Golden Mantenin Coffee drink Blue Mountain Coffee beans taste and flavor differences hand-brewed course

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When it comes to mellow, fragrant coffee, you always think of Mantenin in Indonesia and the Blue Mountains in Jamaica. Manning and Blue Mountain are famous even for people who have never had coffee. In front street coffee, Golden Manning and Blue Mountain coffee are all roasted to a similar degree, all medium-deep roasting. The great god of Taguchi once mentioned in the Coffee equation: "it is not so much the name of origin as the degree of roasting that determines the taste of coffee." So is there any difference between them? Let's take everyone to explore the front street!

Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee

Blue Mountain Coffee is produced in the Blue Mountain area of Jamaica. It is an island country located in Central America and the Caribbean. This mysterious mountain is often shrouded in clouds, and the famous Blue Mountain Coffee grows here. The highest peak of the Blue Mountains, which is 2256 meters above sea level, is the highest peak in the Caribbean and a famous tourist attraction.

It is located in the coffee belt, with fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, foggy and rainy all the year round (average precipitation of 1980 mm, temperature of about 27 degrees). This climate and ultra-high altitude have created the world-famous Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.

Blue Mountain Coffee is precious because it has both a good congenital pedigree and an excellent environment. From seed selection, planting, harvest, processing and grading to packaging and export, Blue Mountain Coffee can be said to be a model student in coffee.

Coffee grown on the Blue Mountain is not the same as "Blue Mountain Coffee". According to CIB standards, only coffee grown above 666m above sea level is called Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. The cool climate in the mountains prolongs the maturity of coffee; in addition, the impact of the temperature difference between day and night can slow down the conversion of starch in coffee beans into sugar, thus increasing the rich aroma of coffee.

The shade trees planted around the coffee are also a major feature of Blue Mountain Coffee. Shade trees are usually banana trees or native Jamaican Ackee fruit trees, which protect coffee trees from the hot sun and have the function of soil and water conservation. Taking care of coffee trees requires considerable patience and care, regular pruning, removal of old stems to facilitate the growth of new branches, frequent inspection of fruit growth, and removal of stunted ones at any time, so as not to waste nutrients.

Front Street Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain one Coffee

Producing area: Lanshan producing area

Farm: Clifton

Altitude: 1310m

Variety: iron pickup

Treatment: wash or in the sun

Grade: NO.1

Clifton Hill is an ancient coffee producer that is still functioning in Jamaica, and only Clifton Farm in Jamaica has a "tropical rainforest" logo. It is recognized as a very high-quality and world-famous producing area of Blue Mountain Coffee. Its elegant large house farm is located on an island in the Newcastle area on the eastern slope of Mount Catherine at an elevation of 4300 feet.

As early as the mid-18th century (around 1750), Clifton Farm began to grow and produce coffee. The coffee planting and processing area falls at an average of 1310.64 meters, with sufficient altitude, mild afternoon cloud shade around the mountain forest, sufficient sunshine and mineral-rich planting soil to provide good growth conditions for coffee trees and prolong the ripening of coffee cherries.

The harvest of Blue Mountain Coffee is all manual, and workers have to travel among the trees on the slope to pick the ripe coffee cherries one by one. Because the coffee cherries on the same tree ripen quickly and slowly, the color of coffee cherries will change from green to red during ripening. Once red, they must be harvested immediately to avoid fermentation deterioration. Therefore, it is often divided into dozens of times to harvest all the coffee, the whole process is very hard.

Until the coffee beans are dried, strict manual selection and machine classification are carried out, and finally packaged and exported. Blue Mountain Coffee is also a major feature of hand-made wooden barrel packaging instead of general sack packaging. Of all the countries in the world, Jamaica is the only country that uses wooden buckets to transport raw coffee beans.

All exported Blue Mountain Coffee must be carefully examined by the Jamaica Coffee Industry Authority (Coffee Industry Board). Only by passing the Cupping Test (tasting test) of coffee by professional quality control personnel can we enter the world market.

PWN Gold Manning Coffee

Indonesia is a country made up of many islands, large and small, centered around the equator. Coffee production is the third in the world, most of which are Robusta varieties. Arabica is also grown in Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra, especially Mantenin coffee in Sumatra, which can be said to be the representative of Indonesian coffee, of which GR ADE 1 is the best with the least defective beans.

When it comes to Golden PWN, the acronym is often mixed with the name of Manning Coffee, which is actually a company's acronym Pwani Coffee Company.

