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Coffee item 1: also talk about Blue Mountain

After reading some of my friends' posts, I found that everyone admires Blue Mountain. To be honest, I don't like Blue Mountain, but Blue Mountain is indeed a very characteristic kind of coffee, I have to say. I will tell you what I know about the Blue Mountain, which can be regarded as a supplement to the Blue Mountain paste in the coffee bar.

"Blue Mountain" was once the protagonist of coffee mythology, "rich aroma, complete texture, perfect combination with palatable acidity", which was once the evaluation of Blue Mountain by senior connoisseurs. Blue Mountain Coffee originates from the Wallenford Coffee Park in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Of all the blue mountain coffee beans sold in Jamaica, only those labeled Blue Mountain Wallenford are authentic blue mountain beans.

I personally think that the other Blue Mountain Coffee that can be seen in small linen bags and sold for 7800 yuan and a half pound is not a real Blue Mountain. The coffee beans marked with the Blue Mountain logo produced in other coffee farms are all grown in the Blue Mountains above 1000 meters above sea level, and the tree species and planting and raw bean handling procedures on the manor meet the standards of the Jamaican government, so they can obtain government permission to use the Blue Mountain trademark. As for the quality of these coffee beans marked Blue Mountain? If you have a chance, you can try it. I think it's a bit of an exaggeration. Because in the 1970s and 1980s, major coffee producing countries in Latin America, under the leadership of their local governments, carried out a large-scale improvement of coffee species (improvement, getting colder and cooler!-- the lines of the play "Teahouse"), although the output has been greatly increased, but the flavor of coffee beans has also changed greatly, and the characteristics of the legendary Blue Mountain Coffee can only be found in memories.

Coffee beans grown less than 1000 meters on the island of Jamaica are labeled as Jamaica High Mountain (Jamaican mountains) of mediocre quality and mild texture and sour taste.

As for Blue Mountain Blend (Integrated Blue Mountain) or Blue Mountain Style (Blue Mountain flavor), it is usually a combination of better Colombian base, intended to imitate the taste of Blue Mountain (technical term: infinitely close), which has nothing to do with Jamaica.

By the way, if someone buys an authentic Blue Mountain Wallenford, be sure to use a pressure pot to make it. All other brewing methods are not suitable for such precious coffee beans (although it doesn't taste like it is now, but the price is still frighteningly high).

Coffee item 2: interesting beans

Among the many coffee products, there are some coffee beans with great character. Here we find two beans made in Brazil and introduce them to you:

Number one (I change when I grow up!): Santos (Santos)

Santos, which grows in the area of S ã o Paulo and is named as the export port of Santos, is an Arabica tree introduced by Island of Bourbon (Bubon Island: present-day French island of Reunion, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar) in the 18th century and belongs to Var.Bourbon (Bubon subspecies). Before the age of three to four, Bubon Coffee trees bear small, twisted beans called Bourbon Santos, the most advanced Brazilian beans. Once the coffee tree reaches the age of three to four years old, it will only produce large, flat beans called Flat Bean Santos, which taste terrible and are cheap and unpopular.

Number two (I just can't drink it): Rio (Rio beans)

Brazil also has a Rio (Rio de Janeiro) exported by Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro), which is also famous, but not because it tastes good. As the coffee berries continue to ferment during the drying process, the Rio beans have a strong, pungent taste of iodine, which tastes a bit pungent, called Rio. In chemistry, it is called Rio iodine taste (Rio iodine).