Americano is a coffee sold in all cafes and a must-order coffee for coffee fans. Because Americano is quick to make, has a good flavor and tastes good, office workers who are in a hurry for work often order a cup of Americano when they go to a cafe to save time and refresh themselves at work. In this hot summer in Guangzhou, friends who come to the FrontStreet Coffee store and don’t know what to drink but don’t want to drink milk will basically order a glass of iced Americano. But, do you know where American coffee comes from?
Americano Coffee History
One theory is that American coffee is said to have originated from American soldiers in Italy during World War II. They were not used to the strong espresso, so they added boiling water to dilute it. This aroused disdain in Italy, calling it Americano, Yankee coffee.
Of course, there is another theory. After Schultz introduced espresso to Starbucks in Seattle, he diluted it with hot water in order to adapt to Americans with light tastes. Becoming accepted as Starbucks spreads around the world.
Americano is a type of Italian coffee. It usually uses a blend of medium-dark roasted to dark-roasted coffee beans. The pressure of an espresso machine is used to allow hot water to pass through the ground coffee powder to extract espresso. Under normal circumstances, a cup of Americano is made by diluting one or two shots of espresso with hot water.
Drink Americano coffeeWhat are the benefits?
1. Coffee contains certain nutrients. The niacin in coffee contains vitamin B, and the content is higher in roasted coffee beans. And there are free fatty acids, caffeine, tannins, etc.
2. Coffee is good for the skin. Coffee can promote metabolic function, activate digestive organs, and is very effective in treating constipation. Taking a bath with coffee powder is a kind of warm therapy and has the effect of losing weight.
3. Coffee has the function of relieving hangover. Drinking coffee after drinking alcohol will rapidly oxidize acetaldehyde converted from alcohol, decompose it into water and carbon dioxide and be excreted from the body.
4. Coffee can eliminate fatigue. To eliminate fatigue, it is necessary to supplement nutrition, rest and sleep, and promote metabolic function, and coffee has these functions.
5. Coffee can help with weight loss. Coffee contains magnesium and potassium, which help the body use insulin, regulate blood sugar levels, and reduce cravings for sweets and snacks. Caffeine helps fat cells break down body fat and use it as fuel for exercise.
Why is drinking Americano coffee healthier?
Americano coffee not only promotes digestion, has a diuretic function and speeds up metabolism in the body, it can also reduce oral odor. After a meal, sit down and chat with friends and have a cup of Americano, making each other more relaxed and harmonious.
Americano is the coffee with the lowest calories, bar none, it can even be said to be negligible. Even a large cup of Americano coffee in Starbucks has very low calories. This is why many celebrities and entertainers love to drink Americano coffee. It can not only satisfy their appetite, but also don’t have to worry about too many calories.
How to make a cup of Americano coffee?
Having said so many benefits of Americano coffee, do you know how Americano coffee is made? Simply put, it’s espresso and water. Next, let Front Street tell you how to make American coffee in Front Street.
The parameters for making espresso at FrontStreet Coffee are: 20 grams of coffee powder to extract 35 grams of coffee liquid, which takes 28 to 29 seconds.
The espresso beans used by FrontStreet Coffee are their own sunflower blend, which contains 70% Honduran sherry and 30% Yirgacheffe sun-dried red cherries. Among them, 70% Honduran sherry provides this coffee with whiskey aroma and vanilla cream notes, while 30% Yirgacheffe sun-dried red cherries provide berry-like sourness. Front Street’s design concept for this blended bean is that it can be used in both Italian style and manual brewing. The flavor it exudes when used to make espresso has an obvious aroma of fermented wine. When you taste it, the acidity of citrus and berries emerges immediately, with the aroma of whiskey, and the aftertaste is dark chocolate.
FrontStreet Coffee Sunflower Warm Yang Mixed Blend
Origin: Ethiopia & Honduras
Varieties: Kaduura, Kaduai, native species
Processing method: sun drying & barrel fermentation
Once the espresso is extracted, the rest is even easier. That is to say, the extracted espresso is introduced into water to complete a cup of American coffee.
Does Americano taste bad?
When this issue is mentioned, in most cases it is because friends are worried about the bitter taste. As for Americano coffee being bitter, there are no more than the following two reasons: ① the taste of the coffee beans themselves; ② over-extraction.
[The taste of the coffee beans themselves]
Americano coffee is coffee except for water. The taste of the coffee beans itself can most affect the taste of a whole cup of Americano coffee. So the first reason why American coffee is bitter may be that the coffee beans used to make espresso have a rich and thick taste.
The rich flavor of espresso beans comes from their rich regional flavor and deeper roasting degree. For example, FrontStreet Coffee's espresso blend of 100% Arabica coffee beans, which contains 30% Colombian coffee beans and 70% Brazilian coffee beans, is used for espresso. Colombian coffee beans give this blend a dark chocolate base, while Brazilian coffee beans provide a nutty tone and higher body. The roasters at FrontStreet Coffee roast this blend to a medium-dark roast, giving it a wonderful balance of medium-low acidity and medium bitterness.
【Over-extraction】
In addition to bean selection, the bitterness of American coffee also comes from errors during extraction, such as uneven extraction caused by channeling effect, or over-extraction caused by grinding too finely.
Front Street Coffee Coffee) often shares that based on the weight of the coffee beans, only about 30% of the coffee beans can be extracted, and this 30% does not mean that the more extracted the better, based on the recommended range of the Gold Cup Criteria, the extraction is about 18% to 22% It is most suitable. If it is less than 18%, we call it under-extraction. Under-extraction is manifested in the sour taste of the coffee, and the taste is bland. If the extraction exceeds 22%, we call it over-extraction, which is what we often call over-extraction. Over-extraction is usually characterized by strong bitterness.
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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
