What are the characteristics of Blue Mountain Coffee? What grade does Blue Mountain Coffee belong to? Where is it produced?

There is a popular saying on the Internet that Blue Mountain Coffee is like a Rolls-Royce in a car and a Rolex in a watch. people are bound to be associated with high-quality adjectives such as the best, the most expensive and the rarest. Even in the 21st century, its popularity remains the same, and we can verify this view from the relevant legends seen on major media websites. Since Jamaica's contract with Japan expired in 2008, Blue Mountain Coffee has no longer been monopolized by the Japanese. There are more and more coffee shops selling Blue Mountain Coffee offline, and everyone has a chance to taste the delicacy of Blue Mountain Coffee. But at the moment when we drank the Blue Mountain Coffee, most people's illusions about it were completely shattered. Oh, my God, this is different from the Blue Mountain I imagined, except for a smooth point, isn't it just an ordinary cup of deep-roasted coffee? As for turning it into some kind of coffee emperor?

Indeed, when we look at the taste of Blue Mountain Coffee from today's point of view, it is not outstanding. There is neither the excellent fragrance of flowers that amaze everyone, nor the plentiful and diversified levels. But if we press the back button to reverse the picture and look back at the famous history of Blue Mountain Coffee, then you can know that its fame is really well-deserved.

At that time, the name of coffee is very straightforward, no matter what kind of coffee, will be directly named after the place of production, because the concept of boutique coffee has not yet begun to spread, so people will pay more attention to the region than the variety. And so is Blue Mountain Coffee! Blue Mountain Coffee is naturally produced from Blue Mountain Coffee. Blue Mountain, located in the eastern part of the island country of Jamaica, has been growing coffee for nearly 300 years. But what we need to know is that Blue Mountain Coffee does not become the supreme being on its debut like a genius born out of nowhere. It was only when he woke up that he was able to achieve the glory of this life.

In 1728, the Governor of Jamaica, Nicholas Lawes, obtained a tin pickup plant from the Governor of Martinique and planted it in the high-altitude mountains of St. Andrews. Under the excellent island climate, several iron pickup plants grew smoothly and soon began to blossom and bear fruit. However, coffee was not a major economic plant at that time, but a "substitute" invested by the British in order to give full play to their value in the mountains that could not grow sugarcane. In addition, Britain levied a very high tax on coffee to encourage the tea trade. As a result, coffee was not widely grown in Jamaica at first. It was not until 1790, when Britain reduced taxes on coffee, that the coffee industry in Jamaica began to grow. With its excellent climate blessing and strict management, Jamaica has become one of the largest coffee growers in just a few decades. At that time, Jamaica had more than 600 coffee farms, with an annual output of 15000 tons.

By 1834, slavery was abolished in England. For a variety of reasons, some of those who have regained their freedom have made Jamaica their new home. They reclaimed the wasteland and became self-reliant. And the land requisitioned by many coffee farms has also been returned to the original farmers, and they have regained the control of the land. Because sugar cane was more expensive than coffee at that time, many places where coffee was originally grown were changed to sugar cane plantations. But as the front street said, some places are not suitable for growing sugar cane, coupled with the fact that most people are inexperienced, so not only coffee, but also Jamaican sugar cane is beginning to show a cliff decline. As a result, for a long time, the development of liberated Jamaica could not be compared with that of colonization.

(photo from the Internet) but the Jamaican government did not intend to give up the coffee industry, so in 1891, the government sent professional planting teachers to provide local farmers with guidance on coffee cultivation and raw bean processing. Hope to revive the glory of the coffee industry that year. But unfortunately, this did not play a big role. So the Jamaican government focused on improving the quality of coffee, trying to find a new breakthrough in quality. So in 1948, the Jamaican government established the Coffee Industry Management Institute, whose main business is to manage the quality of all raw beans exported by Jamaica and to revive the export business. Then they found through cup tests that coffee produced in some parts of the Blue Mountains would be richer in taste and of higher quality than coffee produced in other locations. As a result, the Coffee Industry Supervision Law was promulgated, dividing the planting area for Blue Mountain Coffee.

The regulatory law says that only iron card varieties grown in the districts of St.Andrew, St.Thomas, Portland and St.Mary and at elevations between 3000 and 5500 feet (1700 meters) can be sold under the name "Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee". Coffee grown outside this range is divided into alpine coffee and Jamaican selection coffee. In 1950, the coffee industry management institute in Jamaica was upgraded to the Jamaica Coffee Industry Council (The Jamaica Coffee Industry Board), referred to as CIB.

After the establishment of CIB, it formally implemented the Coffee Industry Supervision Law, and made a very strict grading system for coffee grown in the Blue Mountain area, so as to guarantee the quality of Blue Mountain coffee beans! The evaluation items include: coffee bean size, color, evenness, defect rate, water content, and cup test score. According to the grade, it is divided into No.1, 2, 3 and PB. The details are as follows!

Yes, this is the turning point when Blue Mountain Coffee reaches the top! It was more than 20 years before Ms. Erna Knudsen released the concept of boutique coffee (released in 1974). In other words, when the major coffee producing areas have not yet begun to pay attention to the quality of coffee, Blue Mountain Coffee has already achieved the standard of fine coffee. Under such fine management, Blue Mountain Coffee has a crushing grade compared to other coffees. (Lanshan No.1 raw bean)

With the same deep roasting, other coffees are basically bitter and exciting. Only the Blue Mountain Coffee shows a strong flavor, sweet and sweet, soft sour taste and a long finish. Even if this distinction has been reduced after the release of the concept of boutique coffee, other coffees are still a long way from Blue Mountain Coffee, because the level of sophisticated management is completely different. So we can know that Blue Mountain Coffee was a well-deserved coffee emperor at that time (it also has something to do with Japanese marketing). Although the tide of the times has pushed people's preference for coffee to the shallow roasting of flowers and fruits, you will find that the degree of baking used by the merchants selling Blue Mountain coffee on the market is, as always, the most traditional and classic deep roasting. The same is true on the front street.

People do not deliberately use shallow roasting of Blue Mountain Coffee in order to cater to the pursuit of flavor, not because of the restriction of CIB (because the treaty will limit the extent to which buyers can roast Blue Mountain), but to interpret an original "coffee flavor" in the modern era of shallow roasting. What was the taste of the original coffee?

Maybe you can easily explain all kinds of flower fragrance and fruit rhyme. But the only thing is that I can't tell what the taste of coffee is. And Blue Mountain Coffee can be used as this "indicator", deep-roasted its taste is the most standard "coffee flavor".

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