What's so good about Blue Mountain, which ranks first in the world's top coffee beans? What grade does Blue Mountain Coffee belong to? What are the characteristics and taste of Blue Mountain Coffee?

Because Qianjie is one of the few coffee shops that sell Blue Mountain coffee offline, many coffee lovers will come here to check in, and taste the taste of Blue Mountain Coffee, once the "top trend" in the coffee industry. Yes, I admire the name of Blue Mountain...

Then what's interesting is that after this group of enthusiast friends actually tasted Blue Mountain coffee, the Met showed a puzzled expression: slightly wrinkled eyebrows, slightly narrowed eyes, and a mouth that kept moving while trying to find something. Although everyone didn't say it clearly, Qianjie believed that everyone was thinking about what was good about Blue Mountain Coffee. When Qianjie first tasted Blue Mountain Coffee, it felt similar to everyone else. Although it was very comfortable to drink, it seemed to be an ordinary cup of high-quality coffee. Regardless of the taste or flavor, it was not so good that it was very outstanding. It was not so good that it could become a "coffee emperor." Indeed! When we put Blue Mountain Coffee to today, it may just be an ordinary cup of delicious coffee. But Blue Mountain's reputation is well-deserved, as long as you look back on its famous history. And the taste of Blue Mountain coffee is actually not as simple as everyone tastes it. So today, Qianjie will come to share with you what's so good about Blue Mountain Coffee~

What's so good about Blue Mountain Coffee? The fame of Blue Mountain Coffee was not achieved overnight. As early as 1728, coffee took root in the Blue Mountain Mountains by Nicholas Lawes, Governor of Jamaica. But for various reasons, it was not until the 1950s that Blue Mountain Coffee began to embark on the "road to becoming a king." (The cause and effect in the middle is shared in detail in the article "Portal".) In 1952, in order to expand Jamaica's coffee industry, the Jamaica Coffee Industry Management Office, established four years ago, was upgraded to the Jamaica Coffee Industry Council (referred to as CIB). The CIB is mainly responsible for formulating coffee management standards and supervising the production quality of Jamaica coffee. Because Jamaica is an island country, the area where coffee can be grown is small and cannot win by quantity. Therefore, if you want to develop the local coffee industry, Jamaica coffee can only develop in the direction of high-quality products. It was this choice that laid a solid foundation for Blue Mountain Coffee to become king in the future.

After its establishment, CIB immediately graded coffee grown in the Blue Mountains. The grading evaluation items are very complicated. The size, color, uniformity, flaw rate, moisture content, etc. of coffee beans are all evaluation items, which is enough to show how rigorous the grading is. In addition, CIB also found through cup testing that coffee beans grown in certain areas of the Blue Mountains will have superior flavor and taste than other areas. Therefore, CIB divided this area into the Blue Mountains and stipulated that only coffee grown in this area can be sold under the name "Jamaica Alpine Coffee" and "Jamaica Select Coffee."

The same is true for the cultivation and processing of coffee! Jamaica not only insists on growing Arabica iron pickups with low yield but excellent flavor, but also insists on washing them with water to ensure that the processed coffee has a lower flaw rate and higher quality. Because there was no concept of boutique coffee at that time, many producing areas were still in a low-weight coffee planting and processing method. Therefore, this operation directly made the quality of Blue Mountain coffee far exceed that of other producing areas at that time., it became one of the most popular coffees at that time.

I believe that everyone's ears were already reeling from what happened next. By the late 1960s, Jamaica's coffee industry was devastated by Hurricane Gilbert of Category 5 that swept across the country. It was with the help of loans provided by several Japanese trading companies that it was able to regain its life. Then, in order to thank Japan for its funding, the government of Jamaica signed a 30-year contract with the Japanese government in 1972. The contract is to give priority to Japan for 90% of the Blue Mountain coffee produced in the next 30 years, and the rest can be given to other countries. Due to the scarcity of production and the almost monopoly by Japan, the rarity of Blue Mountain coffee has doubled. Finally, under Japanese marketing, the craze for Blue Mountain coffee spread to the whole world, and its price and rarity also rose to an unprecedented height. Therefore, Blue Mountain Coffee became the "coffee emperor" at that time with its extremely high quality, extremely high price and extremely high rarity.

Although Blue Mountain Coffee is no longer monopolized by Japan, rare and expensive, its quality is still the same as before. So today in 2025, we can taste the flavor of this little cup of coffee when it was powerful. Of course, in addition to that, the flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee is also very unique.

A unique flavor of terroir."Orange grows in Huainan, it becomes orange, and orange grows in Huaibei, it becomes trifoliate orange." This is a saying that Qianjie often mentions when sharing coffee production areas. Because different terroirs will give birth to different flavor characteristics, this is also true for coffee. The terroir where Blue Mountain coffee is grown is very special. It is an island country. Not only is it located in the "Golden Coffee Planting Belt" and sits on fertile volcanic soil, but the most important thing is it also has an island-type climate that most producing areas do not have (therefore, Blue Mountain Coffee, which is grown on islands, is also called "Island Coffee ").

The Blue Mountain coffee planting environment has a humid climate, moderate temperature, and cloudy and rainy all year round. It is a very high-quality environment for coffee planting. Moreover, with the support of the island-type climate, the planting environment of Blue Mountain coffee will provide advantages that are much higher than most producing areas at the same altitude. Therefore, naturally, the quality of Blue Mountain coffee is much higher than that of most other continental coffee grown at the same altitude. As Qianjie said, in addition to a better planting environment, CIB has also further improved the quality of Blue Mountain coffee through strict management. Therefore, combined with various advantages, Blue Mountain Coffee has three excellent characteristics: extremely high balance in taste, extremely smooth taste, and extremely unique elegant fragrance.

Clifton Estate Blue Mountain Coffee, the Front Street Bean List, has these three characteristics. Clifton Estate is one of the earliest coffee growers in Jamaica, and the only one estate in the area has been certified by the Rainforest Alliance, and the tree frog mark of the Rainforest Alliance can be printed on the oak barrels packaging Blue Mountain coffee for export (Understanding the Rainforest Alliance → "Portal ").

Front Street Coffee: Jamaica·Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Country: Jamaica Estate: Clifton Estate Altitude: 1300 meters Variety: Blue Mountain Iron Pickup Processing Method: Washing Method Level: NO.1 Flavor: Dark chocolate, nuts, cream

The brewing parameters are: powder amount 15 g, powder and water ratio 1:15, water temperature 90 ° C, grinding to 75% sieving rate of No. 20 screen, three-stage brewing method, Kono filter cup, and brewing time 2 minutes.

When the coffee enters the entrance, Qianjie first feels the extreme balance of taste, with just the right amount of sweet, sour and bitter tastes to complement each other; then, it tastes traditional coffee flavors such as dark chocolate, nuts, and cream, which are outstanding but not stimulating and very soft; Then there is the taste, which is as said in front of Qianjie, mellow and smooth; Finally, there is the aftertaste after swallowing, which is long and long-lasting. After careful tasting, you can taste the rumored elegant fragrance. The overall drink is really comfortable and very good~

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