Does altitude determine coffee quality? What kind of coffee is best?

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"altitude determines the quality of coffee" is the most common perception of many producers and consumers.

This definition may be right or wrong. Today we will bring you a new understanding of the intimate relationship between coffee and altitude, as well as fine coffee and good coffee.

"Middle and low altitude producing areas can also produce good coffee and boutique coffee," and "high altitude producing areas can also produce bad coffee and inferior coffee."

The relationship between altitude and coffee quality:

Today, when you buy a cup of coffee, you know from the packaging or from your boss that it is coffee from a high-altitude producing area. Don't rush to think he's a good coffee or a boutique coffee.

When you hear that she is a coffee from a high-altitude producing area, you need the following knowledge in mind:

Altitude affects yield and fruit ripening period:

There is no denying that the higher the altitude of the coffee producing area, the lower the yield.

The fruit ripening period is also slow. In terms of coffee quality alone, the reduction in yield helps to improve the quality of each coffee bean, and the longer the fruit ripens, the slower the fruit ripening period, which means that each coffee bean has enough "time" to absorb enough nutrients. In terms of these two points, reduced yield and slow ripening period will help to improve the quality of coffee.

So high-altitude coffee is good coffee? Boutique coffee?

The answer is: not necessarily!

To become good coffee and fine coffee, in addition to the "innate conditions" of coffee beans, they also play a very important role in "post-processing".

However, the post-processing of coffee is another knowledge. from harvest to baking, packaging and sale, there can be no mistake in every link, as long as one of them goes wrong, then the whole batch of beans can only become "fertilizer."

Next, let's talk about good coffee and fine coffee.

Good coffee is relatively simple. The author believes that "as long as you let yourself or" him "like and fall in love", then she is a good cup of coffee, which should not be controversial.

As for boutique coffee, there is more room for controversy. What is fine coffee?.

Some people say that high-altitude coffee is fine coffee? but middle and low elevations can also produce good coffee.

Some people say that zero defect is fine coffee? what about sun-dried beans in Yemen, KONA, Hawaii, Africa and other places?

And now there is still room for objection to the identification of defective beans in our country.

There are many kinds of theories, but they don't have much in common, so the author thinks about it and thinks about the definition of boutique coffee.

In the end, there was an answer.

Of course, the quality of coffee beans should not be poor, and there should not be many defective beans, but the author believes that the most important element lies in whether the producers pay attention to the whole process of making coffee beans. Whether or not the coffee is produced is coffee of a "meaningful" nature.