Many friends will make a cup of Americano coffee when they get up in the morning! Not only because of the demand for the "effects" brought by Americano, but also because it is very simple to make. You only need to extract a portion of espresso, then add a certain amount of water and stir evenly. A cup of Americano coffee that can both refresh you and reduce swelling is complete!
The main role of water here is to dilute the concentrated concentration and make the coffee easier to drink. But "how much water should be used to make American coffee" has become a problem that troubles many friends. Because most of the time, major bloggers do not share specific parameters, but more of just a range. Therefore, many novice friends often ask Front Street this question: "How much water should be used to make the best American coffee?"
How much water should be used to make Americano coffee?
In fact, there is no fixed standard for the amount of water in Americano coffee, because the main impact of the amount of water on coffee is its concentration. Unlike Pour over(V60) coffee, Americano coffee is made by pouring water directly into the extracted espresso for dilution, so the amount of water does not affect the extraction rate of the coffee, only the concentration.
When more water is used, the concentration of coffee will be lower, and the taste and flavor will be softer; when less water is used, the concentration of coffee will be higher, and the taste and flavor will be more concentrated and rich.
Therefore, the amount of water in Americano will be affected by personal taste, and also depends on the coffee beans used. Because the flavor of a cup of Americano mainly comes from the beans used, and the degree of roasting of the beans will directly affect the intensity of the flavor.
For example, dark roasted beans will have caramel, chocolate, nuts and other flavors as the main flavors, and the extracted espresso will have a stronger flavor. If you like it, you can choose Front Street Classic Blend, Front Street Black Cocoa Basic Blend, Front Street Boutique Blend, or Front Street Commercial Blend;
The flavor of light roasted coffee beans is mainly floral and fruity. If you like it, you can buy Front Street Oiran SOE, Front Street Grana SOE, Front Street Strawberry Candy espresso Italian blend. The extracted espresso taste will not be as strong as that of dark roasted coffee, and the overall flavor will be more sour and fresh.
It can be seen that the tonality of the two is completely opposite. Therefore, we cannot apply the delicious proportion of a certain cup of American coffee to different coffee beans, otherwise the taste will easily be too light or too strong. So how can we find out the amount of water suitable for the current coffee beans to make the best American style?
Very simple! drink! As long as we taste the Americano coffee made in different proportions in turn, we can find out the parameters that best suit our taste and the current beans! But there is no need to make the scope too large. Front Street can still provide you with some reference.
Front Street’s daily products use the Front Street classic blend, which is a medium-dark roasted Italian bean. The extraction parameters are usually 20g of powder to extract 40ml of liquid weight, and the time is between 28 and 35 seconds. After several tests in Front Street, it was finally determined that the hot American style should be made using a ratio of 1:4.5, that is, 40ml of coffee plus 180ml of water.
The hot Americano made with this ratio can not only fully display the unique flavors of whiskey, vanilla, cream, butter cookies, etc., but also maintain a certain concentration, so the coffee will taste more mellow; while the iced Americano uses a ratio of 1:2:4, that is, 40ml of coffee will be added with 80g of ice cubes and 160ml of room temperature water. Similarly, the iced American style produced with this ratio can fully display the flavor without losing concentration, and has a good taste.
Then you can use the above ratio as a reference to narrow the scope of the evaluation. For example, if the coffee beans you use are single-origin beans or lightly roasted coffee beans, then when testing hot Americano, you can control the ratio within the range of 1:3.5~4.5, and if you use dark roasted beans, the ratio can be limited to the range of 4.5~5.5. The same goes for making ice-American style, but it also needs to be combined with the melting speed of the ice cubes.
And if there are not many people during the test, then we can reduce the cost during the test by splitting and concentrating like Piccolo. For example, split the extracted espresso into 2 to 3 parts on average, and then add different proportions of water in sequence. In this way, you can test multiple coffees at once, reducing material costs without causing extravagance and waste~
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
