Relationship between planting environmental conditions and grade names

Finally, we need to understand the relationship between planting altitude and coffee grade. Arabica coffee beans grown at higher altitudes will ripen more slowly than those grown at lower altitudes, resulting in higher density, acidity and complexity in the cup. However, in most of the cognitive rules of the coffee industry, the factor of growth altitude is not necessarily the absolute standard of classification (of course, growth altitude is only one of the many factors that affect the performance of coffee cups). In Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and other places, the classification names related to the altitude of growth are different, some are called "High Grown", some are called "high altitude" (Altura, only in Mexico). And the "extremely hard beans" (Strictly Hard Bean, the highest in this category) used in most Guatemalan and Costa Rican coffee, because the higher the altitude, the denser or harder the coffee beans will be.