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Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Flavor Profile: Types and Pricing

Published: 2026-01-27 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

Last Updated: 2026/01/27, Professional barista discussions - follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). The secret behind Blue Mountain coffee's pure flavor: all their coffee trees grow on steep mountain slopes, making harvesting extremely difficult. Only skilled local female workers can handle this task. Selecting coffee beans at the perfect ripeness is crucial - underripe or overripe beans will compromise the coffee quality

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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 skilled local female workers can handle the job. Selecting perfectly ripe coffee cherries during harvest is crucial, as under-ripe or over-ripe cherries will affect coffee quality. After harvesting, coffee beans must be hulled the same day, then fermented for 12-18 hours. Following this, the coffee beans undergo washing and sorting. The next step is drying, which must be conducted on concrete floors or thick blankets until the coffee beans' moisture content drops to 12%-14%. They are then stored in specialized warehouses. When needed, they are taken out for roasting and then ground into powder. These procedures must be strictly controlled; otherwise, coffee quality will be compromised.

Product Specifications

Variety: Typica

Processing Plant: Abbey Green Farm

Flavor: Perfect balance of sweet, acidic, and bitter notes

How to Identify Authentic Blue Mountain Coffee

1. Appearance

Raw Blue Mountain coffee beans are blue-green in color, appear very uniform, medium to small in size, with slightly curved ends. After roasting, they expand significantly in volume and appear 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 consistent, without any sense of resistance.

3. Aroma

The aroma is very rich and dense; so-called blended Blue Mountain coffee lacks this characteristic aroma.

4. Taste

True Blue Mountain coffee has a balanced and rich flavor, without any single taste being too prominent or lacking—this is the most crucial identification point that no other coffee bean can match. Blue Mountain peaberry coffee has a more subtle aroma but relatively stronger taste.

5. Sensation

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

Hand-Pour Jamaica Blue Mountain

15g coffee, medium grind (small Fuji ghost teeth blade #4), V60 dripper, 88-89°C water temperature. First pour with 30g water, bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g and stop. Wait until the water level drops to halfway, then slowly pour 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
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 categorized into Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee and Jamaica High Mountain coffee by grade level. The Blue Mountains are located in eastern Jamaica. The mountain got its name because on clear days, when direct sunlight hits the azure Caribbean Sea, the peaks reflect the brilliant blue light from the seawater. The highest peak of Blue Mountain reaches 2,256 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 rainfall (average precipitation of 1,980mm and 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 taste, perfect balance of coffee's sweet, acidic, and bitter notes, completely without bitterness, only moderate and perfect acidity, with persistent fruit flavors.

History and Market

Perhaps Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is the most famous coffee in the world, but 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 fleeing the French Revolution. The first coffee grown was intended to increase local French consumption and then export. Moreover, the local industry remained very small for the first 100 years. However, in 1932, Jamaican conference legislation was passed to encourage 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, equalize marketing, and save the fate of premium coffee. The Jamaica Industry Association took responsibility for the quality of Jamaica's Blue Mountain coffee. Additionally, the island's abundant smaller coffee also grows well, and the association has final authority over Jamaica's coffee exports—all coffee must pass through the Jamaica Industry Association to be exported.

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

Due to Japan's continuous investment in Jamaica's coffee industry, most Blue Mountain coffee is now controlled by the Japanese, who have also obtained 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, Blue Mountain coffee is always in short supply regardless of price.