What is Blue Mountain Flavor Coffee? Is Blue Mountain Flavor Coffee Delicious and How Different is it from the Real Thing?

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Jamaica is the only country in the world with a government coffee management agency—the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board (abbreviated as CIB), which is under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Jamaica. The CIB's functions include cultivation technology guidance, processing training, fair trade, quality supervision, and other matters related to Jamaican Blue Mountain quality and branding. The board members of the CIB are all plantation owners who own a certain scale of coffee plantations in Jamaica (due to industry shifts, newly certified Jamaican Blue Mountain plantations now require an area of over 50 hectares).

CIB stipulates that only Blue Mountain coffee beans produced in the growing regions above 2200 feet in Jamaica can be called Jamaican Blue Mountain. Their grades are classified according to bean size into NO.1, NO.2, NO.3, and hand-selected PB. The basic standards for NO.1 Blue Mountain green beans are beans larger than 17 mesh, defect rate below 3%, moisture content around 13%, etc.

Another company worth mentioning is Coffee Trades, with the plantation name CLYDESDALE. The company's coffee factory is located in the backyard of the CIB office building, with the plantation situated at around 1200 meters on the half-mountain of Blue Mountain. The other two most prominent Blue Mountain coffee companies in Jamaica are Wallenford and Mavis Bank. Both of these companies were originally state-owned enterprises. Wallenford's production exceeds 60% of Jamaica's total Blue Mountain output, while Mavis Bank's production exceeds 20%. Mavis Bank is also one of the few Jamaican Blue Mountain companies that offers all three grades of coffee: Jamaican Blue Mountain, Jamaican High Mountain, and Jamaican Prime Coffee.

What is Blue Mountain Blend Flavor?

The so-called "Blue Mountain Blend" actually has nothing to do with Blue Mountain; this situation arose because early Blue Mountain coffee was very rare and expensive. Operators created coffee with a taste similar to Blue Mountain by mixing different beans with dark roasting to match the Blue Mountain flavor profile. Therefore, conscientious merchants in domestic and international markets will tell customers that this is a blended Blue Mountain, Blue Mountain blend, Blue Mountain flavor, or Blue Mountain-style coffee beans, not genuine Blue Mountain coffee.

Real Blue Mountain and Blue Mountain flavor are two different concepts. Generally, other coffee varieties are roasted to imitate the taste profile of Blue Mountain coffee. "Blue Mountain Blend" beans are mixed, with significant differences in shape, making them relatively easy to identify. Don't believe in "premium Blue Mountain" that costs only tens of yuan per pound or "Blue Mountain coffee" that costs only thirty-something yuan per cup.

Knowledge Point:

Blue Mountain coffee green beans only have one processing method—washed processing. There are no natural or other processing methods.

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