Nowadays, with the popularity of Italian coffee, there are endless varieties of fancy coffee. Among them, latte and cappuccino in the Italian coffee menu on Front Street are deeply loved by everyone, but today Front Street would like to introduce to you a relatively rare Italian coffee - Piccolo coffee, also known as Piccolo latte.
Maybe you have rarely heard of this piccolo coffee. Piccolo latte, "piccolo" in Italian means small, and latte means latte (that is, milk). And because piccolo means "piccolo" in English, so the name of piccolo latte came. traditionalpiccolo coffeeIt is made by adding 15-20 ml of espresso to steamed milk. Nowadays, people are generally accustomed to pouring coffee into a 100 ml special glass for drinking. Piccolo coffee mainly highlights the flavor and smoother taste of coffee.
How to make a simple cup of piccolo coffee? Front Street will also give you a brief introduction. Piccolo latte is more like a smaller version of latte, with a smaller cup, smaller capacity, and less coffee and milk than common espresso. It is necessary to extract 15 to 20 grams of espresso coffee and match it with 4 times the milk.
Because FrontStreet Coffee does not produce piccolo latte, it does not have a special 100 ml glass. Today's demonstration will use a 150 ml cup to extract 30 grams of espresso and match it with 120 grams of milk. The ratio of coffee to milk is 1:4.
The classic blend of Front Street is the first choice for making piccolo latte. This is a tribute to the once popular "Mamba Coffee". It combines Indonesian Mandheling beans and Brazilian Italian beans. It has the wild aroma of Mandheling and the smooth taste of Brazilian beans. The taste plays a complementary and harmonious role. Front Street's classic Italian blend is based on the Mamba recipe and adds Robusta, which fully improves the oiliness of the coffee and makes the Italian coffee body stronger. It is suitable for home production and used for latte art.
If you want piccolo coffee with a special flavor, buy SOE coffee beans, medium-dark roasted South American coffee and coffee from Asian origins. We recommend Front Street Queen Manor-Brazil, Front Street Colombian Wash, and Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling.
The amount of coffee powder used to make espresso at Front Street is 18 grams, the extraction time is 27 seconds, and a total of 30 grams of coffee liquid is extracted.
The parameters of the Italian machine for making espresso are very important. You can adjust the parameters according to your own machine. So what does the Piccolo coffee taste like? Piccolo latte has a coffee-to-milk ratio of 1:4, so the taste of espresso will be very obvious when you drink it. It can also highlight the flavor of the wine-centered chocolate blended by Nuanyang. It will taste richer than coffee latte, but not as unacceptable as espresso. The milk foam is as smooth as a latte, not as thin as an Australian white coffee, nor as dense as a cappuccino. The whole cup of coffee will taste like a milkshake, with obvious creamy chocolate, richness, medium sweetness and moderate aftertaste.
A friend asked before what is the difference between Australian white coffee and piccolo coffee? Front Street will give you a brief introduction to Australian White Coffee. The first is Australian White Coffee. As you can know from the previous article, Australian White is a coffee that highlights the taste of coffee. Latte is a coffee drink with a lot of milk added, while cappuccino is a milk coffee with thicker milk foam. Australian white coffee is a coffee with a richer taste, less milk, and thinner milk foam. Australian white coffee is also made differently. When it comes to the choice of concentrated base, New Zealanders like to use Double Ristretto to make Australian white coffee, while Australian baristas like to use Single Espresso.
Front Street believes that Australian white coffee feels more like a cup of coffee with milk; latte feels like a cup of coffee-flavored milk; and cappuccino feels like a cup of milky coffee with dense milk foam. Australian white coffee can better demonstrate the quality of coffee beans than latte coffee and is more suitable for expressing the flavor of the coffee production area. It is also like the very popular SOE (single orgin espresso) single-origin espresso coffee, which caters to the characteristics of the third wave of coffee trends that focus on coffee production areas and trace their origins.
Front Street believes that the most important thing in making a cup of piccolo coffee is to choose a good espresso as the base, because a good espresso is very important to making a cup of espresso. Generally, Italian coffee beans are blended with several types of coffee beans, so Front Street believes that it is very important to choose the right blend of coffee beans.
The blended beans can be made up of different coffee beans to complement each other. If the coffee beans are blended well, the flavor of the blended beans will combine the advantages of the coffee beans to extract a very balanced taste and an unusually aromatic thick oil. However, if the blending is not done well, the characteristics of soybeans will be released, especially the lightly roasted beans, which will have a strong aroma and a stimulating sweet and sour taste. Front Street found that many coffee shops like to use Yirgacheffe to make coffee blends. The floral aroma extracted will be very obvious and the taste will be a bit sour, which is very suitable for lovers who like sour taste.
Maybe some customers don’t understand why the coffee beans are put together. Isn’t this a mess? In fact, in Front Street’s view, each bean has its own advantages and disadvantages. Maybe the coffee liquid extracted by the espresso machine from this bean does not have enough oil, so you can add coffee beans with rich oil to complement it: if the espresso extracted from this bean is too sour, too bitter, and too sweet, then you can find a complementary one to blend with each other to achieve the desired coffee flavor. Wouldn’t that be perfect? The perfect blend of beans makes it easier to make a perfect cup of piccolo coffee.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
