Cafe Blue

Overview

Cafe Blue is a vertically integrated Jamaica Blue Mountain producer-roaster that planted its first coffee in the Blue Mountains in 1985 and opened its first coffee shop two decades later in 2005. The company manages the entire chain itself — picking cherries on its Blue Mountain farms, pulping at its on-mountain factory, and roasting at its processing facility in downtown Kingston — operating as one of roughly ten roasters licensed by Jamaica's Coffee Industry Board to use the Jamaica Blue Mountain mark.

Known for

• First coffee plants 1985 in Jamaica's Blue Mountains; first cafe opened 2005
• Fully vertically integrated — own farm, own pulping factory in the Blue Mountains, own roastery in downtown Kingston
• Licensed user of the Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee certification mark
• Tasting profile leans on the classic JBM signature — mild, sweet, chocolate and citrus notes
• One of the few Jamaican brands operating publicly facing retail beyond export

Why it matters

Jamaica Blue Mountain is one of the most internationally recognized origin marks in coffee, but for decades roughly 80% of each crop was shipped to Japan and almost none of the brand was held by Jamaican-controlled, retail-facing operations. Cafe Blue is one of the few licensed Jamaican producer-roasters that runs its own farm, factory, roastery and storefront, anchoring a domestic coffee retail experience around an origin most consumers can only encounter via export.

Production

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roastery location

Downtown Kingston, Jamaica

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Café

This roaster operates a café.

Sources

• https://cafeblue.com/about-us/
• https://countrytraders.com/
• https://bluemountaincoffee.com/our-story/
• https://jbmcusa.com/pages/about-us