What's the difference between high altitude and low altitude coffee beans?

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Secondly, how do we know if the coffee we buy is really high altitude? Coffee growth and reproduction has specific requirements for environmental conditions, sexual preference for calm wind, cool, shaded or semi-shaded environment. In other words, coffee can not be grown and produced in any environment. In other words, coffee production is regional. Most of the coffee producing areas in the world are distributed in tropical plateaus or high-altitude mountain areas. The heat in the equatorial area is high and can be planted to about 2000 meters above sea level; the heat on both sides of the Tropic of Cancer is relatively low, mostly below 1000 meters. In China, it is mainly distributed in Yunnan, bounded by Ailao Mountain, and mainly planted below 900m in the east; in the west, it is mainly planted below 1200 m above sea level, and a few can be planted up to 1500 m above sea level; in the hot area of the Jinsha River basin, it can be planted to 144m 1670m. Therefore, if you buy high-altitude coffee, you should ask the origin. If a seller tells you that the producing area is east of Ailao Mountain in Yunnan, and the elevation is 1200 meters above sea level, it is absolutely deceiving you, because coffee cannot be grown at this altitude at all.

Thirdly, the altitude of Yunnan coffee should be specially explained that because the topography of Yunnan hot areas is complex, the mountains and valleys are deep, the elevation drop is large, and the three-dimensional climate is obvious, coupled with the fact that the land of farmers in Yunnan is relatively scattered and the elevation difference is relatively large, so the classification according to the altitude of coffee is very complex and tedious, and few coffee producers do so. Even if there is, it is an extravagant range rather than an absolute value.

Recently, high-altitude coffee is very popular, and many merchants are keen to advertise their coffee as XXXX rice high-altitude coffee, as if only in this way can they reflect their coffee quality. The buyer was in a fog and didn't know what to do. First of all, we have to ask ourselves, is high-altitude coffee really high-quality coffee? Is it really suitable for you? Is it true that the coffee we bought is XXXX meters above sea level?

Today, Ailu Coffee and friends communicate and learn. First of all, we need to know what effect altitude has on coffee quality. In fact, altitude has no direct effect on coffee. However, altitude can have an impact on the growth, development and quality of coffee through the redistribution of meteorological elements (temperature, light, heat, wind speed, rainfall, etc.). Practice shows that the effect of altitude on quality has exceeded that of genotype on quality. According to the measurement, the higher the altitude, the greater the acidity, the smaller the concentration; on the contrary, the smaller the acidity, the greater the concentration. Therefore, for friends who like sour taste and do not require high concentration, high-altitude coffee is very suitable for you, it is your good coffee; for friends who do not like sour taste and require high concentration of coffee, the higher the altitude, the more unsuitable for them. No matter how high its quality is, it is also a waste product for itself. Therefore, the choice of altitude should be based on personal taste.