Americano is a well-known world-class coffee drink. Its composition is also very simple, just espresso mixed with an appropriate amount of water.
In Australia, there is also a local specialty coffee called "Long Black" (translated as long black), which is also composed of espresso and water. After the Australian version of latte flat white became popular in my country, some cafes directly introduced Australian Italian coffee products as a whole and integrated them into the existing Italian coffee menu. So for a period of time, we could see the coexistence of Americano coffee and Long Black coffee.
Although American coffee and long black coffee are both composed of water and espresso, they are Australian people full of personality after all, so there must be a difference between the two. So Front Street learned about a saying widely circulated on the Internet. The difference between the two is the order of making. Americano is to put espresso first and then pour water to dilute it; while long black coffee is to add water to the cup first and then pour espresso.
That sounds perfectly reasonable, but it's not the difference between an Americano and a Long Black. Because the Americano coffee making method does not indicate whether to pour water first and then coffee, or pour coffee first and then water. Therefore, any method of Americano coffee is fine. But long black coffee is particular about the order of water and coffee. The cup is filled with water first, and then the espresso is extracted into the water. Front Street probably wanted to find out the difference, so the rumor that there was a difference due to the order of pouring spread.
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
