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Jamaica Blue Mountain
Style
Various blends of coffee intended by their
originators to approximate the qualities of authentic Jamaica Blue
Mountain. These blends may contain no actual Jamaican coffee.
Jamaica Blue Mountain™
Celebrated
single-origin coffee from above 3,000 feet elevation in the Blue
Mountain District of Jamaica. Can be exceptional: rich, complex,
bouillon-like. More often a rather ordinary balanced, low-toned
Caribbean coffee.
Java, Java Arabica
Unlike
most other Indonesia coffees, which are grown on tiny farms and often
primitively processed, Java coffees are grown on large farms or estates,
most operated by the government, and are wet-processed using modern
methods. The best display the low-toned richness characteristic of other
Indonesia coffees, but are usually lighter in body and more acidy. Old
Java, Old Government, or Old Brown are mature coffees from Java, created
to mimic the flavor characteristics of the original Java coffee, which
was inadvertently aged in the holds of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century ships during their passage to Europe.
Jimma, Djimah, Djimma
A
coffee from Ethiopia. Washed Djimah can be an excellent low-acid
coffee. Dry-processed Djimah is a lesser coffee often exhibiting wild or
medicinal taste characteristics and is not often traded as a speciality
coffee.
Jinotega
Market
name for a respected Nicaragua coffee.