The secret of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee sweeping the World-authentic Blue Mountain with a long lasting charm

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Mavis Bank is the second largest state-owned brand of Blue Mountain Coffee in Jamaica. The factory is located halfway up the Blue Mountain Mountains. It mainly purchases raw beans from local coffee farmers and treats them uniformly (the growing environment of beans is about 1200-1400 meters, and the bean species are iron pickup blue mountain branches). Its ripe bean brand is translated as "premium blue" in China, which has a very high reputation among domestic coffee consumers.@ The first person of Blue Mountain Coffee visited the factory in person and had many face-to-face exchanges with senior executives such as Mr. Grant, the former chairman of the factory.

This batch of Blue Mountain uses Mavis Bank's most preferred NO.1, using moderate fresh baking, with rich oolong tea, chocolate, roasted almond and brown sugar sweet aroma, soft acidity, with silky and full touch, bitter light and comfortable, clear sweet, hang cup for a long time, long finish, so acid, sweet, bitter, alcohol balance is the best, known as the flawless coffee. Recommended:90 degrees hand wash, water powder ratio 1:16, grinding slightly finer than white granulated sugar.

Secrets of the World

Blue Mountain coffee is the most superior coffee in the world, and the yield is small, and the substance is rare. The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of Jamaica Island. They are named because they are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. Whenever the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the blue sea, and the peaks reflect the bright blue light of the sea. Blue Mountain peak elevation of 2256 meters, is the highest peak in the Caribbean, is also a famous tourist attraction. It is located in the coffee belt, has fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, foggy and rainy all year round,(average precipitation is 1980 mm, temperature is about 27 degrees) This climate has created the world-famous Teatro Blue Mountain coffee, but also created the world's highest price coffee. This kind of coffee has all the characteristics of good coffee, not only the taste is rich and mellow, but also because the sweet, sour and bitter flavors of coffee are perfectly matched, so there is no bitterness at all, only moderate and perfect sourness. Generally, they are consumed as a single item, but due to the extremely low output and extremely expensive price, coffee is generally prepared with similar taste on the market.

Why Blue Mountain Coffee tastes pure "secret": their coffee trees all grow on rugged hillsides, picking process is very difficult, non-local skilled female workers simply can not be competent. It is important to choose the right ripe coffee beans at the time of picking. Unripe or ripe coffee can affect the quality of coffee. The beans are shelled the same day and allowed to ferment for 12-18 hours. Coffee beans are then washed and sifted. After that, the process is drying, which must be carried out on concrete floor or thick blanket until the humidity of coffee beans drops to 12%-14%. Then they are stored in special silos. When needed, it is taken out and roasted, and then ground into powder. These procedures must be strictly controlled, otherwise, the quality of coffee will be affected.

Of course, in terms of brand promotion, the Japanese have contributed to Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee.

● History

In 1717, King Louis XV of France ordered coffee to be grown in Jamaica. In the mid-1920s, Nicholas, governor of Jamaica, ordered coffee to be grown in Jamaica. Nicholas Lawes imported Arabica seeds from Martinique and began planting them in St. Andrew. To this day, St Andrew's remains one of the three major producing areas of Blue Mountain coffee in Jamaica, along with Portland and St Thomas. Within eight years, Jamaica exported more than 375 tons of pure coffee. Coffee production peaked in 1932, harvesting more than 15000 tons of coffee. The Government of Jamaica established the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board in 1950 to establish quality standards for Jamaica coffee and oversee the implementation of quality standards to ensure the quality of Jamaica coffee. The Commission awards a special official seal to Jamaica's exports of green and roasted coffee and is the world's highest national coffee authority. At present, Mavis Bank Coffee Factory(M.B.C. F), Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative Factory (M.H.C.C.T.), Portland Blue Mountain Coffee Cooperative Plant (P.X.X.S.H.), Coffee Industry Association (Wallenford), Coffee Industry Association (St. John's Peak) and Blue (J.A. S).