This company is a very famous local coffee acquisition company in Indonesia, mainly buying Mantenin Coffee. It has acquired almost all the best producing areas in Indonesia, so most of the beans produced by PWN are unique boutiques. Gold Mantning is the product produced by this company. After the acquisition of raw beans, the beans are selected by hand to select the full and flawless beans. Finally, these beans can be divided into Golden Manning as if they had gone through the draft.

Front Street Coffee Indonesia PWM Gold Manning Coffee Bean

Producing area: Aceh Jiayu Mountain in Sumatra

Altitude: 1100-1600 m

Variety: Ateng

Grade: G1, 3 times hand selection

Treatment method: wet planing method

Comparison of treatment methods

Blue Mountain Coffee is treated by water washing. the harvested fruit must first be screened by bleaching, then remove the peel and mucous membrane by washing, expose the coffee beans inside, and send them to the processing plant for centralized processing. The peel, pulp and mucous membrane were removed by washing and fermentation. Farms that use the washing method must build washing ponds and be able to introduce an endless supply of running water. During the treatment, first remove the peel and pulp and let it ferment for 18 hours, then put the mellow beans into the pool and pass them back and forth, using the friction of the beans and the power of running water to wash the coffee beans until smooth and clean.

Golden Manning is a classic Indonesian treatment-wet planing.

Wet planing, also known as wet shelling Wet Hulling, also known as Giling Basah in the local language, is a traditional Indonesian coffee treatment. Judging from the name alone, the wet planing method is very similar to the wet treatment (water washing treatment). However, the cup flavor of the two treatments is very different. The coffee treated by the wet planing method is usually mellow and strong, and the personality is very distinct.

Raw bean comparison

The variety of Blue Mountain Coffee is Iron pickup, which is an ancient coffee variety. NO.1 's basic standard of blue mountain raw beans is beans with more than 17 mesh, defect rate less than 3%, moisture content about 13%, etc., which looks like beautiful, full blue-green raw beans.

This year, the coffee producing area of Golden Manning has been transferred from Lake dopa to Aceh, and the variety has also been replaced with Ateng, a Katim species that has been localized and improved many times. Raw beans are basically flat beans with more than 19 mesh, dark green and neat. It seems that there will be more sheep's hoof beans, but this is not a flaw, because when the parchment is removed by wet planing, the water content of coffee is still as high as 20-24%, while in the general treatment, the water content of coffee is reduced to 10-12% before shelling. In the "semi-dry" state, parchment will adhere to the surface of raw beans, removing parchment is more difficult than "fully dry", and the shelling process requires more friction.

But on the other hand, "semi-dry" raw coffee beans are very fragile at this time, far less hard than "fully dry" raw beans, so beans are more likely to be squeezed and form a small gap. This is what we often call horseshoes or sheep's hoof beans (locally known as kuku kambing).

Flavor comparison

Let's compare the difference between Golden Manning and Blue Mountain Coffee by hand. Both use KONO filter cups to minimize errors in parameters and techniques.

[blue Mountain]

KONO filter cup; parameters: 15g powder, water temperature 88 degrees, grinding degree: BG 6m (Chinese standard 20 sieve, pass rate 60%), ratio of water to powder close to 1:14, extraction time about 1:55

The steaming time of 30g water is 30s, and the first stage water injection is cut off to 120g; vertical flow, small flow slowly circle; the second stage water injection to 210g, the flow and winding speed is slightly faster, reducing powder blocking filter cup, resulting in over-extraction.

The taste is very clean, complex, very mild, chocolate sweet, very mellow. The taste is full-bodied and mellow. the sweet, sour and bitter taste of the coffee is perfect, with no bitterness at all, only a moderate and perfect sour taste and a long fruity taste.

[Golden Manning]

KONO filter cup; parameters: 15g powder, water temperature 88 degrees, grinding degree: BG 6m (Chinese standard 20 sieve, pass rate 60%), ratio of water to powder close to 1:14, extraction time about 1:54

Technique: the first injection of 30g water, 25 seconds of steaming, small flow close to the powder layer water injection to 120g, and so on, the liquid level dropped to 1Gue 3-1 / 2, water injection to the end of 210g.

The flavor of imported nuts, chocolate, spices and herbs is obvious, and the caramel is sweet and lasting.

Although Blue Mountain and Golden Manning are mellow, Golden Manning has outstanding herbal and spice flavors, while Blue Mountain is cleaner in flavor, while soft acidity, chocolate sweetness and caramel-like sweetness are different. However, there is no good or bad in the coffee, only the taste that you like or not, so no matter it is Blue Mountain or Manning, as long as you like it!

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