Why Drink Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee?
The history of coffee growing in Jamaica is long and varied. It has grown from a slave based industry to a series of plantation growing and roasting companies that is the basis of the industry as we know it today. Coffee growing in Jamaica was introduced by the British. In 1730,the then governor of Jamaica Sir Nicholas Lawes imported Arabica seedlings from the island of Martinique. These were cultivated initially in the foothills of the Blue Mountain Range around St Andrew. This gradually expanded into the Blue Mountains themselves up until 1768. Over the subsequent decades and indeed centuries efforts...