Jamaica Best Blue Mountain Coffee

Look, the blue mountain.

The Blue Mountains stretch to the east of the island of Jamaica. 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". In fact, 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. It's kind of mysterious.

Most of the Blue Mountains are more than 1800 meters above sea level, of which the highest peak is 2256 meters above sea level. It is also the highest peak in the Caribbean and is a famous tourist attraction.

The regional climate is unique

The unique flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee is related to its unique geographical location and climatic conditions. Blue Mountain is located in the 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.

Only coffee grown in the Blue Mountain area above 1800 meters above sea level can be called Blue Mountain Coffee. A coffee enthusiast whom the reporter knew in the United States was more "demanding". He insisted: "the coffee grown at an altitude of 2256 meters is Blue Mountain coffee." Coffee beans grown in the lower mountains of the island of Jamaica can only be named "Jamaican alpine coffee" because of their different qualities. In addition, the same coffee tree species, whether planted in Hawaii, Kenya, Papua New Guinea or anywhere else with a similar climate, cannot produce the flavor of blue mountain coffee beans.

Healthy black coffee

The earliest coffee on the island of Jamaica came from Haiti in Latin America in 1728. By 1790, some coffee farmers among the refugees in exile from Haiti had settled in the Blue Mountains and brought coffee-growing technology here. In 1838, Jamaica abolished slavery and allowed liberated slaves to cultivate their own land. Free slaves moved to the mountains to grow coffee and exported it to England. Coffee has come to be known for its admiration by the British upper class. This kind of coffee is the Blue Mountain coffee that fascinates coffee lovers all over the world today.

Pure Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee perfectly combines the unique sour, bitter, sweet, mellow and other flavors of 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." Jim, general manager of Pitt, which is famous for its coffee and tea business in the United States, said of Blue Mountain Coffee: "it tastes fragrant, smooth and mellow, and it makes me feel as precious as a gem. It is precisely because the taste of Blue Mountain coffee is moderate and perfect, so Blue Mountain coffee is generally drunk in the form of black coffee. "

Traditional production technology

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.

In addition, the processing and production of Blue Mountain Coffee is also very elegant. Strict and detailed standards have been established for processing, baking and packaging, and there are regulations on what kind of organic fertilizers are needed during the growth period. All are harvested manually at harvest time. Jamaica is also the last country to still transport coffee in traditional wooden barrels.

Only through this series of stringent standards set by the Jamaican Coffee Industry Authority can coffee obtain a guarantee issued by the government and officially bear the name "Blue Mountain".

Americans don't drink Blue Mountain coffee.

The United States is a coffee-loving country, but the reporter did not find any "coffee beauty" in several major supermarket chains and Starbucks coffee shops in Houston. According to a waiter at a Starbucks coffee shop in downtown Houston, their coffee is mainly made from beans from Africa, Colombia or Indonesia. Blue Mountain Coffee is less on the market, and 90% of Blue Mountain Coffee is owned by the Japanese. At present, the "Blue Mountain style" coffee seen on the market does not contain a positive blue mountain coffee bean. One kind of "Jamaican mixed Blue Mountain" coffee is a mixture of 30% Blue Mountain Coffee and 70% of the best Jamaican Alpine Coffee. The above two kinds of coffee try to imitate the taste of Blue Mountain Coffee, but can not achieve the perfect state.

The reporter interviewed several customers near the coffee shop, some of whom had not even heard of Blue Mountain Coffee. Blue Mountain Coffee has been given a "cold reception" in the United States, which has something to do with American coffee drinking habits. Since the 1970s in the United States, seasoned coffee has gradually become everyone's favorite coffee. It is made by adding seasoning spices to the coffee beans or adding a seasoned coffee companion to the brewed coffee. There are hundreds of flavored coffees, and the most popular flavors in the United States are vanilla, hazelnut and almond.

Seasoned coffee is mostly made from cheaper coffee beans. Blue Mountain Coffee costs $80 per pound, while Maxwell Coffee costs only $3 per pound.