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Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Production

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Jamaican Blue Mountian Coffee

This is all about Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. We take you step by step on a tour through the Mavis Bank Coffee factory nestled in the wonderful Jamaican Blue Mountains. Watch as coffee goes from the Cherry Berry pictured here all the way through to the final hand sorting process.

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Floating the Coffee Berry

Floating Coffee Berrys

Here you can see that they float coffee berries. This removes berries that do not have a solid bean inside. Berry's float when a bean is not of such a size to cause them to sink.
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Pulping the Berry

Berry Pulping

Here is where they take the coffee berry and remove the berry leaving the bean. Shown here done by hand normally this is done with large machines.
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Fermenting The Bean

Fermenting the Bean

After the coffee bean is removed from the fruit it needs to ferment so that the excess sugars from the bean are removed. At times the beans are placed in the sun on the "BBQ" to dry and control the fermentation process.
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Drying the Bean

Dry the Bean

the next step is to dry the coffee bean. Once the coffee has gone through it's fermentation process it is then ready for drying. In the drying process the coffee bean is brought to just the right amount of moisture.
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Soarting the Beans

Sortfing Coffee

Your finest of coffees go through several sorting processes to remove the bad coffee beans. Here you see as the coffee in Jamaica goes through several sorting processes before it is deemed ready for bagging.
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And that is how coffee is made

Green Coffee BeansYou can see that just the processing of the coffee to a point of it being a green bean ready for roasting is a lengthy process and labor intensive.