Thursday Food starts the festive countdown with... Coffee reative

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is renowned globally as the premium table talk coffee, while the Starfish Oils Blue Mountain Coffee Candle has become the ultimate nostalgic gift for Jamaicans scattered across the diaspora. The jury is still out, however, on the potential of the five-month-old Platinum Blue Coffee Syrup created by Anntonette Abrahams. Infused with authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, the coffee syrup is, according to Abrahams, “versatile and may be used as a glaze for turkey, chicken, ham, seafood, or as a topping for pancakes, ice cream, muffins as well as a dressing for raw vegetable salads”.

The coffee syrup is distributed by Abrahams' two-year-old company Bloxburgh Gourmet Creations Jamaica Limited, which “quickly grew into a resource for a modest amount of Blue Mountain coffee beans, through developing a small farm cradled in the Blue Mountain Range,” Abrahams told Thursday Food. In 2010, the company, with the assistance of the local Scientific Research Council (SRC), established the creation of Bloxburgh Gourmet Creations’ Blue Mountain-infused coffee pancake syrup. Realising the potential for consumer use went beyond pancakes, the company reintroduced the product as a multipurpose and versatile coffee syrup, and branded it Platinum Blue.

The Platinum Blue Coffee Syrup is found on the shelves of Gem Palace, General Foods and Island Coffees in Ocho Rios; Caribbean Café, Negril; the Coffee & Spice Shop, Rose Hall; and Flame Distributing Ltd, Canada. The coffee syrup is currently the only product being distributed by Bloxburgh Gourmet Creations Jamaica Limited. A package of 12 coffee syrup bottles retails for $3,525.00.