Jamaica Blue Mountain Flavor Description and Best Blue Mountain Coffee Brands

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Address: No. 10 Bao'an Qian Street, Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Manufacturer Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Content: 100g
Packaging: Bulk coffee beans
Coffee Bean Raw/Cooked Degree: Roasted coffee beans
Contains Sugar: No sugar
Origin: Jamaica
Roasting Degree: Medium roast

Blue Mountain Coffee refers to coffee brewed from coffee beans grown in Jamaica's Blue Mountains. It is categorized by grade into Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and Jamaica High Mountain Coffee. The Blue Mountain Range is located in the eastern part of Jamaica. When the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the blue sea surface, and the mountain peaks reflect the brilliant blue light of the seawater, hence its name. The highest peak of Blue Mountain reaches an altitude of 2,256 meters, making it the highest peak in the Caribbean region. This area is situated in the coffee belt, with fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, and year-round fog and rain (average precipitation of 1,980 mm, 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

The taste is rich and mellow, with a perfect balance of coffee's sweetness, acidity, and bitterness. It has no bitterness at all, only moderate and perfect acidity, with a lasting fruity flavor.

Perhaps Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is the world's most famous coffee, but actually few people know its history and 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 for 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 the quality of Blue Mountain Coffee, modifications were made to the "Jamaica Coffee Industry" to standardize processing, improve coffee quality, equalize marketing, and save the fate of premium coffee. The Jamaica Industry Association became responsible for the quality of Jamaica's Blue Mountain Coffee. Additionally, the lush smaller coffee farms on the island also grow well, and the Jamaican Coffee Industry Board was given final authority over Jamaica's coffee exports - all coffee must pass through the Jamaica Industry Board before export.

The shipment 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 the three major producing regions of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, 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 for Blue Mountain Coffee. 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. Today, 90% of Blue Mountain Coffee is purchased by the Japanese. Since the rest of the world can only obtain 10% of Blue Mountain Coffee, it is always in short supply regardless of price.

This is the coffee bean packaging, authentic imported Blue Mountain.

Jamaica BLUE MOUNT

Country: Jamaica

Altitude: 1,600 meters

Region: St. Thomas Parish

Roasting Degree: Medium roast

Processing Method: Washed

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

Their coffee trees all grow on rugged mountain slopes, making the harvesting process extremely difficult. Only skilled local women workers can handle this task. It's crucial to select coffee beans that are perfectly ripe during harvesting - underripe or overripe beans will affect the coffee quality. The harvested coffee beans must be hulled the same day, then fermented for 12-18 hours. Afterward, the coffee beans are washed and sorted. 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 dedicated 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 vs. Fake Blue Mountain

1. Appearance

Blue Mountain green beans are blue-green in color, very uniform in appearance, medium to small in size, with slightly upturned ends. After roasting, they increase significantly in volume and become very full.

2. Grinding

Real Blue Mountain coffee beans grow at high altitudes, giving them a relatively loose cytoplasmic structure. When ground by hand, they feel very crisp, smooth, and continuous, without any sense of resistance.

3. Aroma

The aroma is very rich and dense; so-called Blue Mountain blends do not have this aroma.

4. Taste

Real Blue Mountain coffee has a balanced and rich taste, with no single flavor being too prominent or lacking. This is also something that no other coffee bean can achieve, making it the most crucial identification point. Blue Mountain Peaberry beans have a more subtle aroma but relatively stronger taste.

5. Feeling

As the world's best coffee, Blue Mountain Coffee's classic balanced characteristics inevitably bring some subconscious, indescribable satisfaction when tasting.

Hand-Pour Jamaica Blue Mountain

15g powder, medium grind (Fujiyama "ghost tooth" burr grinder #4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water for 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and stop. Wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to halfway, then continue pouring slowly until reaching 225g. Don't use the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

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