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AmericanoIt is the most popular one in the coffee shop besides milk coffee. If the majority of lovers of milk coffee are women, thenAmericanoIt can be regarded as a very unisex coffee, and its popularity is basically the same between male and female customers.
What is Americano?
Americano coffee, simply put, is coffee suitable for American tastes. When Americans first came into contact with espresso in Italy, they had difficulty adapting to the strong taste of espresso. American consumers were accustomed to drip coffee. In order to obtain a concentration similar to drip coffee, espresso was diluted to a certain extent. To put it simply, it is espresso diluted with water.
whyAmericanoSo popular?
FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) learned from chatting with customers based on their daily products that everyone loves them so muchAmericano, one is because it is cheap, affordable and cost-effective; the other is that Americano coffee can be diluted according to different people's different concentration preferences; the other is that Americano coffee is simple enough, so you don't have to worry about choosing.
Compared with latte and cappuccino that require adding milk, Americano coffee without milk is naturally cheaper than milk coffee. At the same time, coffee shops usually use espresso with high cost performance and relatively low cost to match coffee beans when producing Americano coffee.
In order to quickly extract the taste of coffee in a high-temperature pressurized environment, obtain a rich and mellow taste, and at the same time give the overall feeling of balance, coffee roasters can be said to have exhausted their lifelong learning. They not only need to have an in-depth understanding of coffee beans, but also have strict quality control and knowledge and understanding of coffee roasting.
In order to cater to the taste preferences of mass consumers, FrontStreet Coffee currently sells 4 Italian blended coffee beans with different flavors and prices. All coffee beans shipped are sent out within 5 days after roasting, and 100% of the coffee beans are freshly roasted.
"Nuanyang Blend Coffee Beans" 79/227g: Ethiopian sun-dried red cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduran sherry barrel coffee beans (70%), with a rich aroma of wine, vanilla cream, sweet and sour berries, and the flavor of roasted nuts.
"Front Street Premium Blend 100% Arabica Coffee Beans" 75/454g: Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-dried coffee beans (70%), with flavors of nuts, dark chocolate, and caramel.
"Front Street Commercial Blend Coffee Beans" 60/454g: Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-dried coffee (60%), with flavors of nuts, cocoa, and caramel.
"Front Street Black Cocoa Blend (100% Arabica) Coffee Beans" 50/454g: Yunnan washed arabica coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-sun-dried coffee beans (70%), with soft fruity acid, caramel, and nutty flavors.
How to make Americano at home?
The production of Americano coffee usually requires the use of a dedicated espresso machine. To use an espresso machine to extract espresso, you need to grind the coffee powder to a very fine degree, then put it into the recommended capacity of the grinding bowl in the coffee handle, and then extract a coffee liquid that is twice the amount of coffee powder at a ratio of 1:1, and then add water to dilute it according to your taste preference.
When producing Americano coffee, Front Street will grind the coffee beans into powder, extract espresso coffee according to a powder-to-liquid ratio of 1:2, and pour it into water for dilution. That is, 20 grams of coffee powder will be used to extract 40 grams of coffee liquid.
According to Front Street's many experiments, the ratio of coffee liquid to water of 1:6 is most suitable to express the aroma of Front Street Nuanyang blend. That is, 40 grams of coffee liquid is poured into 240 grams of 88°C hot water, and the hot Americano is completed. If iced Americano is produced, the hot water will be replaced with 120 grams of ice cubes and 120 grams of room temperature water. The taste will be best before the ice cubes melt.
If you don’t have an espresso machine, you can use ready-to-drink espresso/freeze-dried coffee and then add an appropriate amount of water.
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
