Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee 

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is a classification of coffee grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The best lots of Blue Mountain coffee are noted for their mild flavour and lack of bitterness. Over the last several decades, this coffee has developed a reputation that has made it one of the most expensive and sought-after coffees in the world; over 80% of all Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is exported to Japan.  In addition to its use for brewed coffee, the beans are the flavor base of Tia Maria coffee liqueur.

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is a globally protected certification mark, meaning only coffee certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica can be labeled as such. It comes from a recognised growing region in the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica, and its cultivation is monitored by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica.

The Blue Mountains are generally located between Kingston to the south and Port Antonio to the north. Rising to 2,300 metres (7,500 ft), they are some of the highest mountains in the Caribbean. The climate of the region is cool and misty with high rainfall. The soil is rich, with excellent drainage. This combination of climate and soil is considered ideal for coffee.

Ceylon Tea...........especially with the production of black tea .

Ceylon Tea , tea plantations took over 188 175 hectares ( 727 sq mi ) , or about 4 % of the country 's land area is covered in tea plantations . This plant grows best at high altitudes over 2,100 m ( 6,890 feet ) , and the plants require more annual rainfall of 100-125 cm ( 39-49 in) .

Tea is cultivated in Sri Lanka using the ' contour planting ' , where the tea trees are planted in rows in coordination with the contour of the ground , usually on the slopes . For commercial manufacture ' flush ' or leaf grows on the branches and trunk shrub used . 

Generally two leaves and a bud , which has the flavor and aroma , which skillfully plucked , usually by women . Sri Lanka is one of the few countries where each tea leaves are picked by hand rather than by mechanization , if the machine is used , often a large number of leathery leaves and twigs could be mixed in , add bulk but no taste for tea . With experience women have the ability to pluck rapidly and set a daily target of around 15 to 20 kg ( 33-44 lb ) of tea leaves to be weighed and then transported to a nearby tea factory . Sri Lanka tea crop in need of constant care and attention . An important part of the process is to take care of the soil with regular applications of fertilizer . Young plants regularly reduces 10-15 cm ( 4-6 in) from the ground to encourage lateral growth and trimmed very often with a special knife .

Tea factories found on most tea estates in Sri Lanka is very important for the final quality and value of tea produced . After plucking , the tea is very quickly taken to a warehouse to be weighed and monitored muster under strict supervision , and then are transported to factories . A tea factory in Sri Lanka is usually a multi-storey building located in tea plantations and to minimize the costs and time between plucking and processing tea . Leaves are transported to the upper floor of the factories where they are spread in troughs , a process known as withering , which removes the excess moisture in the leaves . After wilting , leaf tea is rolled, twisted and split , which serves as the catalyst for enzyme in the leaves to react with oxygen in the air , especially with the production of black tea .

in 1824 the factory was brought to Ceylon tea by the British from China and planted in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya for non - commercial . Further experimental tea plants brought from Assam and Calcutta in India to Peradeniya in 1839 through the East India Company , and during the following years . In 1839 Ceylon Chamber of Commerce was also established followed by the Association of Planters ' Ceylon in 1854 . In 1867 , James Taylor marked the birth of the tea industry in Ceylon by starting a tea plantation in Loolecondera estate in Kandy in 1867 . He started at a tea plantation to plantation 19 acres ( 76,890 m2 ) . In 1872 he started a tea factory in Loolecondera real and complete the same year that the first sale was made in Kandy Loolecondra tea . In 1873 , the first shipment of Ceylon tea , consigned some 23 pounds ( 10 kg ) , arrived in London . Sir Arthur Conan Doyle commented on the establishment of tea plantations , " ... the tea fields of Ceylon are as true a monument to courage like the lion at Waterloo " .

Soon enough plantations around Loolecondera such as Hope , Rookwood and Mooloya located in the east and Le Vallon and Stellenberg to the south began to turn into a tea plantation and amongst the first tea plantations were established Sri Lanka .