Characteristics of Jamaican boutique Blue Mountain Coffee introduction to the Grade and Flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee

Blue Mountain Coffee is the best boutique coffee in the world. Even if you haven't tasted it, you've all heard of it. Some coffee is sour, some coffee is bitter, while Blue Mountain Coffee is balanced. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee perfectly combines the unique sour, bitter, sweet, mellow and other flavors of coffee to form a strong and attractive elegance, 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." 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. Such excellent Blue Mountain coffee is very popular in Qianjie.

It is also coffee, why is Blue Mountain Coffee so excellent and special? Qianjie believes that this has a lot to do with its growing environment. Qianjie has said before that even if you take the blue mountain coffee trees to Hawaii, you can't grow the flavor of blue mountain coffee. It also shows how special the Blue Mountain Coffee is.

Blue Mountain Coffee planting Environment

Blue Mountain is located in the coffee belt between the north and south latitudes of 25 degrees, with a unique geographical location. Jamaica has a tropical rain forest climate, with abundant rainfall, humid air and cloudy mountains. The average elevation of the Blue Mountain is higher, coffee trees are suitable for planting on the slope, and the terrain is conducive to drainage. Plenty of light during the day, coupled with the local fertile volcanic soil layer, so that the coffee grown here to absorb full nutrients, and fully converted into aroma substances.

The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of the island of Jamaica, hence its name because it is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. On clear days, the sun shines directly on the blue sea, and the peaks reflect the bright blue light of the sea. 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 and temperature of about 27 degrees). Qianjie believes that it is this climate that has created the world-famous Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, as well as the highest price in the world.

Coffee grown in the Blue Mountains usually ripens between June and November every year, and local women who are familiar with the terrain are arranged to pick coffee cherries on steep slopes. Here, female workers who pick coffee fruits need to have some experience, and they need to harvest fruits with suitable maturity, because undermature or overripe coffee cherries are easy to affect the quality of coffee produced later.

Before 2009, Japan had the preemptive right to buy blue mountain coffee beans, monopolizing more than 80% of blue mountain coffee beans. However, the Jamaican government ended Japan's preemption right after 2009. Due to the huge market demand in China, Blue Mountain has been imported normally for many years. Blue Mountain coffee garden owners have also visited China in recent years to further let Chinese consumers know about Blue Mountain coffee beans. The Blue Mountain of the Chinese market is not rare to the extent that it is fake. Now the producing area of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is larger than before, and the consumption power of Japan has become weaker recently, so the real Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is also sold in China, as long as you know how to identify it, you can buy the real thing.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is the only coffee producing area that uses buckets to hold raw beans, while other producing areas are packed in gunny bags. The symbol of the rainforest water frog in the barrel means that Clifton Manor meets the Sustainable Agriculture system Standards and is certified by the Rainforest Alliance Rainforest Alliance.

On the front street, the Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee starts with Clifton Manor, an export company designated by the Jamaican National Coffee Agency. The barrel containing raw coffee beans will have the English print of Clifton Manor and the logo of green water frog.

The grading standard of Jamaican coffee beans varies from country to country. Blue Mountain Coffee is graded according to altitude and size. According to the altitude of cultivation, Jamaican coffee is divided into three categories: Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaican Alpine Coffee and Jamaican Coffee. Different grades also determine different prices. 1. Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee are divided into four grades each. From top to bottom in terms of quality, NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and PB,PB are round beans. According to CIB standards, only coffee grown at 1000-1700 meters above sea level is called Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, with low yield, large particles, good quality and harmonious taste, while having appropriate sour, bitter, fragrant, mellow and sweet taste, it is recognized as the best in the world, so the price of Blue Mountain No.1 is the highest of all Blue Mountain Coffee.

(1) No.1-17hammer 18 mesh, the proportion of defective beans does not exceed 2%. (2) No.2-16 stroke 17 mesh, the proportion of defective beans does not exceed 2%. (3) No.3-15 hammer 16 mesh, the proportion of defective beans does not exceed 2%. (4) Peaberry-10MS, the proportion of defective beans does not exceed 2%.

2. Jamaican Alpine Coffee is called Alpine Coffee, which is produced by 5-1000 meters in the Blue Mountain area of Jamaica, and it is also second only to Blue Mountain Coffee.

3. Jamaican Coffee Coffee grown outside the Blue Mountains is called Jamaican Coffee, which is less than 500 meters above sea level.

Blue mountain iron card variety

Blue Mountain Coffee is so special that it has a lot to do with its variety. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee belongs to the variety of tin card. I believe friends who have preliminary knowledge of the variety of coffee must know that it belongs to the Arabica variety with pure taste and has a long history of cultivation. Typica's Blue Mountain Coffee has a dark chocolate flavor, not milk chocolate, but a dark chocolate flavor with a purity of more than 92, which is brought by the pure variety of Typica. Typica coffee is very resistant to leaf rust. Typica coffee, which was widely cultivated in Central and South America, has been constantly changed because of the spread of leaf rust. However, due to the geographical advantages of Jamaica, Typica is still the main variety here, and the incidence of leaf rust is very low.

