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The Premium Value of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

Before Geisha coffee was discovered, Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee represented the pinnacle of premium coffee. The inherently rare and precious Blue Mountain coffee, due to its tremendous reputation, was driven to prices exceeding one hundred yuan per cup, which could be considered astronomical for the working class at that time. So why does FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee command such a high price? FrontStreet Coffee must begin by explaining what constitutes authentic Blue Mountain coffee.

What is Authentic Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

The Blue Mountain range, where Blue Mountain coffee is produced, features treacherous terrain with steep slopes. It is the highest elevation area in the Caribbean Sea, characterized by a tropical rainforest climate. During the rainy season, annual precipitation reaches 1800-2000 millimeters. The sloped steep mountainside provides excellent drainage systems, allowing local vegetation to receive adequate irrigation. Coffee trees are typically intercropped with banana and avocado trees. The Blue Mountain region boasts beautiful scenery, high-quality air, and fertile volcanic soil that promotes coffee fruits with full flavor development. The high-altitude Blue Mountains are often shrouded in clouds and mist, providing natural shade effects for coffee trees.

To distinguish Blue Mountain from ordinary Jamaican coffee, the Jamaican government established a special grading system. Only Typica variety coffee beans certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica (CIB), grown at elevations between 910-1700 meters in the Blue Mountain range, may be called Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee. The certified growing area covers only 6000 hectares, representing one-third of the entire Blue Mountain region. Only about 15% of all coffee produced in Jamaica can bear the prestigious Blue Mountain coffee name. The higher the altitude, the more challenging the harvesting process and the higher the labor management costs. During each harvest season, local women familiar with the terrain are arranged to climb the mountains to pick coffee fruits at optimal ripeness, ensuring the quality of the coffee beans.

Processing Methods for Quality Enhancement

To achieve more stable flavor and quality, estates producing Blue Mountain coffee employ washed processing methods, removing defective beans through multiple stages to enhance the clarity of FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain coffee aroma. The FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain coffee on FrontStreet Coffee's bean list uses washed processing and comes from Clifton Estate. Clifton Estate places freshly harvested coffee cherries into water tanks for flotation, removing pulp and skin before fermentation. Overnight fermentation produces abundant acidic substances that help separate the mucilage layer from the surface. The parchment beans are then dried under sunlight until moisture content reaches standards, after which they are packaged and stored in warehouses before being sent for quality inspection. The washing process allows FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain beans to showcase cleaner, more transparent flavors and more stable quality.

Quality Grading System

After drying, Blue Mountain green beans must be graded based on multiple evaluation criteria, including size, color, moisture content, and cupping quality after roasting. Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is classified into different grades based on various characteristics: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3, and Peaberry. NO.1 represents the highest grade—what we commonly call Blue Mountain Number One coffee. The green beans must meet specifications of 17-18 screen size, with a defect rate below 3%, uniform particle size, full-bodied beans, and flavor characteristics exhibiting balanced richness, aroma, sweetness, and acidity. Achieving such top-tier Blue Mountain coffee requires more labor investment, with manual selection and removal of inferior quality beans, which is why premium quality Blue Mountain coffee is so precious.

Grade Screen Size (Defect Rate ≤3%): No.1: 17-18, No.2: 16, No.3: 15, PB (Peaberry): 10

Characteristics of Authentic Blue Mountain Number One Coffee

Blue Mountain coffee's use of wooden barrel packaging for green beans makes it distinctive from the moment of purchase. Compared to the coarse burlap bags commonly used in other growing regions, oak barrels offer advantages in absorbing and releasing internal and external humidity while preventing coffee aroma from escaping, helping maintain more stable moisture content and more consistent roasting. Jamaican coffee wooden barrels come in three different specifications: 70kg, 30kg, and 15kg.

FrontStreet Coffee can observe Blue Mountain-related information by examining the wooden barrels. The top of the barrel features CIB certification logos printed on the lid, with registered exporter and official importer shipping marks printed on each batch shipment barrel. For example, FrontStreet Coffee's comes from Clifton Estate, along with the tropical rainforest tree frog logo on the barrel body. Additionally, FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain Number One coffee possesses quality certification certificates issued by the Jamaica Coffee Board, authorized sales certificates issued by Blue Mountain coffee manufacturers, and Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee certificates of origin.

When FrontStreet Coffee received the Blue Mountain Number One green beans, they were uniform, full-bodied, and evenly sized, displaying an overall translucent blue-green color. After roasting, FrontStreet Coffee conducted cupping tests, revealing dry aroma notes of nuts, melon, and chocolate. After adding hot water, aromas of oolong tea, caramel, honey, and dark chocolate emerged. The tasting experience revealed rich dark chocolate, roasted hazelnut, cream, and brown sugar flavors, with clean and clear characteristics, rich mouthfeel, and persistent aroma.

Pricing and Availability

Such premium Blue Mountain Number One coffee beans are listed by FrontStreet Coffee at 158 yuan per 100g package. If you wish to taste hand-poured black coffee directly, you can visit FrontStreet Coffee's Dongshankou store to order. Hand-poured FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Number One coffee costs 60 yuan per cup.

How to Brew Perfect FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Number One Coffee

FrontStreet Coffee believes that a delicious cup of coffee depends on excellent varieties, exquisite processing methods, appropriate roasting levels, coffee bean freshness, and corresponding extraction parameters. The top-tier Blue Mountain Number One coffee beans have already been carefully selected from such exceptional batches, leaving only the brewing work to be done. FrontStreet Coffee recommends choosing freshly roasted coffee beans. If coffee beans have been stored for more than a month and a half, their aroma may have dissipated, making it difficult to achieve full flavor expression. Coffee beans shipped by FrontStreet Coffee are all freshly roasted within 5 days, generally ensuring they are within the optimal tasting period when received.

FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is roasted to a relatively dark degree, with bean texture being relatively loose and highly absorbent, making it prone to over-extraction. Therefore, a slightly coarser grind size (75% pass-through rate on #20 standard sieve) and lower water temperature (88 degrees Celsius) are used for extraction. Additionally, FrontStreet Coffee hopes to achieve richer mouthfeel, so filter cups with slower flow rates are chosen, such as KONO filter cups.

FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain Hand-Pour Method

15g coffee grounds, 1:15 coffee-to-water ratio, three-stage extraction.

Pour the ground coffee into a preheated filter cup. For the first step, inject 30g of water for blooming and start timing. Pour water in small circular motions from the center. After 30 seconds, begin the second pour to reach 125g, trying to elevate the coffee bed while maintaining steady water flow throughout. When the liquid level drops to half, continue with the final pour to reach a total of 225g. Wait until all coffee liquid has finished dripping before removing the filter cup, with total time around two minutes. Shake the coffee in the sharing pot evenly, and you can begin enjoying the aromatic FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain coffee.

During the brewing process of FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain coffee, you can smell rich roasted nuts and caramel aromas. Upon tasting, you experience dark chocolate and nutty sweetness, with various flavors intertwining and blending, creating a rich mouthfeel and bright aftertaste.

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