Comparison of flavor and taste characteristics of Indonesian Mantenin and Blue Mountain Coffee which tastes better, Manning or Blue Mountain coffee beans

Indonesian mantinin coffee and Jamaica blue mountain coffee are chocolate, nut flavor type bitter coffee, generally if you want to drink balanced taste, front street barista will recommend Jamaica blue mountain No.1, if you like strong coffee with herbal spice flavor, front street suggested to taste Indonesian gold mantinin. Below the front street to compare the characteristics of the next two boutique coffees.

Blue Mountain Coffee No. 1 is grown in the high altitude Blue Mountains of Jamaica

Jamaica Blue Mountains is the highest area in the Caribbean Sea. It belongs to tropical rainforest climate. The annual rainy season rainfall is as high as 1800-2000 mm. The steep slope is conducive to drainage, so that the vegetation here can be fully irrigated. The Blue Mountains have beautiful scenery, high quality air, fertile volcanic soil to promote the production of full-flavored fruits, local coffee trees will be mixed with banana trees, avocado trees planted. The clouds of the Blue Mountains at high altitudes provide natural shade for the coffee trees. In order to protect the environment of Blue Mountain, Jamaica law stipulates that crops can be planted only in areas below 1700 meters above sea level, and strictly requires Arabica coffee planted in specific areas from 910 meters to 1700 meters high to be called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is divided into four producing areas: Saint Mary's, St Thomas, St Andrew's, and Portland. The total area accounts for 1/3 of the entire Blue Mountain growing area.

In many producing areas in order to increase production and change to more high-yield coffee varieties, Blue Mountain has always insisted on planting recognized high-quality ancient varieties-iron pickup. After nearly 300 years of adaptation and reproduction, Blue Mountain Iron Pickup not only integrated into the local island type terroir, but also evolved a better disease resistance, which was much stronger than ordinary iron pickups for coffee berry disease. Front Street believes Blue Mountain's delicate clean flavor cannot be separated from Jamaica's careful cultivation of iron pickup varieties. Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee on Front Street is produced at Jamaica's historic Clifton Estate and is traditionally washed.

Clifton Manor floats freshly picked coffee cherries in a tank to remove the peel and pulp before the beans ferment, which overnight produces a lot of acid that allows the pectin layer to peel off the surface. Then put the shelled beans in the sun to dry until the moisture content reaches the standard, pack them and store them in the warehouse, and send them to the quality inspection. The washing step makes the flavor of Blue Mountain coffee beans cleaner and more stable.

Indonesian gold mantinen comes from the mysterious island of Sumatra

Mantenin is grown on the mysterious Indonesian island of Sumatra, which is divided into eight provinces, of which only Aceh and Subei, which are located at high altitudes, grow Arabica coffee on a large scale. Sumatra is a tropical rain forest area, the mountains are often filled with clouds and rain, for Sumatra cast a layer of mystery. Locals grow coffee trees around two large volcanic lakes, Lake Tawar and Lake Toba. The Gayo Mountains around Lake Tawar offer ideal coffee growing conditions, with extensive organic coffee cultivation and a long history of cultivation, resulting in higher coffee quality and yield. Many green coffee merchants also value it more, including the local famous Pwani Coffee Company (PWN), from which the gold Mantenin coffee on the front street bean list is produced, using Indonesia's unique wet planing method.

The wet planing method is to first remove the peel and pulp of the coffee fruit, dry it after a short fermentation, remove the sheepskin layer in the semi-dry state of the beans, and continue to dry the latter stage until the moisture content drops to 12%. Since each link is completed in a humidity environment of 70~90%, and the sheepskin layer has been removed before the final drying step, the "naked" green beans easily absorb moisture from the air, so the coffee produced has more woody, herbal, and spicy smoky aromas, which are also unique to Indonesian coffee producing areas.

Blue Mountain One and Golden Mantenin are among the highest in the region.

