Americano has become the drink of choice for many young people. A cup of Americano after a meal can not only relieve greasiness and promote digestion, but can also effectively break down fat. With appropriate exercise, it can have a slimming effect. Therefore, Americano has also become the coffee drink of choice for many celebrities. FrontStreet Coffee also sells Americano coffee, and many regular customers like to order a cup of Americano coffee at FrontStreet Coffee after dinner to chat about home life.
So what is an Americano? The method of making Americano is very simple. Just add water directly to the extracted espresso, that is, the diluted espresso is Americano. The taste of Americano coffee without sugar is rather bitter, which may not be suitable for people who often drink milk coffee at first. They are used to adding sugar packets to it. Front Street believes that whether or not to add sugar to Americano coffee depends on your taste. Pure Americano coffee has its own American taste, but if you don’t like bitter-flavored coffee, it’s okay to add sugar.
The taste of Americano coffee is slightly bitter. On the one hand, it comes from the fact that the roasting degree of Americano coffee beans is generally deeper than that of Pour over(V60) coffee beans.
What beans do Front Street Americano use?
Generally, the coffee beans used in coffee shops to make Americano are blended beans or dark roasted beans. For flavor, it is recommended to choose coffee beans with nut, cocoa, caramel, chocolate and other flavors. The beans used to make Americano at FrontStreet Coffee are the beans that FrontStreet blends themselves, and FrontStreet names them Sunflower Warm Sun Blend beans. This blend uses Honduras sherry and Ethiopian red cherry coffee. Through constant blending by FrontStreet Coffee baristas, a perfect blending ratio of 6:4 was achieved. The espresso produced has obvious acidity, berry flavor and wine aroma, with a pleasant aftertaste.
The reason why we choose blended beans for making American coffee is that we can use the characteristics of each bean to blend a flavor that we like. Sometimes Robusta coffee beans are added to the blended coffee beans to increase the oiliness of the extracted American coffee. On the one hand, adding Robusta coffee beans can reduce the cost compared with the price of specialty coffee.
The Sunflower Warm Sun coffee beans we just talked about on the front street are added with Honduran sherry coffee beans. The sherry coffee beans are delicately washed and fermented in whiskey sherry barrels, which adds the charm of American coffee. Of course, if you don’t like the special processing method of Honduras, you can also consider other types of beans. For example, Front Street’s Front Street Black Cocoa Blend (100% Arabica) coffee is blended using Yunnan coffee and Brazilian coffee in a ratio of 3:7. This Italian coffee blend has soft fruit acidity and caramel sweetness. There is also a Front Street boutique blend of 100% Arabica beans, which uses Colombian coffee beans and Brazilian coffee beans in a ratio of 3:7. The unique nutty and chocolate flavors of Colombian coffee are blended with the rich peanut and cream coffee flavors of Brazil. This Italian coffee blend has a very smooth overall feel, rich oil, and an extremely smooth mouthfeel, with a refreshing fragrance but a slight bitter taste unique to America.
Front Street American Coffee Recipe
AmericanoThe most important thing is to extract espresso coffee. The parameters used by each espresso machine are different. FrontStreet Coffee currently uses the Lelit V3 espresso machine. The extraction parameters used are those adjusted after multiple extractions by FrontStreet Coffee.
Pressure: 9 bar
Temperature: 90.5~96 degrees Celsius
Time: 20~30 sec
Pink to water ratio: 1:1.7~1:2
Powder amount: 12g (single espresso) 20g (double espresso)
Extraction concentration volume: 20ml (single portion) 40ml (double portion)
At the same time, the above parameters are also applicable to making milk coffee, such as latte, cappuccino, etc.
Hot Americano
Front Street uses double extraction for making American coffee, which is 40 ml of espresso. You can just add appropriate hot water according to the concentration you want. Of course, the best temperature of the hot water is about 85 degrees Celsius, and it is best not to add too much hot water, otherwise the result will beAmericanoThe taste will be very light. Generally, the traditional Americano coffee ratio is 1:8, but FrontStreet Coffee currently does not use this ratio. FrontStreet made corresponding adjustments based on the cup size produced by the store, and finally set the powder-to-water ratio of Americano coffee at 1:4.5.
Iced Americano
The process of making iced Americano is very simple and convenient. You only need to mix the amount of water you need according to the 1:1 ratio of ice water, and then extract the espresso and pour it in.
The difference between hot | iced Americano, FrontStreet Coffee lists the following three aspects:
1. The color of coffee drinks. Hot Americano is brown-black in color, while iced Americano is transparent brown. This is related to the ratio of coffee liquid to water. The hot American water liquid ratio of FrontStreet Coffee is approximately1:4.5, while iced American style has reached1:9Around.
2. The difference in caffeine content. Only take one portion of the hot American style on Front Street.espresso, and iced American style will use two portions.
3. The taste is different. The flavor of iced American style will be more restrained, and the blessing of ice cubes will make it refreshing and not heavy. The hot American style will be relatively thick, full of aroma, and superficialcremaIt will increase the layering and creaminess of the entire coffee, and the body will naturally increase. The hot coffee liquid in the Iced Americano cools down quickly after encountering ice cubes, causing the overall flavor to change and remain consistent. However, as the temperature changes, the flavor of hot American style will also change accordingly. Take FrontStreet Coffee's hot American style as an example: the coffee will have a mixed aroma of flowers and wine. When the temperature is high, there will be an obvious sense of fermentation in the mouth. The "grease" on the surface will give the coffee a creamy and smooth touch. When the temperature drops, the sour taste begins to appear, and the aroma of the fermented wine will remain in your mouth for a long time when you close your mouth. When the temperature is palatable, the sweetness is also very obvious, with the taste of caramel.
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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
