Introduction to the flavor and taste characteristics and roasting degree of American coffee beans in Jamaica.

Flavor and taste characteristics: full-bodied, balanced, with fruit and sour taste.

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee has been loved by coffee connoisseurs around the world for nearly two centuries. It is regarded as the "king's coffee" and the best of coffee. Although Jamaican coffee accounts for a negligible proportion of world coffee production, it cannot stop Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee from selling the highest coffee prices in the world.

Blue Mountain Coffee is produced on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, which runs through many mountains. The slopes of these mountains are the main producing areas of Jamaican coffee, and the Blue Mountains, located in the northeast of the Jamaican capital, is just one of these mountains. The mountain has such a good name because the British soldiers who had arrived in Jamaica saw the blue light shining over the mountain and shouted, "look, the blue mountain!" From then on, it was named "Blue Mountain". The island of Jamaica is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. On every sunny day, the sun shines on the sea, and the distant mountains are shrouded in a faint blue atmosphere because of the refraction of the azure sea.

The unique flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee is related to its unique geographical location and climatic conditions. Blue Mountain is a coffee belt between 25 degrees north latitude and 25 degrees south latitude, with fertile new volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, rainy all the year round and great temperature difference between day and night. Most importantly, every afternoon, clouds cover the top of the mountain, which not only shades the coffee trees naturally, but also brings abundant water vapor, which makes the taste and aroma of Blue Mountain coffee outstanding.

80% of Jamaica is covered by mountains, with steep mountains and coffee trees almost entirely on rugged slopes. Therefore, the process of picking coffee beans during the harvest period is very difficult, and non-local skilled female workers are simply not competent. When picking, we should choose the right mature coffee beans, immature or ripe coffee beans will affect the quality of coffee. The picked coffee beans are shelled on the same day, and then let them ferment for 18 hours. After that, the coffee beans were cleaned and screened. The subsequent process is to dry, which must be carried out on the cement floor or on a thick blanket until the humidity of the coffee beans drops to 12% 14%. And then store it in a special warehouse. Take it out and roast when needed, then grind it into powder. These procedures must be strictly mastered, otherwise, the quality of coffee will be affected.

For the very precious Blue Mountain Coffee, the packing and transportation mode adopted by the Jamaican government is also different. Unlike other coffees, Blue Mountain Coffee is not packed and transported in cloth bags at 60kg / bag, but in wooden barrels at the standard of 70kg / barrel. What is even more special is that each barrel is accompanied by a certificate issued and sealed by the Jamaican government to prove its pure pedigree, which is unique in the whole coffee industry.

Not all coffee produced in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica is labeled "Blue Mountain Coffee". There are two grades of coffee here: "Alpine Coffee" and "Blue Mountain Coffee". Only those grown in the Blue Mountains above 609 meters above sea level are authorized to use the logo "Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee". Blue Mountain Coffee can maintain today's top status, but also closely related to the local business policy. In 1932, Jamaica adopted a policy to encourage coffee production to reduce the island's dependence on sugar exports. Unlike most coffee-producing countries, the local government does not plant a large number of high-quality and poor-quality coffee in order to increase output, but to give priority to quality, preferring to sacrifice the output of coffee to ensure the quality of Blue Mountain coffee. Therefore, Jamaica is currently one of the countries with low coffee production in the world. 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.

Some people have compared drinking Blue Mountain Coffee to driving a Rolls-Royce, which is an excellent enjoyment. The quality of Blue Mountain Coffee is the best. It has large particles, good quality, harmonious taste, rich mellow taste, uniform flavor, aroma, concentration, acidity and spiciness. It is recognized as the best coffee in the world. Pure Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee perfectly combines the unique sour, bitter, sweet, mellow and other flavors in the coffee to form a strong and attractive elegant flavor, which is unmatched by other coffee. People who love Blue Mountain Coffee say: it is a "coffee beauty" that combines all the advantages of good coffee.

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