Jamaica will be graded according to the specifications, defect rate, cup flavor and other items of Blue Mountain Coffee Green Beans. Blue Mountain Coffee is divided into four grades: Blue Mountain No.1, Blue Mountain No.2, Blue Mountain No.3 and hand-selected Blue Mountain Round Beans. Among them, Blue Mountain No.1 coffee beans have the highest grade. The raw beans are above 17 mesh and the moisture content is about 10-12.5%. After roasting, they have just the right acid, sweet, bitter, alcohol and fragrance. They are extremely precious Blue Mountain coffee batches. To ensure that Blue Mountain coffee beans remain of better quality until roasting and avoid moisture infiltration during transportation, Jamaica insists on using hand-made barrels as carriers for Blue Mountain green beans. Cask has also become one of the important symbols of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee.

Gold Mantelin Coffee is PWN's exclusive signature product. Since the trademark of "Gold Mantelin" has been registered in the early years, only the Mantelin produced by PWN can be called "Gold Mantelin". Gold mantning coffee is characterized by the green beans after multiple screening, the overall quality is very high. PWN purchased more than 18 mesh Mantenin raw beans, and the number of defective beans in 300g sample was less than 3, which was the highest grade of Indonesian raw beans. Subsequently, 1 machine selection +3 manual selection of defective beans will be carried out in strict accordance with the standard to ensure that the color, shape and size of Mantenin coffee beans are uniform. Therefore, PWN gold mantelin tastes cleaner and clearer, and its body and sweetness are more obvious.

These two kinds of coffee on the front street have corresponding proof documents, wooden barrels and sacks for raw beans. The front street is displayed in Dongshankou store on the front street. You can also observe the leisure time of drinking coffee.

Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee and Gold Mandolin Coffee Cup Test Flavor

Front Street will taste a coffee bean in the form of a cup test before launching it. Because both coffees highlight the nutty, full-bodied aroma, so the front street uses a medium-deep roast, retaining some of the acid, gold mantling coffee is more concentrated, so the roast degree will be deeper than Blue Mountain No.1 coffee.

The cup test is an evaluation of the quality and flavor of coffee beans. Uniform standards can more objectively find out the advantages and disadvantages of the flavor presented by beans, as well as the characteristics they have. Front Street After cup test, PWN gold mantinin not only has dark chocolate, nut, caramel aroma, but also herbal spices, pine flavor, black and clever sweet, full of aftertaste, high cleanliness, temperature drop with soft acid.

When Qianjie received Blue Mountain No.1 raw beans, the particles were uniform and full, uniform in size, and the whole was bright blue-green. After baking, the front street was cup-tested. The dry fragrance had nuts, melons and chocolate. After pouring hot water, it smelled oolong tea, caramel, honey and dark chocolate. Dark chocolate, baked hazelnut, cream, brown sugar, clean and clear flavor, mellow taste, long-lasting aroma.

Front Street Brewing Advice

Front Street believes that the biggest characteristics of these two coffees are mellow and round, so Front Street baristas will always use KONO filter cups for extraction. KONO filter cup only exhaust part is in that quarter rib, when the water level over the rib part, filter cup water volume continues to rise, through the weight of water increased pressure, because the outlet is relatively small, can prolong the coffee particles and water contact time, as the water flow into more effective soluble substances, thus improving the rich taste of coffee. Front Street hopes that every customer who orders can drink the full aroma of coffee, and will only deliver freshly roasted coffee beans within 5 days, so that everyone can enjoy the full taste period of coffee when they receive it.

Filter cup: KONO

Water temperature: 87 degrees Celsius

Powder: 15g

Powder water ratio: 1:15

Grinding degree: China standard No. 20 sieve pass rate 70%

Water injection mode: three-stage water injection

First inject 30g hot water and steam for 30s, inject fine water from the center point and slowly circle to 125g. When the water level in the filter cup drops to 225g, the total extraction time is about 2 minutes. Shake the coffee gently before tasting.

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