Jamaican Blue Mountain
Also called Blue Mountain, Jamaica Blue Mountain
The Typica selection of Jamaica's Blue Mountains, also planted in Kenya and Papua New Guinea.
- Species
- Coffea arabica
- Lineage
- Typica selection, Jamaica
- Stature
- Tall
- Yield
- Low to medium
- Best altitude
- 900–1,700 m
- Leaf rust
- Susceptible
- Coffee berry disease
- Resistant
- Quality
- Very good
Where it grows
- Blue Mountains, Jamaica (where it began)
- Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Kiambu, Kenya
About
Blue Mountain grew out of the Typica trees planted in Jamaica in the 18th century, on the misty slopes east of Kingston. "Jamaica Blue Mountain" is also a protected name: only coffee from set parishes of the Blue Mountains may use it, whatever the variety.
The variety itself travelled. Kenya planted it for its resistance to coffee berry disease, and much of the coffee in Papua New Guinea's highlands comes from Jamaican Blue Mountain seed.
From Wikipedia
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee or Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is a classification of coffee grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The coffee was introduced to Jamaica in 1728.
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is an Arabica coffee-bean variety called Typica, which originated in southwestern Ethiopia.
The best lots of Blue Mountain coffee are noted for their mild flavour and lack of bitterness. Over the past few decades, this coffee has developed a reputation that has made it one of the world's most expensive and sought-after coffees. Over 80% of all Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is exported to Japan. In addition to their use for brewed coffee, the beans are the flavour base of Tia Maria coffee liqueur.
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is a globally protected certification mark, meaning only coffee certified by the Jamaica Commodities Regulatory Authority (previously the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica) can be labelled as such. It comes from a recognised growing region in the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica, and the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica monitors its cultivation.
Generally located between Kingston to the south and Port Antonio to the north, the Blue Mountains are some of the highest mountains in the Caribbean, rising to 2,256 metres (7,402 ft). The region's climate is cool and misty with high rainfall, and the soil is rich with excellent drainage, conditions considered ideal for coffee cultivation.
Text from the Wikipedia article Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.