Coffee is a Jamaican Specialty: have you had your Morning Coffee?
Jamaican coffee is a premier product worldwide. The two main types of coffee grown in Jamaica, Jamaica Blue Mountain and Prime coffee. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee grown in the famous Jamaica Blue Mountains in the parish of St. Andrew, Jamaica Prime grown in parishes in Manchester, St. Catherine, Clarendon, St. Ann, St. Elizabeth. Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is cultivated between 2 000 and 5 000 metres above sea level, while Jamaica Prime is grown in a slightly lower height.
Coffee Industry Board business for Jamaica Prime is “Jamaica Mountain Choice Coffee” and it feels like a premium quality gourmet bean in its own right. The world’s most expensive coffee (sold mainly to Japanese and marketed under the brand also partially JABLUM) manufactured in Mavis Bank, St. Andrew.
Mavis Bank Central factory was built in 1923 by English pot and processor Victor Munn (family Munn had produced coffee in the Blue Mountains since 1885).
In the production of coffee beans, spread on a large specific surface to remove 20% of their moisture. Parchment (dried beans) are packed in burlap bags and bring in the warehouse to cure in eight to ten weeks.
After this process, the coffee is mechanically separated depending on size and density and the basis for a balanced roast. Beans are roasted at 150 F for 15 minutes and then cooled in five minutes before the ground. As beans is heated, released the characteristic aroma. The product is packaged in a vacuum sealed bags-, from two ounces to seven-pound bags ready for local and international exhaustion.
Have you had Jamaican coffee experience lately? Waking up to the exquisite scent of Jamaican coffee.
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