How Did Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Originate and How Are Blue Mountain Coffee Beans Classified

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This is the packaging of coffee beans - authentic imported Blue Mountain.

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

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

Variety: Typica

Processing Plant: Abbey Green Farm

Flavor Profile: Perfect balance of sweet, sour, and bitter notes

How to Identify Authentic Blue Mountain Coffee

1. Appearance

Blue Mountain coffee's raw beans are blue-green in color, very uniform in appearance, and medium to small in size with slightly upturned ends. After roasting, they expand significantly in volume and become very plump.

2. Grinding

Real Blue Mountain coffee beans are grown at high altitudes, giving them a relatively loose cytoplasmic structure. When ground manually, they feel very crisp, smooth, and consistent, without any sense of resistance.

3. Aroma

The aroma is very rich and dense; so-called Blue Mountain coffee blends do not possess this type of aroma.

4. Taste

Authentic Blue Mountain coffee has a balanced and rich flavor, with no single taste being too prominent or lacking - this is also the most critical identification point that no other coffee bean can match. Blue Mountain peaberries have a more subtle aroma and 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.

Pour-over Jamaica Blue Mountain

15g coffee grounds, medium grind (Komachi grinder with Fujiyama ghost teeth, setting 4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water and bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g, then stop the water flow and wait until the coffee bed's water level drops to halfway before continuing to pour. Slowly pour until reaching 225g, discarding the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

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

What is Blue Mountain Coffee?

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 Mountains are located in eastern Jamaica. When the weather is clear, the sun directly hits the azure sea surface, and the peaks reflect the brilliant blue glow of the seawater, hence the name. The highest peak in Blue Mountain reaches 2256 meters, making it the highest peak in the Caribbean region. This area is situated in the coffee belt, featuring fertile volcanic soil, fresh air without pollution, humid climate with year-round fog and rainfall (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 taste, with perfect balance of coffee's sweet, sour, and bitter notes, completely free from bitterness, with only moderate and perfect acidity, and lasting fruit flavors.

Perhaps Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is the world's most famous coffee, but in reality, 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 cultivation was intended to increase local consumption for France and then export. Moreover, in the first 100 years, the local industry was very small. However, in 1932, Jamaican conference laws were passed to encourage coffee cultivation to reduce the island's dependence on sugar exports. To ensure Blue Mountain coffee quality, modifications were made to "Jamaica Coffee Industry" to standardize processing, improve coffee quality, achieve marketing parity, 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 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 before export.

Blue Mountain coffee's export volume is extremely small. 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, 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 Blue Mountain coffee is now controlled by Japanese interests, and they have 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. Now, 90% of Blue Mountain coffee is purchased by Japanese buyers. Since the rest of the world can only obtain 10% of Blue Mountain production, regardless of price, Blue Mountain coffee is always in short supply.

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