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FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

Whether you're a coffee lover or not, the term "Blue Mountain Coffee" is likely familiar to everyone! In real life, when coffee wasn't yet so popular in China, a cup of "Blue Mountain" costing over a hundred yuan on café menus effectively introduced the Chinese people to premium coffee, though many also paid what amounted to an "intelligence tax." Although later everyone learned that most Blue Mountain coffee was fake, the reputation of Blue Mountain Coffee was significantly promoted.

In its early years, Blue Mountain Coffee was indeed an iconic product in the coffee industry. Almost everyone who has heard of Blue Mountain Coffee knows it as the world's most superior coffee, with no close competitors. Its expensive price and the reputation as "King of Coffee" complement each other, always receiving unanimous pursuit from both connoisseurs and amateurs. It's said that Queen Elizabeth II's favorite was Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, a reputation that gave it its own distinctive character and turned it into an eternal myth.

The variety of Blue Mountain Coffee is Typica, which is the leading coffee bean among the three major coffee varieties - Arabica. Arabica is the most commonly used coffee bean in today's specialty coffee scene, and its derived variety Typica inherits first-class aroma and flavor. This is why Blue Mountain Coffee can be regarded as one of the premium coffees pursued by many.

Unique geographical advantages are essential factors in achieving the balanced flavor of Blue Mountain Coffee. As an island nation in the Caribbean Sea, the sea breeze and Blue Mountains together bring abundant rainfall and fertile soil to this coffee-growing region. The volcanic rock soil and relatively modest altitude give Blue Mountain Coffee a gentle and mellow flavor.

The Jamaican government agency responsible for coffee affairs oversees, regulates, and guides the cultivation, processing, and trade of Jamaican coffee. The committee has established quality standards for Jamaican coffee: Blue Mountain Coffee must be grown at an altitude of 910-1,700 meters to be called genuine Blue Mountain Coffee. For the precious Blue Mountain Coffee, the Jamaican government also uses distinctive packaging and transportation methods. Unlike other coffees packaged and transported in cloth bags of 60kg each, Blue Mountain Coffee is packaged and transported in wooden barrels at a standard of 70kg per barrel.

Blue Mountain Coffee is graded by the size of its green beans: Blue Mountain Coffee above 17 mesh is NO.1, above 16 mesh is NO.2, and above 15 mesh is NO.3. Therefore, the Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee NO.1 fresh green beans we usually see are deep green in color, with a waxy texture, smooth, full, and round surface, like green gems from Central America. FrontStreet Coffee's Blue Mountain Coffee comes from this grade.

Due to its expensive price, Blue Mountain Coffee has a relatively fixed consumer group, with its sales mainly concentrated in Japan, followed by some European and American countries. It uses medium roasting, which preserves the coffee's original flavor to the greatest extent while enhancing its aftertaste. In early years, a cup of Blue Mountain Coffee could cost over a hundred yuan. With the development of the coffee industry, the price of Blue Mountain has slightly decreased. At FrontStreet Coffee, a cup of Blue Mountain costs only 60 yuan, and it's genuine Blue Mountain Coffee from the highest growing altitude.

Knowledge Extension

Blue Mountain Coffee's ability to maintain its premium status today is closely related to local business policies. In 1932, Jamaica passed policies encouraging coffee production to reduce the island's dependence on sugar exports.

Conclusion

In short: FrontStreet Coffee is a coffee research hall, happy to share coffee knowledge with everyone. We share without reservation only to help more friends fall in love with coffee, and we hold low-discount coffee activities three times every month. This is because FrontStreet Coffee wants to let more friends drink the best coffee at the lowest price, which has been FrontStreet Coffee's mission for the past 6 years!

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