Coffee from Around the World - Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

I'm quite sure a few people that read this will have heard of Jamaican Blue Moutain coffee - it has quite a notoriety if only for the high prices it commands. You can tell this coffee is exclusive, because it does not come in hessian sacks like the regular green coffee I purchase - this comes in wooden barrels!

The last delivery van that brought me two of these 15kg came right before Guy Forkes (5th November) in the UK and he said when he had these put on the van in the morning he drove with extreme care all day in case they were gunpowder kegs!

The green coffee beans do look a bit more special then the regular fair - the size is far more even and you are unlikely to finds defects. These are sorted to extreme precision - only the best beans of the exact same size will do. Jamaican Blue Mountain is expensive - 15kg in that wooden barrel would set you back £1350 GBP trade ($1831 USD) - this coffee is nearly as valuable as STEEM!

The beans roasted, I mostly only sell this green. Roasting coffee is not straight forward, you can go wrong and make mistakes - if you are obsessive about your coffee quality then you have to accept sometimes you get the roast wrong and the load is wasted. This is one coffee you do not want to get wrong! So I try not to roast it and sell it green for others to worry about, but one customer always comes back for two kilos each year - it's a roast that makes me sweat more then any others. When you roast green coffee it looses weight as the moisture is released from roasting - so if you want 2kg of roasted you need to roast more then 2kg - how much more is very dependant on the the green coffee, the roasting machine and how dark you roast. 10% weight drop is an average (so for 2kg of roasted I would need 2.2kg of green) but it varies so much you need to put in upto 50% more then you need out to ensure you can fulfil your order. This is not ideal for an very expensive coffee like this - but guess who get's to enjoy the left overs 😋

With the very high price of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee you would expect it to be an incredible tasting cup - it's very good, smooth, full bodied little acidity - really a great cup. But other factors dictate the price, I sell other coffee's that personally I think taste better for a tiny fraction of the price Jamaican Blue Mountain commands. The price is dictated by many factors, this coffee is rare the growing estate produces small amounts and supply / demand means it get's a high price, the coffee grows on particularly mountainous regions in Jamaica only so is hard to cultivate and even harder to harvest adding to the price. Also it is a brand name, it has a following and the prestige that goes with it.

As I had to roast a little more then I needed to sell, we can enjoy a fresh cup. At going on for £100 per kilo this aeropress brew of 10g will be worth £1 - ten times more then normal coffees. Nearly as overpriced as Bitcoin -_-

Once ground I could have lost 10 pence in ground coffee still in the grinder - so I kept starting and stopping it and gently nudging (bashing the hell out of it) to get every last grind out.

Adding hot (not boiling water - no more then 90 degrees Celsius) we get a lovely creamy brown head from this coffee - just a few days from roasting we can truly enjoy the best flavour.

Let's take the plunge, slow and steady to extract all that amazing taste and flavour from this unique coffee.

Rich colour from this freshly brewed cup, and the aroma is to die for.

Let's do a close up as well, this is an expensive cup of coffee may as well get the most from it!

And the taste, I'm smiling so it has to be good! An amazing rich flavoured cup of very, very special coffee. Better then any other? It's unique and special, but I get to roast and taste coffee from every growing region in the world, so much work is put into the growing, harvesting and processing of coffee - it's incredible and if you get fresh green coffee, roast it as well as you can every coffee available can be amazing. Jamaican Blue Mountain has a name and a well deserved following, it is a fantastic tasting coffee - but if you can find a local small batch coffee roaster you might just find freshly roasted coffee as good or even better - and still have spare change to invest in Steemit and Steem Power.

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