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The Unique Features of Three-Cut Pour-Over Coffee Technique - Blue Mountain Coffee Characteristics and Balanced Brewing Guide

Published: 2026-01-28 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

Last Updated: 2026/01/28, Professional coffee knowledge exchange and coffee bean information. Follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat: cafe_style) for more insights. FrontStreet Coffee's brewing techniques and Blue Mountain coffee flavor characteristics. Segmented extraction: After blooming, divide the water into several pours, suitable for light roast, medium-light roast, and medium roast coffee beans. Advantages: More layered than single-pour technique, clearly defining the coffee's front, middle, and back notes.

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FrontStreet Coffee - Pour-over Techniques and Blue Mountain Coffee Flavor Characteristics

Segmented Extraction

After blooming, divide one portion of water into several segments for injection. Suitable for light roast, medium-light roast, and medium roast coffee beans.

Advantages

Compared to single-pour brewing, this method creates richer layers and clearly distinguishes the front, middle, and back-end flavors of coffee. The technique involves increasing water injection volume after blooming, typically injecting when the coffee liquid level drops to near the coffee bed surface, using small, medium, and large water flows for three-stage extraction.

Disadvantages

This method has relatively high requirements for water flow rate and volume.

Segmented extraction involves dividing water into several portions for injection. The most famous segmented extraction method is the three-pour technique. Segmented extraction is also an extension of single-pour brewing. It helps prevent the coffee powder wall at the filter paper edge from being easily broken through, and segmented water injection helps increase coffee powder agitation during brewing. The water flow can penetrate the coffee powder to improve extraction rate.

Blue Mountain Coffee

Blue Mountain Coffee refers to coffee brewed from coffee beans grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The Blue Mountain Range is located in the eastern part of Jamaica Island. When the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the azure Caribbean Sea, and the mountain peaks reflect the brilliant blue light from the seawater, hence its name. The highest peak of Blue Mountain reaches 2,256 meters, making it the highest peak in the Caribbean region and a famous tourist destination.

This area is located in an earthquake zone with fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, and year-round fog and rain. The average rainfall is 1,980 mm, and the temperature is around 27°C. These terroir conditions have created the world-renowned Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, which also ranks as the second most expensive coffee in the world. This coffee possesses all the characteristics of fine coffee - not only is it rich and mellow in flavor, but due to the perfect balance of sweetness, acidity, and bitterness, it has no bitter taste at all, only moderate and perfect acidity.

Whether it's FrontStreet Coffee or other coffee shops, they are enthusiastic about using this technique because it allows for segmented adjustments during brewing, avoiding problems of under-extraction and over-extraction. Today, FrontStreet Coffee will demonstrate segmented extraction using Blue Mountain coffee to see if we can achieve perfect balance of sweetness, acidity, and bitterness with rich flavor.

Pour-over Parameters

15g coffee powder, Kono dripper, water temperature 86°C, powder-to-water ratio 1:15, grind size BG 6W (medium-coarse grind).

Technique

Bloom with 30g of water for 30 seconds. Inject evenly with small water flow to 125g for segmentation. When the water level drops and is about to expose the coffee bed, continue injecting to 220g, then stop the water. When about to expose the coffee bed, remove the dripper. Do not use the last 5g of water. Start timing from the beginning of blooming, extraction time should be around 1 minute 50 seconds.

Flavor

Lively aroma, balanced body/acidity, smooth mouthfeel, persistent aftertaste.

Knowledge Extension

Blue Mountain Coffee comes from Jamaica, which is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea.

In Brief

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