Friends who often drink coffee should know that espresso has a very strong taste and strong taste, and it will be even more difficult to accept if it is cooled. But if you add ice cubes, the temperature of the concentrate can drop rapidly, or add ice water to instantly highlight the refreshing taste, and the bitter taste becomes less heavy. Tasting it in summer can quench thirst and relieve the heat. This is the charm of iced American style.
Iced Americano to Water Ratio
Iced Americano is undoubtedly the simplest popular item in cafes. It only requires a combination of espresso, ice cubes, and water. It is also usually the lowest-priced drink on the menu, usually between 18 and 25 yuan. At this time, some friends may be curious, what is the proportion of each component? There is no specific standard for the proportion of iced Americano, which means that each coffee shop may make different Americano, and everyone will determine it based on the taste characteristics of the coffee beans used and the cup size.
For example, the Americano coffee produced at the Front Street store is made from Sunflower Warm Sun blended coffee beans roasted by Front Street itself. The ideal extraction should have the flavor of wine, vanilla, cream, chocolate, and berry. In order to highlight these aromas, Front Street made many comparisons and finally determined the ratio of 1:4.5. When making, use 20 grams of coffee powder to extract 40g of espresso, pour it into a preheated cup, add 180g of hot water, and control the temperature at 80 to 85 degrees Celsius.
When making iced Americano, Front Street will take into account the conditions of icing and ice fusion. The stronger the ice cubes, the slower they will melt when soaked in water. Therefore, the ice cubes used in Front Street stores are frozen in advance and frozen in the refrigerator after being taken out. Such "old ice" melts more slowly and will not melt quickly even in summer. Diluting the concentration will make the coffee taste too weak. Front Street here will choose larger ice cubes, one ice cube weighs about 25g. The hot water part in the hot American is replaced by 100g large ice cubes and 120g of room temperature water, that is, 1:2.5:3. This ice American has a moderate concentration, sweet and sour, and refreshing.
Besides iced Americano, what other iced coffees can be made with espresso and ice?
Among the customers who come to Front Street to drink coffee, a few friends will order from the barista at Front Street Coffee, "Boss, please give me an iced Americano without water, thank you!" The method is also very simple, that is, the iced Americano only contains ice cubes. However, what Front Street recommends is to pour the espresso liquid into ice cubes, or extract espresso directly on a cup filled with ice cubes.
In this way, the espresso will be quickly cooled down by the ice cubes, resulting in a better flavor. Therefore, the iced Americano without the water, that is, the iced espresso, still tastes quite rich. The coffee beans used in Front Street are Sunflower Warm Sun blended coffee beans, and the hot espresso and iced espresso are made for comparison. Compared with the hot espresso, it seems less bitter, with a little more sour and sweet feeling, and the whole cup has a bright and rising feeling.
In addition, "Swiss Sand Ice American Style" and "Waterfall Ice American Style" have become popular on various platforms in recent years. "Quicksand" refers to the fact that the oil of espresso coffee is turned into a fine golden foam layer when steamed. It is poured into a cup and left to wait for the coffee to separate, forming a visual effect of falling layers like fine sand.
Because the strong espresso coffee is whipped with ice cubes, the bitterness of the coffee liquid is reduced, and instead highlights the light vanilla flavor and refreshing berry sweetness and sourness. In addition, the foam layer is delicate and smooth, giving it a taste like dark beer. Pour the coffee liquid into the "ice cup" that has been frozen in advance, then let it float smoothly on the water, and wait for the espresso liquid to "jump" out from the inside. This is the ever-popular waterfall iced Americano, which uses solid ice cubes to melt into liquid to create a dynamic visual effect.
Is Bing American bitter?
Front Street believes that a good cup of iced Americano is the key to a high-quality espresso base, so choosing the right coffee beans is very important. Since espresso is a pressurized extraction, small adjustments in parameters will also affect the taste of the final espresso, so Front Street recommends using medium-dark roasted coffee beans.
Italian blended coffee beans are cooked beans made by roasters who carefully select coffee beans from different origins and different flavor tones and roast them together (or roast them separately and then blend them in proportion). The purpose is to highlight the mellow aroma of Espresso, maintain a balanced flavor, and at the same time make the taste of the Italian coffee produced in the store more stable. Front Street's understanding of blended beans is to maintain a stable flavor and balanced taste, so that the blended coffee can present the effect of one plus one greater than two, and the taste can complement each other's strengths, thereby creating a richer new taste of coffee.
Compared with the classic bitter American coffee in many stores, the Italian coffee produced in the Front Street store uses self-roasted "Sunflower Warm Blend Coffee Beans", which is a blend of Honduran sherry coffee beans + sun-dried Yirgacheffe red cherry coffee beans. The ideally extracted espresso should have whiskey aroma, vanilla, cream, and berry acidity, rich aroma, soft taste, very easy to drink, and easy to accept even for friends who don’t drink coffee much. Of course, in addition to the Nuanyang blend, Front Street also has three Italian blends of coffee beans with mellow flavor and balanced taste, which are also very suitable for making American coffee.
1. FrontStreet Coffee-FrontStreet premium blend of 100% Arabica coffee beans:
Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-sun-dried coffee beans (70%)
Adding Colombian coffee to the nutty tone of classic Brazilian coffee, the espresso presents a dark chocolate flavor, caramel sweetness, and a full roasting aroma.
2. FrontStreet Coffee-FrontStreet commercial blended coffee beans:
Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-dried coffee (60%)
The espresso produced has rich golden oil and nutty aroma. When you taste it, there will be a burnt coffee bitterness, but it will be accompanied by a more creamy and full taste. After swallowing, the bitterness will also dissipate, leaving a fragrant aroma on your lips and teeth.
3. FrontStreet Coffee-FrontStreet black cocoa blend (100% Arabica) coffee beans:
Yunnan washed arabica coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-sun-dried coffee beans (70%)
Yunnan arabica coffee has a soft acidity paired with the mellow aroma of Brazilian Cerado coffee. The espresso coffee has a taste of caramel, nuts, and soft plum sourness.
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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
