SUN Blue Mountain Dark Roast Organic Fairtrade - coffee beans - 1 kilo

No. The SUN Blue Mountain grows in Papua New Guinea and not in Jamaica. The Blue Mountain coffee plant does originally come from Jamaica: in the nineteen twenties, seeds were taken to Papua New Guinea, where the conditions turned out to be ideal.

So here you are buying coffee of Blue Mountain origin from the highlands of Papua New Guinea. That is a different coffee from the Jamaican Blue Mountain, which may be listed separately in our range.

The coffee grows in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, at more than 1500 metres above sea level. Around 75 percent of all the coffee there is grown by smallholder farmers.

The farmers pick the coffee beans in three to five rounds. The beans are then washed and dried in the sun. The green beans next go to IDorganics and are roasted at the SUN roastery with the slow roast process into this dark roast.

This is the dark roast version, and that roast makes it suitable for espresso, ristretto and cappuccino. The coffee has an exotic, fruity aroma and a complex, subtle flavour with a firm body.

You get whole beans in a 1 kilo pack, so you grind them in your bean to cup machine or with a separate grinder next to your espresso machine. If the cup tastes too bitter, grind a little coarser; if it tastes too sour, grind finer or dose slightly higher.

This coffee is Fairtrade certified and carries the European organic label with the code NL-BIO-01. Fairtrade stands for fair trading conditions and a minimum price for the farmers.

NL-BIO-01 is the code of the control body that verifies the organic certification. The addition non-EU agriculture indicates that the coffee was grown outside the European Union, in this case in Papua New Guinea.

Store the beans cool, dark and well sealed, for example in the original bag with the seal closed or in an airtight storage tin. Do not put coffee in the fridge, because there it takes on moisture and smells.

With a kilo bag we advise transferring a small amount at a time into a tin for daily use and keeping the rest closed. That way the aroma of the beans stays intact for longer.