The tree shape of the iron pickup is tall, and there will be red copper leaves at the top, so it is often called red top coffee. Iron pickup has a pure and elegant flavor, but its physique is weak, disease resistance is poor, and the yield of a single plant is very small. This is also the reason why there are fewer and fewer varieties of tin card coffee. It has been more than 200 years since iron pickup was introduced to Blue Mountain in the 18th century, and the iron pickup of Blue Mountain has also adapted to the local island type and evolved a better ability of disease resistance, among which the coffee berry disease will be much stronger than the general tin card.

Treatment of blue mountain coffee beans

In the past, Blue Mountain coffee was only washed, but with the advance of boutique coffee, the Blue Mountain batch of sun treatment was first tried at Clifton Farm in 2019. Although sun blue mountain coffee is not easy to come from, Qianjie believes that washed blue mountain coffee can better reflect the essential flavor of coffee, so almost all the rations and beans in Qianjie are washed. Of course, there is Blue Mountain Coffee with sun and water treatment in the front street.

Suggestion on brewing coffee in Qianjie

Blue Mountain Coffee, whether it is raw beans, not cooked beans, is particularly beautiful. In the face of such beautiful coffee beans, I really don't want to waste any of them. Of course, Qianjie believes that no matter what coffee beans are, try not to waste them and make a delicious cup of coffee.

If you want to make a good cup of coffee, what you need is not only the variety of coffee, but also the freshness of coffee beans. Qianjie believes that the freshness of coffee beans is a very important part of brewing. The coffee beans shipped in Qianjie are all roasted within 5 days, because Qianjie is well aware that the freshness of coffee beans has a great impact on the flavor. The purpose of Qianjie roasting is "freshly roasted coffee", so that every guest who places an order is the freshest coffee when he receives it. The bean cultivation period of coffee is about 4-7 days, so when the guest gets it, it is the time when the flavor is the best.

Of course, there are some customers who need help grinding powder in front of the street, which doesn't matter, but Qianjie has to warn: if the coffee beans are ground ahead of time, there is no need to raise the beans, because in the process of transportation, the pressure caused by carbon dioxide in the package can also make the coffee flavor mellow, so when you receive the coffee powder, you can immediately make a cup of coffee drink. But the coffee powder needs to be brewed in time, because the coffee powder oxidizes more quickly after contact with the air, that is to say, the flavor of the coffee will dissipate more quickly, and the flavor of the coffee is not so good. Therefore, Qianjie suggests buying whole beans, grinding and flushing now, so that we can better taste the flavor of coffee.

Qianjie brewing Blue Mountain Coffee parameters:

Qianjie Coffee brewed these two Jamaican Blue Mountain beans with a powder-to-water ratio of 1:15 and a grinding degree of 20 with a standard pass rate of 75%. Because Qianjie Coffee in order to highlight the characteristics of Blue Mountain Coffee is balanced, mellow and soft acidity, so the water temperature of 88 degrees is fine. In the choice of filter cup, first consider the KONO filter cup, Qianjie considered that the two blue mountain beans are using a deeper degree of roasting, the deeper the roasting degree, the faster the dissolution rate of coffee substances, in order to avoid over-extraction, Qianjie uses a lower water temperature for extraction, but also uses a lower flow rate of Kono filter cup, in order to ensure that coffee substances are extracted as far as possible under low water temperature conditions.

The cooking parameters used in the front street are: Kono filter cup, 88C water temperature, powder / water ratio at 1:15, powder weight of 15g, grinding degree (75% of standard sieve 20).

Qianjie adopts segmented extraction, that is, three-stage water injection method, using 30g water for steaming, and the steaming time is 30s. The first small flow is injected around the circle to 125g to cut off water, and when the liquid level is about to expose the powder layer, continue the second stage of water injection, and the total extraction time (including steaming) is 225g.

Flavor description of Blue Mountain Coffee

[front Street Sun Blue Mountain Coffee] slight acidity of berries, reminiscent of plums and mulberries, with a good overall balance, dark chocolate and nutty flavors, with a slight sense of fermentation. [Qianjie washed Blue Mountain Coffee flavor] dark chocolate, nutty flavor, creamy smooth taste, sweet and sour balance.

The flavor of coffee beans will be different if they are treated differently. Among the coffee beans on the front street, in addition to sun treatment and washing treatment, there are Mozart coffee, Milasu coffee and Baja coffee treated with raisin honey from Costa Rica, Sherry coffee treated with whisky barrel from Honduras, and so on. Let you experience different flavors!

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