Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Brands and Blue Mountain Coffee Brewing Steps

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The Origin and History of Blue Mountain Coffee

The production volume of Blue Mountain Coffee is extremely rare. In 1717, King Louis XV of France 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 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 the Portland and St. Thomas regions.

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

FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain Coffee Specifications

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

Jamaica BLUE MOUNT

• Country: Jamaica
• Altitude: 1600 meters
• Region: St. Thomas Parish
• Roast Level: Medium roast
• Processing Method: Washed

FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain Coffee - The "Secret" to Its Pure Flavor

FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain coffee trees all grow on rugged mountain slopes, making the harvesting process extremely difficult. Only local skilled female workers can handle this challenging task. It is crucial to select coffee beans that are perfectly ripe during harvesting – 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 coffee beans undergo washing and screening. 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%. 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, the coffee quality will be affected.

• Variety: Typica
• Processing Mill: Abbey Green Farm
• Flavor: Perfect balance of sweet, acidic, and bitter notes

How to Identify Authentic Blue Mountain Coffee

1. Appearance

FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain green beans are blue-green in color, very uniform in appearance, and medium to small in size with slightly curved ends. After roasting, they expand significantly in volume and become very full-bodied.

2. Grinding

Authentic FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain 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 resistance.

3. Aroma

The aroma is very rich and dense; so-called "blended Blue Mountain coffee" does not have this characteristic aroma.

4. Taste

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

5. Sensation

FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain coffee, as the world's finest coffee, possesses classic balanced characteristics. When tasting, there is inevitably some subconscious, indescribable sense of satisfaction.

Hand Brew Method for FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain

15g coffee grounds, medium grind (Fuji Royal hand grinder with ghost tooth burrs, setting 4), V60 dripper, water temperature 88-89°C. First pour 30g of water for a 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level in the coffee bed drops to half before continuing to pour. Slowly pour until reaching 225g, avoiding the final tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio is 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

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
Bean State: Roasted coffee beans
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Jamaica
Roast Level: Medium roast

FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain Coffee - The Complete Story

FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain coffee refers to coffee brewed from coffee beans produced in Jamaica's Blue Mountains. These are further 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 Island. Because the mountain is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, on clear days when sunlight directly hits the azure sea surface, the peaks reflect the brilliant blue light of the seawater, hence its 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, possessing fertile volcanic soil, fresh air free from pollution, humid climate, and 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

The taste is rich and mellow, with perfect balance of coffee's sweet, acidic, and bitter notes. It has no bitterness at all, only moderate and perfect acidity, with a persistent fruit flavor.

Perhaps Jamaica's FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain coffee is the world's most famous coffee, but actually very few people know its history or why its price is so high. In 1789, the first person to introduce coffee to Jamaica Island was a Frenchman escaping the French Revolution. The first coffee cultivated was intended 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. For the quality assurance of Blue Mountain Coffee, modifications were made to the "Jamaica Coffee Industry" to standardize processing, improve coffee quality, achieve marketing equivalence, and save the fate of premium coffee. The Jamaica Coffee Industry Board became responsible for the quality of Jamaica's Blue Mountain Coffee. Additionally, the island's abundant smaller coffee grows equally well, and the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board was given final authority over Jamaica's coffee exports – all coffee must pass through the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board before export.

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