"Young man! Have a glass of iced Americano, no water."
This is an order request received by the barista at FrontStreet Coffee. Although Front Street has many hidden menus (such as Flat White, Dirty), I was still a little stunned when I heard this request from the customer. Customers occasionally ask for the iced American style, but the iced American style with water is relatively rare. After removing the water from the iced Americano, isn’t it just a glass of espresso with ice?
Water + espresso liquid = Americano, everyone should know this formula
, heating water is a hot American, adding ice water is an iced American. Many friends cannot tolerate coffee that is too strong, but they want to "relieve inflammation and relieve heat" while consuming caffeine. Ice American is a very good choice.
All iced American style! !
What about the "Ice Americano, no water" that the customer ordered at the beginning? In fact, it is "all-ice American". When we take it apart and say: all-ice, American, it is easy to understand: an American with only ice cubes, completely replacing the water part of the American with ice cubes. There are actually many names for this drinking method, such as pure ice American, ice concentrate, concentrate with ice...
When Front Street makes this de-iced Americano, they adjust the amount of ice to 60g, that is, 38g of coffee liquid + 60g of old ice, and change the cup to a smaller cold brew cup, extracting espresso directly on the cup filled with ice cubes. In this way, the extracted concentration will be immediately cooled by ice cubes, locking in more aromatic substances, and the resulting flavor will be better.
What are the benefits of iced American style made like this? How does it taste different?
Friends who have paid attention to barista competitions may know that in the 2021 WBC (World Barista Competition), Hugh Kelly, a barista from Australia, proposed a concept called Extract chilling during the competition. This is how he extracted espresso in the competition. He placed a frozen metal block between the espresso cup and the split port of the coffee handle. When the espresso liquid flows out of the split port, it will pass through the metal block to cool down before reaching the espresso cup.
Hugh said this, "The first 12 grams of coffee liquid contains the most volatile compounds (aroma). By cooling the coffee liquid quickly, the coffee retains more flavor and aroma."
The taste of the American coffee made in this way is actually closer to drinking espresso directly. However, after the rapid cooling of the ice cubes (locking in the flavor) and a small amount of dilution, the coffee becomes more drinkable, and there is no need to worry about the loss of part of the flavor and aroma of the coffee liquid during the cooling process. It still tastes quite rich.
Front Street used sunflower warm sun blended coffee beans to make a normal iced American and a full iced American for comparison. Compared to the iced American with a large amount of ice water mixed with ice water, the full iced American has a higher concentration and is relatively more bitter. Overall, you can feel more changes in the sour flavor levels. If you are also interested in all-ice American style, you might as well try it next time you order American style~
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