By 1969, the situation had improved, as Japanese loans had improved the quality of production and thus secured the market. By now, the coffee has reached the point of being fanatically loved.

By 1981, about 1500 hectares of land in Jamaica had been cleared for coffee, followed by another 6000 hectares. In fact, today's Blue Mountain region is a small area of only 6000 hectares, and it is impossible that all the coffee labeled "Blue Mountain" is grown there. Another 12000 hectares are devoted to growing two other types of coffee: alpine premium coffee and Jamaica premium coffee.

● Geographical advantages

Blue Mountain Coffee is the world's premier coffee, and Jamaica's weather, geology and terrain combine to provide the ideal location. The ridge that runs through Jamaica extends to the east of the island. It is foggy all the year round. The island has frequent precipitation. The air is pure and the sun is clear, which makes the island rain harmonious. Here, coffee trees are grown in a mixed cropping system, alongside banana and avocado trees on terraces. Some small farms are also planted. But even the region's largest planters are small-scale farmers by international standards, many of them smallholders whose families have been working for two centuries. The coffee industry in Jamaica faces a number of problems, such as the effects of hurricanes, leaf rust, increased labour costs and difficulties in mechanizing terraces. Many small estates and farms are difficult to rationalize.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee was largely underwritten by the Nippon Foundation until 2009, as Japan signed a 30-year contract with the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board (CIB) to continue investing in the Jamaica coffee industry. For example, in 1992, Jamaica sold 688 tons of Blue Mountain coffee to Japan, 75 tons to the United States and 59 tons to Britain. In 2008, after the expiration of the contract between the two parties, the global economic crisis was encountered, Japan's economic downturn, purchasing power declined, and Jamaica coffee farmers woke up and were unwilling to be monopolized by Japanese businessmen. Therefore, the price of coffee beans was greatly increased. Up to now, the amount of Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee purchased by Japan has dropped from 90% to less than 60%. This also brought opportunities to the team of Hangzhou City Coffee Western Food Industry Association, which was dominated by @ Blue Mountain Coffee in Hangzhou, China in 2010, and signed the sole general agent of Jamaica raw beans in China with an annual quota of 70 tons of raw beans.

● Classification

Jamaica coffee comes in three varieties: Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica High Mountain Supreme Coffee Beans and Jamaica Prime Coffee Beans. Among them, Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee are divided into four grades. From the top to the bottom of the quality points are: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and PB, PB is round beans. According to CIB standards, only coffee grown above 666 meters above sea level is called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee; coffee grown below 666 meters in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica is called Alpine Coffee; coffee grown outside the Blue Mountains is called Jamaica Coffee. It turns out that Chinese coffee industry generally has a wrong understanding that only coffee planted in the Blue Mountain area above 1800 meters above sea level can be called Blue Mountain Coffee. In fact, there is only one manor on the mountain crown above 1800 meters in the Blue Mountain Mountains, Amber, which is descended from Chinese people. The manor's main surname is Lyn(Lin), whose ancestral home is Guangdong, China. The manor has only 30 hectares of land and its yield is very small. Blue Mountain Coffee is mainly distributed in the Blue Mountain Mountains John Crow, St. John's Peak,Mossman's Peak,High Peak,Blue Mountian Peak and other five mountain areas.

● Quality control

① Logo of Jamaica Coffee Industry Bureau, which registers and authenticates all merchants in the whole industry chain of production, sales and roasting of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee;

② China's only certified raw bean agent LOGO;

(3) Jamaica Coffee Bureau (CIB) officially registers JAMAICA BLUE MOUNTAIN trademark and marks all certified Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee green beans and cooked beans;

With the globalization of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee's reputation and the introduction of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee cultivation around the world, many counterfeit Blue Mountain flavored coffees have appeared in the market, seriously affecting the excellent reputation of authentic Blue Mountain Coffee. In recent years, the government of Jamaica has urged that Blue Mountain coffee be roasted and exported in the country in its original packaging, rather than in green bean form, to avoid the impact of counterfeit Blue Mountain flavored coffee. The importance of this initiative lies in the fact that the Jamaica Coffee Board is able to monitor every step of Blue Mountain coffee exports to ensure the purity and high quality of Blue Mountain coffee.

