Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Bean Characteristics and Brewing Methods

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Jamaica BLUE MOUNT

Country: Jamaica

Altitude: 1600 meters

Region: Saint Thomas Parish

Roast Level: Medium Roast

Processing Method: Washed

The "Secret" Behind Blue Mountain Coffee's Pure Flavor

All their coffee trees grow on rugged mountain slopes, making the harvesting process extremely difficult. Only local skilled female workers can handle this challenging task. It's crucial to select coffee beans that are perfectly ripe during harvest - underripe or overripe beans will affect the coffee quality. After picking, the coffee beans must be hulled the same day, then fermented for 12-18 hours. Afterward, the coffee beans undergo washing and sorting. The next step is drying, which must be done on concrete floors or thick blankets until the coffee beans' moisture content drops to 12%-14%. Then they are stored in special warehouses. When needed, they are taken out for roasting and then ground into powder. These procedures must be strictly controlled; otherwise, the coffee quality will be affected.

Variety: Typica

Processing Plant: Abbey Green Farm

Flavor: Perfect balance of sweetness, acidity, and bitterness

How to Identify Authentic Blue Mountain Coffee

1. Appearance: Raw Blue Mountain coffee beans are greenish in color, very uniform in appearance, medium to small in size, with slightly upturned ends. After roasting, they expand significantly in volume and become very full.
2. Grinding: True Blue Mountain coffee beans grow at high altitudes, giving them a relatively loose cytoplasmic structure. When ground by hand, they feel crisp, smooth, and continuous, without any sense of resistance.
3. Aroma: The aroma is very intense and dense; so-called Blue Mountain blends do not have this aroma.
4. Taste: Authentic Blue Mountain coffee has a balanced, rich taste without any flavor being too prominent or lacking. This is also what no other coffee beans can achieve and is the most critical identification point. Blue Mountain peaberry has a more reserved aroma but relatively stronger taste.
5. Feeling: As the world's finest coffee, Blue Mountain's classic balanced characteristics inevitably bring some subconscious, indescribable satisfaction when tasted.

Hand Pouring Jamaica Blue Mountain

15g of coffee, medium grind (Fuji ghost tooth blade #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water for 27 seconds bloom, then pour to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level drops to half, then continue pouring slowly until reaching 225g. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Product Information

Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: No. 10, Bao'an Qian Street, Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Manufacturer Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 100g
Packaging: Bulk coffee beans
Roast Level: Roasted coffee beans
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Jamaica
Roast Degree: Medium roast

About Blue Mountain Coffee

Blue Mountain Coffee refers to coffee brewed from beans grown in Jamaica's Blue Mountains. It is further categorized by grade into Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and Jamaica High Mountain Coffee. The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of Jamaica. Surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, on clear days when the sun shines directly on the azure sea, the peaks reflect the brilliant blue light of the seawater, hence the name. The highest peak of Blue Mountain reaches 2256 meters, making it the highest peak in the Caribbean region. This area lies within the coffee belt, featuring fertile volcanic soil, fresh air without pollution, humid climate with year-round fog and rain (average precipitation of 1980mm, temperature around 27°C). Such climate conditions have created the world-renowned Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, as well as the world's second most expensive coffee.

Flavor Profile

Rich and mellow flavor, with perfect balance of coffee's sweetness, acidity, and bitterness. Completely without bitterness, only moderate and perfect acidity, with lasting fruity notes.

History and Market

Perhaps Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is the world's most famous coffee, but actually few people know its history or why its price is so high. In 1789, the first person to introduce coffee to Jamaica was a Frenchman escaping the French Revolution. The first coffee cultivated was to increase local French consumption and then export. Moreover, in the first 100 years, the local industry was very small. However, in 1932, the Jamaican Conference passed laws encouraging coffee cultivation to reduce the island's dependence on sugar exports. To ensure Blue Mountain Coffee quality, modifications were made to the "Jamaica Coffee Industry" to standardize processing, improve coffee quality, create marketing equivalence, and save the fate of premium coffee. The Jamaica Industry Association became responsible for the quality of Jamaica's Blue Mountain Coffee. Additionally, the island's lush smaller coffee also grows well, and the Jamaica Industry Association has final authority over all coffee exports - all coffee must pass through the Jamaica Industry Association before export.

The export volume of Blue Mountain Coffee is extremely small. In 1717, French King Louis XV ordered coffee cultivation in Jamaica. In the mid-1720s, Jamaica's Governor Sir Nicholas Lawes imported Arabica seeds from Martinique and began promoting cultivation in the St. Andrew area. To this day, St. Andrew remains one of Jamaica's three major Blue Mountain coffee producing regions, with the other two being Portland and St. Thomas.

Due to Japan's continuous investment in Jamaica's coffee industry, most of today's Blue Mountain Coffee is controlled by the Japanese, who also have priority purchasing rights. In 1992, Jamaica sold 688 tons of Blue Mountain Coffee to Japan, 75 tons to the United States, and 59 tons to the United Kingdom. Now, 90% of Blue Mountain Coffee is purchased by the Japanese. Since the rest of the world can only obtain 10% of Blue Mountain production, Blue Mountain Coffee is always in short supply regardless of price.

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