Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee: Why Is It So Special? If you love coffee, chances are you've heard of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. It has a reputation for being one of the world's most sought-after coffees — but what actually makes Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee different from the thousands of other coffees available today? The answer isn't simply branding. It's the combination of Jamaica's mountains, climate, soil, limited growing region, coffee-growing traditions and strict quality standards that give authentic Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee its distinctive reputation. At Scotty D's Jamaican Coffee, we've spent years sharing that story with coffee drinkers around the world. Our company was founded in 2014 with a simple goal: bring the unique character of Jamaican coffee to...
Coffee consumption around the world is estimated at about 173 million 60kg bags a year, or roughly two billion cups a day.
The International Coffee Organization forecasts that in 2023-2024, consumption will rise to 177 million bags.
Enjoy your morning coffee while you can. As a new report by Lina Zeldovich of Quartz notes, your caffeine supply faces “an existential threat” from fungi, beetles and climate change. It’s a rather eye-opening examination of the problems faced by the coffee industry, where half the land needed for production could disappear by 2050. But the biggest problem might be diversity (or lack thereof) in the beans themselves. Most of the beans we like are produced by just one plant species, known as Coffee arabica. First discovered in Ethopia, C. arabica can be grown pretty much anywhere, but its uniformity means it may have lost important disease-resistant traits. So scientists are actually hunting down wild coffee species (there are up to 125 non-domesticated species) and sequencing the...
Coffee is certainly the first drink of choice for a majority of people around the world. Being an epitome of caffeine source, most working people resort to a cup of coffee when it comes to plodding through tiresome projects late at night. Even the youth is not behind! And why not? Caffeine is a stimulant that, when consumed in adequate amounts, is known to give a boost to focus and alertness. But coffee itself comes in various varieties, each with its unique taste as well as a different price depending upon its quality. One of the most sought-after is the Blue Mountain Coffee or Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. What is the Blue Mountain Coffee? Simply stated, Blue Mountain Coffee is...
There are many questions than answers these days about the pros and cons of the caffeine that is found in many drinks, especially in coffee. Coffee has been around for hundreds of years and was first developed as a common, cultural beverage in the Middle East. Over time, coffee grown into an international preferred hot drink used to complement other foods. However, Caffeine, which is one of the major ingredients of coffee, has attracted so many debates among the people. What is caffeine exactly? Caffeine is found in different plants and majorly works as a pesticide. Precisely, it is a naturally-occurring pesticide that kills the insects that try to feed on those plants. Caffeine is generally toxic to most insects....
