What is Blue Mountain Flavor Coffee_Uncovering the Truth About Blue Mountain Flavor Coffee Bean Prices and Quality

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The Deception of "Flavored" Coffee

Starting from the 1990s, Western restaurants or cafes in China began labeling their offerings as "Blue Mountain flavored coffee" or "Mandheling flavored coffee." In reality, any thoughtful person would realize this is just a word game played by merchants. Blue Mountain coffee is Blue Mountain coffee, and Mandheling coffee is Mandheling coffee. Adding the word "flavored" is like a pig trying to pass as an elephant by sticking scallions in its nose. It's like seeing a beautiful girl on the street carrying a bag that's obviously in LV style, only to get closer and find the letters on the bag read "LU" instead.

The Truth Behind "Flavored" Labels

The reasoning is quite simple. Now, if these merchants are labeling their coffee as Blue Mountain flavored or Mandheling flavored, does that mean their coffee has any relationship to actual Blue Mountain or Mandheling coffee?

The answer is: Absolutely no relationship! There's no connection whatsoever in terms of coffee bean varieties or flavor profiles!

If we must say there's any relationship, it might be that certain merchants take advantage of people's limited or complete lack of knowledge about Blue Mountain coffee, arbitrarily blend various cheap coffee beans together, and sell them at the premium high prices of authentic Blue Mountain coffee.

The Mandheling Flavored Coffee Outrage

Of course, it must be said that if merchants use the Blue Mountain coffee banner to sell inferior products for higher profits, then Mandheling flavored coffee is even more infuriating. Unlike Blue Mountain, Mandheling coffee has a very accessible price that ordinary consumers can completely accept. Why not just sell Mandheling coffee directly? Why do merchants still use various coffee beans to piece together a "Mandheling flavored" coffee? With my limited imagination, I can only understand that the cheap coffee beans used to make Mandheling flavored coffee basically couldn't be sold if their actual varieties were revealed, so they can only ride the edge and sell whatever they can. What the hell?

The Art of True Coffee Blending

Of course, it must be emphasized here that blended beans are not inherently bad. The key point is that blended coffee is not about mixing some bad coffee beans together to sell inferior products while impersonating famous coffee products on the market. True blended coffee reasonably combines different types and characteristics of coffee beans. Roasters, by comparing the personality traits of coffee beans from different origins, blend several different coffee beans together in reasonable proportions, enhancing strengths while avoiding weaknesses. Combined with different roasting techniques, they create blended coffee products that are both distinctive and widely accepted by the public. For example, various flavored Italian blend coffees created through reasonable combinations of different coffee beans deeply embody the roaster's understanding and attitude toward different coffee beans.

Final Warning to Coffee Lovers

Finally, as someone who has been struggling in the coffee industry for many years, I'd like to kindly remind all my friends: if you want to buy a certain type of coffee bean and it's followed by the word "flavored," you can basically conclude that it has little to do with the coffee flavor you originally wanted to buy. You might buy a bag of "Blue Mountain flavored coffee beans," only to find when you taste it that it's nothing more than the flavor of Brokeback Mountain.

FrontStreet Coffee doesn't sell various flavored coffee beans. We only offer high-quality coffee from origins worldwide. Our Blue Mountain coffee beans are authentic Blue Mountain No.1 coffee imported from Jamaica, our Mandheling is from Sumatra Island, Indonesia, and our Geisha coffee beans are pure Geisha—

Luo Yonghao once said: For those who are ahead of their time, being misunderstood or even humiliated is fate, but overall, those who are ahead of their time still come out ahead.

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