Talk:Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

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Wikification and other edits

I've wikified this page, cleaned up dead links, and removed a couple of things. I removed the line about having to travel perilous Jamaican cliff-side roads to have the coffee roasted over an open fire in a frying pan. Without getting into the merits of roasting in a frying pan, there's certainly no need to go to Jamaica for that.

I also removed the information about pricing. The price of JBM varies widely in the US and elsewhere. Low quality JBM can be had for as little as ~$25 (maybe even less if you're gullible). I'll add back in information about its relative expensiveness.

There's a fair amount of other information in this article that needs verification. I'm going to try to track this down soonish. ScottW 14:59, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wallenford Coffee Company and JBM region

Upon further review, the statement about Wallenford Coffee Company being the only outlet for buying JBM coffee is false. Also the definition of where JBM coffee can be grown is also not entirely accurate. Unfortunately, the Jamaican government site at which the various JBM regulations are posted is no longer available. I'll update this information if I can find a source. ScottW 15:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reorganized and added verifiable information

I've removed information that I found to be either false or unverifiable. I've replaced these statements with information from the Jamaican government and from the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe. Unfortunately, the Jamican government site is returning 404 errors, so I've linked to the site via archive.org. If the real site comes back up, it will be worth relinking to that. There is a fair amount of good information there. ScottW 16:52, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sources extlinks

Do we need them? Do we want them? Seems like "Yet Another Place Selling Blue Mountain Coffee" goes against WP:EL. DMacks 21:30, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We would only correctly need some external links to organizations such as the regulatory body (Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica) and perhaps a proper governmental home page for Jamaica's Blue Mountain region. Basically any organization that is properly mentioned in the article can have a link posted, provided it is does not constitute spam or ad link. No ad links to sites selling coffee should ever be permitted, unless one of the official sites described also happens to include a "buy" link. Of course informational source reference links are always permitted (or rather, required), again provided they qualify as a reliabe source and not a conflict of interest. --T-dot ( ^Talk/contribs ) 10:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree with T-dot that links to sites selling coffee should not be in the article unless the link meets the guideline of having a buy button from one of the official sites, one of the links in this article is clearly to a vendor Dave37dave37 (talk) 23:17, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just cleared out some cruft. Dave37dave37, is the jamaicabluemountaincoffee site the one you think is "clearly to a vendor"? DMacks (talk) 21:11, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A little help please

Question. "the "wet parchment" that results is dried, cured, raded and then sorted". Just what is "raded"? Is that a typo, or a process that needs to be linked to or explained? --T-dot ( ^Talk/contribs ) 10:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would guess it's a typo for 'graded', but how can you grade before you sort? Also, what does 'coffee is pulped' mean? We're talking about coffee beans here, right?81.157.63.47 (talk) 10:19, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kenya Blue Mountain Coffee

Take a look at http://www.northern-tea.com/buy-tea-coffee-online.asp?link=160 Perhaps there is a need to state that there are other growers who are rightly or wrongly using the "Blue Mountain" brand! Farawayman (talk) 17:33, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Peaberry beans are certainly not monocotyledon beans

I add this in the talk section since I am reticent to edit the article itself. A recent edit has mentioned peaberry beans which are rounder than usual beans. But it has nothing to do with the number of cotyledons, which is always two for coffee seeds. The peculiarity of a peaberry bean is that a single (dicotyledon) seed is fertilised and develops inside the fruit ("cherry"), instead of two seeds as is usual. So instead of flattening each other during their growth, leading to the usual aspect of a round 'back' and a flat 'face' where the small gap between the two cotyledons is quite visible, typical of a coffee bean, the unhindered growth lead to a round "face" roughly similar in general shape with the back, but with the small gap between the two cotyledons still quite visible, as can be seen on the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaberry If anyone sees this talk and edits the Jamaica Blue Mountain page, pleas also edit the Peaberry page: this is absolutely not a "mutation" as mentioned there : it is an accident of fertilisation that just misses one of the two seeds, but it does not affect the genetics of the seed that is fertilised, nad thus "mutation" is totally inaccurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Voralfred (talk • contribs) 09:28, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: CMN2160A

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 8 September 2022 and 15 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Jlearner022 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Kclar078.

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