What is the difference between Blue Mountain coffee in Jamaica and coffee grown in Papua New Guinea?

Typica is one of the most important Arabica coffee varieties in the world. Its characteristic is that the plant is tall, excellent in quality, suitable for planting at high altitude, and can adapt to low temperature environment, but the yield is relatively low, at the same time, it is relatively fragile, easy to infect coffee leaf rust, and the ability to resist disease and insect pests is weak.

In the middle of the 20th century, iron pickup was grown in most coffee farms in Central and South America, but because of its low yield and susceptibility to germs and insect pests, iron pickup was gradually replaced by some new varieties, but some countries still grow iron pickup varieties. such as Peru, Yunnan, Jamaica and Papua New Guinea.

In the front street coffee, there are Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, Papua Paradise Bird Coffee and Qianjie 2013 Yunnan Iron pickup Coffee beans. Among them, Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is the most famous, but the coffee produced by Papua also has the title of "Little Blue Mountain". Many people will ask what is the difference between these two countries that also grow iron pickup coffee.

First of all, Jamaican coffee has a long history, long-term cultivation of iron card varieties, iron card varieties in Jamaica for many years of careful cultivation, well adapted to the local climate and soil, and evolved a better disease resistance. In 1931, in order to improve the commercial development of coffee in Papua, the Jamaican variety of iron pickup was introduced. Due to the similar environmental and climatic conditions in the two regions, these seeds quickly adapted to the local environment. That's why Papuan coffee has the title of "Little Blue Mountain".

Both Jamaica and Papua are island-type coffee producing areas. Island-type coffee refers to coffee grown on islands, which usually have unique geographical and climatic conditions, so the coffee grown here has a unique flavor and quality. Island coffee is mainly distributed in some islands in the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian oceans.

Located in the northwest of the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica is located in the volcanic earthquake belt around the Pacific Ocean, with fertile volcanic soil, fresh and humid climate, foggy and rainy all the year round, and coffee is mainly grown in the Blue Mountains in the east of the country. But not all coffee grown in the Blue Mountains can be called Blue Mountain Coffee. According to the strict regulations of the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Authority (JACRA), it is only grown in the Blue Mountains areas of St. Andrew (St.Andrew), St. Thomas (St.Thomas), Portland (Portland) and St. Mary (St.Mary). And the production capacity of growing iron card varieties at an altitude of 915-1700 meters is named Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee (Jamaica Blue Mountain), and the coffee produced in other areas can only be exported from Jamaican alpine coffee and Jamaican preferred coffee.

Papua is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of the eastern part of the island of Indonesia and New Guinea and more than 600 small islands around it. Like Jamaica, it is located in the Pacific Rim volcanic seismic belt, with many tropical rain forests and volcanoes. Coffee is mainly grown between 1200 and 2500 meters in the central part of the country. Like Jamaica, it has a standard island climate, mainly tropical rain forest climate. But Papua is closer to the equator and the temperature will be higher.

Therefore, the planting environments of the two countries are very similar, but there are also differences under the subdivision. In addition, Papua is not as meticulous in coffee grading as Jamaica. Papua classifies coffee mainly on the basis of the defect rate per kilogram of raw beans, while some large estates add criteria such as the number of eyes, appearance, cup flavor and so on. At present, the Papuan coffee beans in front street are Sigri AA grade, washed and boiled with caramel, cocoa and almond flavor, slightly sour at low temperature, mellow taste and overall balance.

Jamaica has more stringent standards for exported Blue Mountain Coffee. All exported coffee needs to pass JACRA quality testing. According to the specifications of raw beans, defect rate, cup test flavor and other items for grading, Blue Mountain Coffee is divided into four grades: No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and hand-selected PB. Only by meeting the standards can you become the top blue mountain coffee in Jamaica. Such a high quality standard, coupled with historical reasons and geographical environment have created such a high-quality Blue Mountain coffee.

Blue Mountain one on the front street comes from Clifton Manor in St. Andrews, which is also washed and boiled with dark chocolate, nut and caramel flavor, creamy and silky taste, moderate mellow thickness and sweet finish. The whole is uniform and balanced. In fact, the two coffee beans are very similar in flavor performance, but there are still some differences. Papua coffee is slightly sour, while Blue Mountain coffee is more mellow, softer and more balanced as a whole.

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