● Quality standards

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is the best variety of Arabica with low quantity and good quality. The harvest period is from June to November every year. Generally, it is picked by hand. After picking, it goes through washing, peeling, fermentation, dehydration, drying, shelling and baking in order to get a good quality Blue Mountain Coffee ripe bean. In the green bean processing process, each step has a special person responsible for quality supervision. The packaging and transportation methods adopted by the Jamaica government are also different for the very precious Blue Mountain Coffee. Blue Mountain coffee is not packed and transported in bags like other coffees, but in barrels with a standard of 70 kg/barrel. Jamaica was also the last country to still ship coffee in traditional barrels. Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee beans must obtain a Certificate of Quality from the Jamaica Coffee Industry Council, which is the only body in Jamaica authorized to issue such certificates. And each batch of exports will have a dedicated quality supervision expert responsible for sampling, roasting, grinding and brewing into coffee, and finally make a judgment on whether it meets the standard.

The Jamaica Coffee Industry Board stipulates that the defect rate of green beans exported shall not exceed 3%, the moisture content shall be maintained at about 13%, and the roasting rate of blue mountain coffee shall generally be maintained at 83%. According to the size of blue mountain coffee beans, blue mountain coffee with more than 17 meshes is NO.1, blue mountain coffee with more than 16 meshes is NO.2, and blue mountain coffee with more than 15 meshes is NO.3. Therefore, we usually see Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee NO.1 fresh raw beans, dark green beans, waxy texture, smooth surface, full, round, like a grain from Central America emerald. As for cooked beans, each batch of export will pass the CIB quality control manager's cup test and be released after passing, otherwise they will be returned or destroyed.

:: Export quotas

According to Jamaica CIB export statistics for 2004, 85% of the limited Blue Mountain NO.1 quota was allocated to Japan, 5% to the United States, 5% to Europe and 5% to other countries. However, in the global distribution of authentic Blue Mountain NO.1 consumption, according to the International Coffee Association (ICO) statistics, China accounts for 15% of Blue Mountain coffee consumption, which makes the world stunned. The reason is that part of Japan, Australia, Europe Blue Mountain coffee share through direct sales branch exports to China.

The Jamaica government is extremely embarrassed by these differences in export quotas and consumption distribution. Jamaica's coffee industry did not benefit from asymmetric export quotas for Blue Mountain coffee, which kept most of the profits in trading companies in countries such as Japan. The key to the shift came in 2005 when Jamaica's Minister of Agriculture made it clear that Blue Mountain coffee should remain more in Jamaica roasting, distributed directly through quotas, and tend to circulate directly from Jamaica to consuming countries.

The means by which the Government of Jamaica relies to change export quotas comes from Wallenford Estate, which is directly controlled by the Government. To obtain Wallenford Blue Mountain 1 quota means that the Jamaica Coffee Board (CIB) endorses quota targets for the country or company.

● About the Blue Mountains of Jamaica in China

Blue Mountain Coffee has a relatively fixed consumer group because of its expensive price, and its sales are mainly concentrated in Japan, followed by some European and American countries. Coffee beans are plump in shape and slightly larger than ordinary beans. It tastes very subtle, sour, fragrant, mellow, sweet and intense, slightly bitter, taste harmonious, excellent flavor, suitable for single-serve coffee. It uses Medium Roast, which preserves the coffee's original flavor to the greatest extent and enhances its aftertaste. In China, influenced by the coffee culture of Japan and Taiwan, coffee roasters generally prefer to roast Blue Mountain moderately lighter, about 10-15 seconds after the end of the explosion. However,@ Blue Mountain Coffee first person thinks that 80% of the flavor and taste of coffee comes from roasting. If Blue Mountain Coffee is roasted too shallow, although you can taste the complex aroma such as fruit acid and flower fragrance, the aroma is not rich enough and the taste is not full enough. Especially the aroma of tropical nuts unique to Blue Mountain cannot be well reflected. Therefore, too shallow roasting will lose some flavor characteristics of Blue Mountain Coffee.

