bags.

Iron pickup Typica

Both the Typica and Bourbon varieties are among the oldest coffee varieties in existence and originated in southwestern Ethiopia. On the other hand, on the Tieka coffee plant, the leaves are ridged and pointed at the end, the leaves are green and bronze, the distance between the fruit nodes is long, the fruit is mainly red, the coffee bean shape is long, and the whole plant is taller. It is more suitable for planting at high altitude, which is of good quality, but with low yield, and is easy to suffer from leaf rust, nematode and berry disease. at present, tin card is planted in Peru, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica and other countries.

Front Street Coffee Jamaica Clifton Manor Blue Mountain one Coffee Bean production area: blue Mountain Manor: Clifton Manor elevation: 1310 meters varieties: blue Mountain Iron pickup Typica treatment: washing flavor: slightly citrus acid, nutty, chocolate flavor silky overall balance

Qianjie Coffee Lanshan No.1 coffee beans are washed and roasted moderately deep, so that Lanshan No.1 coffee can show a mellow taste and retain soft acidity. The front street will use a KONO filter cup, 1:15 ratio, 90 ℃ of water will be boiled, you can smell the light flowers, the entrance will feel a slight citrus acid, with nutty and cocoa flavor, the taste is smooth and well balanced.

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