Introduction to the Grade Classification of Blue Mountain Coffee the taste characteristics of Blue Mountain Coffee

Friends who often drink coffee must know that fine coffee has a corresponding grade, the higher the grade, the higher the quality of coffee, and the higher the corresponding price. As one of the most famous high-quality coffee in the world, pure Blue Mountain Coffee has elegant aroma and classic mellow taste, seducing countless coffee people, including Qianjie is also one of its number one fans.

Grade Classification of Blue Mountain Coffee

Blue Mountain Coffee has a strict grading system. In order to distinguish between Blue Mountain Coffee and ordinary Jamaican Coffee, the Jamaican government has set up a special grading system. Certified by the Jamaican Coffee Industry Committee (Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica,JCIB), the coffee produced in the Blue Mountains at an altitude of 910 to 1700m is allowed to be called Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. The certified planting area is only 6000 hectares. Including 5 peaks of Blue Mountain: JohnCrow, St.John' SPeak 、 Mossman'sPeak 、 HighPeak 、 BlueMountianPeak . Accounting for 1% of the Blue Mountain region, only about 15% of the coffee produced in Jamaica can be named Blue Mountain Coffee. The higher the altitude, the more difficult it is to pick, and the higher the cost of manual management.

The variety of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is Iron pickup, which has elegant aroma, rich acidity and sweetness. Iron pickup is famous for its weak resistance and low yield, so many producing areas have given up planting one after another. Compared with many growers who choose to switch to high-yielding varieties in order to increase their yields, Jamaica has always persisted in the large-scale cultivation of tin card seeds in the Blue Mountains. Due to the fact that the Blue Mountains are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and there is no too much man-made pollution, the local iron pickups have adapted to the Blue Mountains over the years and evolved into a variety with stronger disease resistance than ordinary iron pickups, with the unique flavor of the Blue Mountains.

In order to make the quality of coffee beans more stable, during the harvest season, local women who are familiar with the terrain will be arranged to go up the mountain to pick the ripe coffee fruit. The manor that produces Blue Mountain Coffee will be washed with water, and defective beans will be removed in many links, making the aroma of Blue Mountain clearer. The Blue Mountain coffee on the front street bean list is washed and produced at Clifton Manor. Clifton Manor floats the picked fresh coffee cherries in a tank and removes the peel and pulp before the beans are fermented. Overnight fermentation produces a large amount of acid, leaving the pectin layer off the surface. Then dry the shell beans in the sun until the moisture content reaches the standard, pack and store them in the warehouse and send them to the quality inspection. Washing steps make the flavor of Blue Mountain coffee beans cleaner and more stable.

The dried Lanshan raw beans need to be graded according to a number of evaluation criteria, including size, color, moisture content and baked cup quality. According to different performance characteristics, Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee can be divided into Blue Mountain No. 1, Blue Mountain No. 2, Blue Mountain No. 3 and Blue Mountain Dou, of which Blue Mountain No. 1 is the highest grade, and it is also our more common authentic Blue Mountain Coffee in China. If you want to reach a higher level of Blue Mountain Coffee, you need to invest more manpower to manually screen out poor quality beans, which is why high quality Blue Mountain Coffee is so expensive.

Authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

Many friends who go to the Qianjie store to order Blue Mountain coffee will ask whether the "Blue Mountain" on the Qianjie bean list is a "true blue mountain." There is no denying that due to the famous name of Blue Mountain, there are many "fake Blue Mountains" on the market, such as "Blue Mountain Flavor Coffee", "Blue Mountain blend", "Blue Mountain preferred Coffee".... If you want to identify the authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, Qianjie summed up the following points, we do not have a reference.

Qianjie also concluded that the authentic Blue Mountain coffee is in a specific height area, all kinds of labor costs are very high, so the price of coffee will not be too low. If the "blue mountain beans" we buy is only a few dozen yuan, it is very likely to be fake. As a reference, the price of Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee in front street is 158 yuan / 100 grams.

Aroma, Blue Mountain Coffee has a rich, dense, long-lasting chocolate, roasted hazelnut aroma, is the general deep-roasted blend coffee is incomparable. In terms of taste, the true blue mountain coffee has a balance of sweet, sour and bitter aroma, which will not be more prominent, and the mellow thickness and sweetness are just right.

If we can't tell the difference between the above two points, ask the merchant to show the Blue Mountain certificate and the barrel in which the raw beans are packed. Jamaica's Blue Mountain is the only producing area that uses barrels to hold raw beans. Qianjie Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee also has a quality certificate issued by Jamaica Coffee Bureau, an authorized sales certificate issued by Blue Mountain Coffee manufacturer, and a certificate of origin of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. When you pay a little attention to the wooden bucket when you go to the Dongshankou shop in Qianjie for coffee, you can see it on the right side of the entrance.

Flavor characteristics of Lanshan No.1 Coffee

When we buy a bag of high-quality Blue Mountain coffee beans, the first thing to study is, of course, how to make it taste good. Below the front street, let's talk about the way of brewing in front of the street with Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee on the bean shelf.

Qianjie recommends the use of coffee beans in the best taste period. if the roasting date has been more than a month, some of the aroma may have been lost and may even produce woody flavor. The coffee beans shipped in front of the street are all baked within 5 days, so that when you receive them, they should be in the stage of appreciation with the fullest aroma.

The classic Blue Mountain flavor is full-bodied aromas of chocolate and baked nuts, with soft acidity and mellow taste. In order to restore the classic taste, Qianjie baker chooses deep baking in the middle, highlighting the baking aroma while retaining part of the acidity. Qianjie found a balanced taste of sour, sweet, fragrant, bitter and mellow coffee beans in the cup test of Lanshan No.1 coffee beans, so Qianjie baristas also worked out corresponding cooking ideas according to this flavor trend.

Front street cooking parameters: KONO filter cup, 75% pass rate of No. 20 standard sieve, and 88 ℃ water temperature, with three-stage water injection commonly used in front street. Coffee powder: 15 grams of powder: 1:15.

Three-stage water injection: moisten the coffee powder layer evenly with 30g water and steam for 30 seconds, the second stage is injected at a uniform speed from the inside to the outside with 95g water, and the third stage 100g can be injected until the water level drops to the position of 2x3 of the filter cup powder layer. pay attention to the whole process of small water flow, and then remove the filter cup after about 2 minutes of trickling. Finally, gently shake the coffee liquid and start tasting.

In the process of brewing, Blue Mountain Coffee can smell strong aromas of roasted nuts and caramel. At the entrance, you can drink dark chocolate, sweet nuts, a variety of flavors intertwined, mellow taste, bright finish, temperature changes bring rich aroma layers.

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