jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Supplier

Cultivating Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

The cultivation process for coffee beans requires patience and attention to detail. Our family farmers have grown coffee beans in the same traditional ways for decades. Generation to generations has learned the best use practice from the older farmers to produce the best tasting coffee in the world.

Farmers have selected special seeds and places than in individual pots to germinate where special attention is given and there the best seedlings are selected and then transplant to the ground. Where there are carefully planted and nurtured. It will take 2-3 years minimum to moderate bearing and 4-5 years until the coffee plant reaches maturity.

When it's reaping season, the cherry ripe beans are handpicked from coffee trees, and the berries are then placed in water. In the water, the lighter berries float to the top and the heavier berries sink to the bottom, this process separates the healthier berries from defected ones. The sunken berries are then taken to the pulpier machine which removes the cherry ripe skin from the seeds; afterwards, it is then placed in a tank where it is washed to remove the syrup, a substance which is on the seeds. Then this substance is removed. The wet seeds (parchment) are then placed on mesh trays for natural drying. The drying process can take up to 5 days. Depending on the humidity of the sun with special attention given for each day to ensure the beans are dried properly to achieve the balance of each bean.

The dried beans are then bagged and taken to the storehouse where it remains under specific conditions until it is ready to hull.

Hulling is where the husk or the outer shell of the seeds is removed. After the hulling, the beans are now called green beans and are polished to remove a silver layer on the outer part of the beans.

The beans are then handpicked and sorted out to a specification to identify defected beans.

They are graded according to size grade 1, 2, 3 and Pea Berry.

Beans are then loaded into wooden barrels and then taken to JACRA formerly coffee board for final inspection and then labelled with 100 per cent Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee on a wooden barrel

Importing Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

The Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica mandates a series of very rigorous checks ahead of providing a certificate that confirms the imported coffee can be sold as official Jamaican Blue Mountain® Coffee. Prior to these checks, all beans are sifted through carefully to ensure that only the best beans are selected. We use a special, slightly smaller barrel in which to transport the coffee beans to our roasting factory in the UK, ensuring that their quality is not compromised in any way.

Before receiving all Jamaican imports, our coffee beans are also assessed and signed off by the Jamaica Agricultural Commodities Regulatory Authority (JACRA).