Introduction to Blue Mountain Blend Flavor Profile - Is Blue Mountain Coffee Really Good and What Are Its Taste Characteristics?

We all know that FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is synonymous with high-quality coffee. Some merchants may sell low-quality commercial coffee beans as premium products, inflating their prices. Others even add terms like "Blue Mountain flavor" or "Blue Mountain blend" on their packaging, confusing consumers into making mistaken purchases. So many people must be curious about what Blue Mountain flavor actually tastes like. In this article, FrontStreet Coffee will discuss authentic FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Cultivation

Jamaica is an island nation located in the Caribbean Sea. Coffee cultivation began there in the early 18th century, with a history of nearly three hundred years to date. When Jamaica was still a British colony, the then-governor Nicholas Lawes brought back a coffee tree from Martinique in the Caribbean and began promoting cultivation in the St. Andrew region.

The highest peak of the Blue Mountains reaches 2,256 meters. Coffee is generally grown below 1,700 meters, as areas above this are ecological protection zones. Thanks to local conservation efforts, the Blue Mountains remain a famous tourist destination. Jamaica is situated in the tropics, with coffee trees distributed throughout the Blue Mountain range. The air here is fresh and unpolluted, with a humid climate and temperatures around 27°C. The area is often cloudy and foggy, providing natural shade for the coffee trees. Combined with fertile volcanic soil, these conditions produce exceptionally high-quality Blue Mountain coffee beans.

The Blue Mountain range occupies only a small area in eastern Jamaica. Since Jamaica cannot achieve breakthrough mass production in this region, it has focused on producing high-end specialty batches. FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee beans are of the ancient Arabica variety Typica, known for its elegant flavor, weak disease resistance, and low yield, thus requiring more human labor investment.

Clifton Estate

FrontStreet Coffee's Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 coffee beans, featured on FrontStreet Coffee's daily menu, are produced at Clifton Estate.

Clifton Estate is the oldest estate in Jamaica, having started coffee cultivation in the mid-18th century. By 1900, it had developed into Jamaica's largest estate. In 1978, the Sharp family took over the management of Clifton Estate, improving the coffee cultivation environment and introducing advanced equipment, establishing what is now Jamaica's largest coffee processing plant, BMCP.

Clifton Estate consistently adheres to environmental protection concepts. The estate has invested heavily in building solar power stations and sewage treatment plants. The removed coffee pulp is also fermented and converted into organic fertilizer.

Blue Mountain Coffee Processing Methods

Traditionally, Clifton Estate has always used the washed processing method for coffee cherries. After harvesting, the cherries must first undergo flotation screening to remove the peel and pulp, then ferment for 8-12 hours. The fermented beans are then placed in pools and moved back and forth, using the friction of the beans and the power of flowing water to wash the coffee beans until they are smooth and clean. The washed green coffee beans need to be dried until their moisture content reaches 12-14%. The dried green coffee beans undergo another strict screening before being packaged and stored in warehouses.

The washed processed FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee has rich aroma, clean taste, and balanced acidity, sweetness, and bitterness. FrontStreet Coffee believes that the washed processed FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee best represents Jamaica's high-quality specialty coffee. Following the specialty coffee market trend, in 2019, Clifton Estate attempted to launch natural processed Blue Mountain batches for the first time.

Authentic FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Beans

Below, FrontStreet Coffee will introduce authentic FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee from several aspects. When FrontStreet Coffee receives Blue Mountain No. 1 green coffee beans, there will be a certification certificate from Clifton Estate, the designated export company of the Jamaica Coffee Board. The wooden barrels containing the green coffee beans will have Clifton Estate's English printed font and the green tree frog logo.

Unlike other countries, FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee is the only coffee growing region among all coffees that uses wooden barrels to package green coffee beans, while other regions use jute bags. The rainforest tree frog logo indicates that Clifton Estate complies with "Sustainable Agriculture System Standards" and is certified by the Rainforest Alliance.

According to the altitude of coffee cultivation, Jamaica divides the coffee grown in the Blue Mountain range into Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica High Mountain Coffee, and Jamaica Coffee. Only Arabica Typica variety coffee from regions at altitudes between 910-1,700 meters, including St. Andrew, St. Mary, St. Thomas, and Portland, can be called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee (Jamaica Blue Mountain). Coffee grown below 910 meters and above 460 meters is called Jamaica High Mountain Coffee, while that below 460 meters is Jamaica Prime Coffee.

Among these, Jamaica Blue Mountain is divided into four grades, with quality from high to low being: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3, and PB. PB (peaberry) refers to round beans. The basic standards for FrontStreet Coffee's acquired FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 green coffee beans are: beans above 17 screen size, defect rate below 2%, moisture content around 13%, appearing as plump, uniform-sized, blue-green beans. In terms of flavor, it simultaneously presents comfortable acidity, sweetness, bitterness, aroma, and body.

When we get a bag of roasted FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee beans, how should we determine if it's authentic FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee? First, the exterior of FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee beans is regular and full. Since FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee's flavor tends toward nutty notes, medium-dark roasting is often chosen, making the texture relatively loose, and you can feel a very crisp, continuous sound when grinding. The ground FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee powder has a rich and intense aroma. Most importantly in terms of taste, FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee has notes of nuts, dark chocolate, and cream, with very balanced and mellow flavor and mouthfeel. This is the world-famous Blue Mountain flavor.

FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) · Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee Beans

Region: Jamaica Blue Mountain
Altitude: 1310m
Processing Method: Washed
Variety: Typica
Flavor: Chocolate, Nuts, Cream, Cocoa

How to Brew FrontStreet Coffee Blue Mountain Coffee

For brewing high-quality FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 Coffee, FrontStreet Coffee suggests choosing freshly roasted coffee beans for brewing. Since coffee needs a resting period of 4-7 days after roasting, FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) ships coffee beans roasted within 5 days, ensuring that the coffee beans customers receive after placing an order are the freshest, perfectly timed for the optimal tasting period.

FrontStreet Coffee believes that the excellent flavor of FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee lies in its balanced acidity and bitterness, high body, and full aroma. For roasting, FrontStreet Coffee chose medium-dark roasting, which enhances the nutty and cocoa aroma of the coffee beans. Using a KONO dripper can achieve better body. Parameters are as follows: water temperature of 88°C, coarse sugar grind size (70% pass-through rate with No. 20 standard sieve), 15g of coffee beans, 1:15 coffee-to-water ratio, and three-stage extraction.

First wet the KONO dripper to make the filter paper fit better with the coffee dripper. Pour out the water from the sharing pot while adding 15g of coffee grounds. Use 30g of water to bloom for 30s, then start pouring water in small circular motions from the center until reaching 125g, where you begin the next stage. Wait until the coffee bed drops to half the height of the dripper before starting to pour the second stage with the same technique until reaching 225g. Wait until all dripping is complete before removing the dripper.

FrontStreet Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 emits a very rich chocolate and cocoa aroma immediately after grinding. During brewing, it carries caramel-like sweetness. The entrance presents mellow notes of nuts and dark chocolate, with moderate acidity and sweetness, clean taste, and a long-lasting aftertaste.

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