In recent years, with the domestic coffee consumption market going well, a large number of cafes began to supply a variety of coffee with the words "Blue Mountain Coffee," and although its price is only a fraction or a dozen of the authentic Blue Mountain Coffee, its flavor is often thousands of miles apart. Especially in the past 10 years, the media often exposed counterfeit Blue Mountain coffee, which made many consumers discouraged from Blue Mountain coffee.

Blue Mountain Coffee can maintain today's premium status, and local business policies are inseparable. In 1932, Jamaica reduced the island's dependence on sugar exports by encouraging coffee production. The local government did not grow a large number of high-quality coffee in order to increase production value, as most coffee-producing countries did. Instead, it preferred quality to quality, and would rather sacrifice production to ensure quality. Therefore, Jamaica is one of the countries in the world that produces less coffee. Brazil, the world's largest coffee exporter, produces 30 million bags of coffee a year, while Blue Mountain produces only about 40,000 bags a year.

● Tasting Blue Mountain

Blue Mountain coffee is like a lady, you should know how to appreciate its unique charm. In a good state of mind led by a European coffee cup, dense aroma, suddenly curl into your nasal cavity, you can not help but sip, carefully taste, that wisp of lingering taste, from your throat, slowly drift, deep into your organs. At this moment, you might as well in the melodious blues music, in the pure fragrance, with a cup of blue mountain coffee to cleanse the soul, warm the soul. Drinking a cup of Blue Mountain is reading a poem, listening to a song, dancing a perfect dance, and the protagonist is yourself.

Generally speaking, Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee uses Medium Roast, which is suitable for single coffee, so as to retain its flavor to the greatest extent. 100% pure Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee unique acid, bitter, sweet, alcohol, especially its rich unique fruit, perfectly balanced harmony, high altitude origin makes it with a little high quality sour, a very slight degree of bitter taste short and not retained in the mouth, into the throat that turns into a slightly sweet feeling, mellow throat rhyme more people want to finish, so that the taste of vision, smell, taste at the same time get the most perfect enjoyment, so that coffee lovers all over the world are deeply fascinated by it! Its caffeine content is very low, only about 1/3 of ordinary varieties of coffee, in line with modern people's health requirements. As a result, the World Coffee Organization considers Blue Mountain coffee to be "the only coffee in the world that cannot be found to be defective."

Coffee is a healthy drink.

1. Refresh.

Caffeine is spicy and aromatic, easily passes through the brain-blood barrier, stimulates the central nervous system, promotes brain activity, makes the mind clearer, more responsive, thinking ability abundant, concentration, improves work efficiency; can stimulate the brain skin, promote emotion, judgment and memory improvement.

2. strengthen muscles and bones

Caffeine can make muscles contract freely, increase tendon strength, lower motor valves, increase body agility, and improve motor function.

3. appetizer

Caffeine stimulates sympathetic nerves, stimulates gastric acid secretion, promotes digestion, prevents stomach distension, gastroptosis, and promotes gastrointestinal hormones, peristaltic hormones, and rapid defecation.

4. eliminate fat and accumulation

Caffeine can accelerate fat decomposition, increase the body's metabolic rate, increase heat consumption, and help reduce fat and lose weight. 、

5. Liqiao dehumidification

Caffeine can promote kidney function, expel excess sodium ions from the body, increase urine output, improve abdominal distension and edema, and help lose weight.

6. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis

Coffee contains linoleic acid, which has hemolysis and prevents thrombosis, enhances vasoconstriction, promotes blood circulation, and relieves vasodilation headaches, especially migraines. In addition, it can promote venous reflux, moisturize the skin, restore the elasticity of the muscle surface and prevent cardiovascular disease.

7. Extinguish wind and stop spasm

Coffee can increase high-density cholesterol, accelerate the metabolism of bad cholesterol, reduce atherosis of coronary arteries, and reduce the risk of stroke.

8. Joyful color

A small amount of coffee is exciting and pleasant, putting aside troubles, melancholy, relieving stress and relaxing body and mind.

9. Lung calming asthma

Caffeine promotes the sympathetic nerve, suppresses the parasympathetic nerve, and avoids asthma caused by parasympathetic nerve excitement.

Blue Mountain Coffee recommended brewing method

1. Siphon kettle

Recommended gouache ratio: 1:15

Coffee grinding is of medium thickness (usually a 4-5 scale on a bean grinder). The naked eye observes that the grain thickness is similar to that of granulated sugar.

The first step is grinding beans.

Step 2 unhook filter

The gap between the filter and the glass container should be avoided, because the gap will not only make the coffee powder fall into the water below, but also make the container leak and affect the extraction effect.

The third step is to fill the kettle with the right amount of water and heat it with an alcohol lamp or electricity.

To save time, hot water can be used.

Step 4, pour the coffee powder into the pot.

Remember not to insert the pot immediately.

Step 5 after the water boils, move the alcohol lamp to the side of the pot

The purpose of this is to adjust the heat to a small fire in order to lower the water temperature.

Step 6 wait for the water temperature to drop to about 90-94 degrees, insert the pot.

That is, the extraction process begins, when the water in the lower pot rushes to the upper pot and soaks the coffee powder.

After the water rises in the seventh step, stir in a cross shape with a stirring rod: vertical twice and horizontal twice.

Be careful not to touch the filter cloth at the bottom of the pot.

Step 8: wait 30 seconds after the first stirring, then stir clockwise spirally for 2-3 times, faster.

Step 9 when the cooking time is no more than 45 seconds, remove the alcohol lamp (or turn off the heating power), then wipe the surface of the lower pot with a damp cloth to cool it quickly, and the coffee liquid will flow into the pot quickly. At this time, you can see that the coffee powder bulges like a steamed bread in the middle of the bottom of the pot, indicating that the extraction is successful.

Step 10 pour the coffee in the next pot into a warm coffee cup and drink it.

2. Hand flushing

Recommended gouache ratio: 1:15

Coffee grinding is of medium thickness (usually a 4-5 scale on a bean grinder). The naked eye observes that the grain thickness is similar to that of granulated sugar.

The brewing water temperature is about 88-92 degrees.

Can be prepared in advance for many people of hot coffee supply, brewing must also pay attention to the coffee powder thickness-water temperature, water volume and brewing methods and other skills, it is best to use a sharp mouth kettle, the effect is better, at the same time, after the coffee liquid dripping is finished, you must return to 80: 90 ℃ in order to achieve the best drinking flavor.

Materials and utensils: coffee powder, small punch bag (filter paper, Swiss gold, etc.), upper cup, lower pot, punch rack, pointed hand punch pot, coffee spoon, etc.

Production: pour the coffee powder into the punching bag, first pat the bottom to make the powder even, then dig a small hole in the center above, pour hot water around the circle with 90 ℃ or so into the coffee powder, wait for all the coffee powder to be soaked, steam for 30 seconds, and pour out the coffee liquid that has been dripped in the pot, then continue to rotate the water slowly around the small circle with 90 ℃ hot water, wait for the pot to reach the desired coffee liquid scale, remove the cup.

In addition, Blue Mountain Coffee, as a boutique coffee, can also be made using Belgian pots, French presses and American trickling pots.