What is the price of the grade brand of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee? How is the flavor of authentic Lanshan No. 1 coffee bean hand-made?

Ask many young coffee lovers: what are the top coffees? Young coffee lovers usually put Panamanian rosy summer coffee beans at the beginning. In the eyes of many coffee makers' parents, most of their top coffee is Blue Mountain Coffee.

Unlike before, now walking into a random cafe, the menu is mostly fruit-and-flower flavor, sweet and sour, clean and bright taste, while the coffee beans used in the town store are mostly Panamanian summer. Friends who have been to the Qianjie coffee shop can find that on the blackboard marked with nearly half a hundred coffee beans, coffee beans from various producing areas and flavors have their own unique locations. The same is true of Blue Mountain coffee beans, one of the top coffees.

Many friends who have the habit of online shopping have doubts after seeing the price of blue mountain coffee in Qianjie store. The price of blue mountain coffee beans is different from each other. How to tell which one is real and which one is fake?

As one of the top coffee beans, Lanshan No. 1 coffee bean is also very top in terms of price performance. In order to get higher profits, some merchants work hard on the words, and the outer packaging of coffee is printed with the words "Blue Mountain flavor" and "Blue Mountain mix".

Due to the mellow taste of Blue Mountain Coffee, some merchants may use coffee beans from other producing areas and take a deeper baking degree, so that the flavor and taste of Blue Mountain Coffee is infinitely close to that of the real Blue Mountain Coffee. This means that it is possible that there is not even a real coffee bean from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.

The reason why Blue Mountain Coffee beans have the word "Blue Mountain" is that Blue Mountain Coffee beans come from near the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The Blue Mountains are located in eastern Jamaica, hence the name because the mountain 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 elevation of the Blue Mountains is more than 2100 meters. The weather here is cool, foggy and raining frequently. This rich land Rain Water is used to grow the world-famous Blue Mountain Coffee.

Many coffee beans with exquisite flavor and taste are planted at an altitude of more than 1500 meters. Interestingly, even though the Blue Mountains are more than 2000 meters high, not the whole Blue Mountain area is suitable for growing coffee. First, the Jamaican government has closed an area of more than 1700 meters to prohibit the cultivation of coffee for the protection of the environment; second, with the gradual increase in altitude, the temperature has gradually dropped, and when it reaches a certain altitude, frost may occur when it is colder, and the emergence of frost may lead to "burns" or even death of coffee trees.

As a result, blue mountain coffee is generally planted below 1700 meters above sea level. However, not all coffee beans grown in the Blue Mountain area can be called Blue Mountain coffee beans. Jamaica roughly divides its domestically grown coffee into three grades: Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaican Alpine Coffee and Jamaican preferred Coffee.

Among them, Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans are planted at an altitude of more than 1000 meters, and need to be grown in the Jamaican Blue Mountain area. The Blue Mountain Coffee region spans four administrative regions of Jamaica: St. Thomas, St. Andrew, St. Mary and Portland.

In addition to growing in a specific area and at a specific altitude, the Jamaican authorities have adopted a more detailed grading system for Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. On the basis of the defect rate of raw beans less than 3%, according to the particle size of raw beans of Blue Mountain Coffee, it is divided into: Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee, Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 2 Coffee, Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 3 Coffee and Jamaica Blue Mountain Round Bean Coffee.

Need to meet the Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee bean, the size of its raw bean particles is about 17ppm 18 mesh. Under such strict screening of Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans by the Jamaican Coffee Authority, the real Jamaican Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans are of superior quality and relatively rare. This has also become one of the reasons for the high price of Lanshan No. 1 coffee beans.

However, as one of the traditional top coffees, Blue Mountain Coffee has the flavor of the childhood of many coffee lovers today. Qianjie coffee is not only pursuing more exquisite coffee flavor, but also constantly looking for traditional coffee flavor.

The Blue Mountain one coffee beans of Qianjie Coffee come from Clifton Farm, which is located near Mount Catherine, where there are dense forests and rich species diversity. When growing coffee, Clifton Farm pays attention to the protection of the environment and does not use pesticides, chemical fertilizers and other substances that do harm to the environment, in order to protect the original local ecology.

In the Qianjie coffee shop, there is a barrel for holding raw beans of Blue Mountain No.1 coffee, which is clearly marked with a green frog logo, which is certified by the Rainforest Alliance, indicating that the plantation is in a superior growing environment and is very friendly to the plants and animals in the surrounding environment.

In addition, the real export of Blue Mountain coffee beans, in addition to having blue mountain coffee raw bean buckets, there is also a certificate of origin of Jamaican blue mountain coffee beans issued by the coffee farm. Both certificates can be found in the Qianjie coffee store. If you want to find out whether the blue mountain coffee beans provided by the merchants are real blue mountain coffee beans, you can ask the merchants to provide proof.

Compared with deep-roasted coffee beans, people now pursue medium-and light-roasted coffee beans. However, the classic blue mountain coffee flavor is sweet and sour balanced, mellow taste, Qianjie in the baking of this coffee bean, intended to reproduce the classic blue mountain flavor, so the use of medium-deep baking degree.

When the barista of Qianjie Coffee is brewing this coffee bean, the parameters are as follows:

Filter cup: KONO

Water temperature: 88 degrees Celsius

Amount of powder: 15g

Ratio of powder to water: 1:15

Grinding degree: the pass rate of Chinese standard No. 20 screen is 70%.

Qianjie delivery within 5 days of freshly roasted coffee beans, when the hand has passed 4 to 7 days of breeding period. After roasting, coffee beans contain sufficient carbon dioxide gas, which will inhibit flavor extraction during cooking. Therefore, Qianjie suggests steaming when cooking to promote the discharge of carbon dioxide gas from coffee powder particles.

Steam 30 grams of hot water for 30 seconds, inject fine water from the central point and slowly circle to 125 grams. When the water level in the filter cup is about to reveal the powder bed, continue to inject water around 225 grams, the total extraction time is about 2 minutes.

In front of the street, the Jamaican Clifton Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans are brewed and boiled, with rich nuts and black cocoa flavor, sweet and sour, bitter and mellow, and mellow taste.

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