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Nowadays, although more and more coffee categories are appearing on cafe menus, milk-based coffee products are still the most popular. According to multiple surveys, latte has always been the top two sales in the coffee category, but in 2018, a brand calledFlat white (Australian white coffee)Like a dark horse, it is approaching the latte rankings!
It is reported thatAustralian white coffeeSales in 2018 increased by 56% year-on-year! Why is Australian White Coffee so popular all of a sudden? What kind of coffee is Australian White Coffee? Next, FrontStreet Coffee will talk about this “dark horse of milk coffee”!
Who is Australian White Coffee?
Regarding where the Australian white coffee comes from, both Australia and New Zealand say it belongs to them. Therefore, there will be a long-lasting debate as to whether the Australian white coffee comes from Australia or New Zealand.
An Australian cafe owner once said that in the mid-1980s, he had ""Flat White"One word. He said that Flat White emerged because many people at that time liked to add a small amount of whipped and heated milk to espresso.
Initially, this coffee shop used a double shot of ristretto (espresso) and milk heated with steam to create a small amount of foam to make the flat white. This drink is poured without latte art. It is poured directly into a small ceramic cup filled with espresso, leaving white milk foam floating on the surface, so it is named Flat White.
However, this statement was questioned by a New Zealander, saying that he created FLat white! It was when he was working as a barista that he made a mistake while trying to make cappuccino for customers, and the milk foam was thinned, so he invented the flat white.
Whether flat white was invented in Australia or New Zealand, one thing is for sure: since 2017, it has become one of the more and more popular coffee products around the world!
FrontStreet Coffee believes that the more important reason why people love this product so much is that it has a richer coffee taste than other milk coffees, and it is easier for the public to accept than espresso.
Australian white coffeeCharacteristics
With the development of the specialty coffee industry, in order to attract more consumers after the millennium, coffee shops have become more particular about the patterns displayed on milk coffee. Australian white coffee has also gradually changed from adding a small amount of milk with thin milk foam to the espresso to blending milk and coffee to create a simple latte pattern, but the overall weight has not changed much.
Compared with latte coffee, the weight of Australian white coffee will be smaller, about 3oz (100ml), so it is a milk coffee with a rich coffee taste. Australian white coffee will suddenly become popular in recent years, because more and more milk coffee consumers are gradually pursuing the flavor of coffee under the cultural influence of specialty coffee. Even if milk is added, it is used as an auxiliary material to sublimate the flavor.
How to Make Australian White Coffee
Anyone who read the article carefully noticed that a coffee liquid called "ristretto" is used to make Australian white coffee. Is it any different from regular espresso?
In fact, the difference between the two is that the concentration of espresso coffee will be higher than that of regular espresso coffee. Under the same extraction parameters, espresso coffee will shorten the extraction time and the amount will be smaller than regular espresso coffee.
FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) stores extract espresso, usually using "Front Street-Sunflower Warm Italian Blend Coffee Beans". This coffee bean is a blend of single-origin coffee from two production areas in Honduras and Ethiopia. It has a rich aroma of fermented wine, vanilla cream, roasted nuts and caramel-like flavors.
For those who like mellow coffee, we recommend Front Street Classic Italian Blend Coffee. This is a recipe composed of three origins: Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam. It uses deep roasting, which can highlight the mellow aroma of coffee to the greatest extent, and also allows everyone to easily extract rich and dense coffee oil. It is very suitable for making American style diluted with water or latte with milk.
FrontStreet Coffee uses ordinary espresso in its daily production (latte, Americano, and cappuccino are all made with Espresso). Usually, a pressure of 9-10bar is used to extract coffee liquid with a powder-to-liquid ratio of about 1:2. Generally, a single espresso uses 9-11g of coffee powder and extracts about 15-25g of coffee liquid. A double espresso uses 18-20g of coffee powder and extracts 35-45g of coffee liquid. The less coffee liquid is extracted, the higher the coffee concentration will be.
Ristretto is actually espresso with a smaller extraction ratio. Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee uses the same grinding size and powder volume as espresso, extracting less coffee liquid and taking a longer extraction time. Generally, the ratio of powder to liquid extracted is about 1:1.6.
Be careful! The strength of espresso coffee does not mean that the coffee flavor is richer, but the overall taste of the coffee liquid (sweet, sour and bitter). If it is too strong, it will easily show a sour/burnt bitter taste. Therefore, in the process of making espresso coffee, you still need to adjust the amount of powder used and the extraction time when necessary.
Australian white coffee production proportions
To make Australian white coffee, the extraction parameters of Front Street espresso are 19.8g powder to extract 30g coffee liquid, which takes 27 seconds (the performance of each grinder and coffee machine is different, and these parameters cannot be followed 100%).
It uses a 100ml cup, adds extracted espresso, and blends the hot milk with thin milk foam and coffee. The flavor is expressed as a rich fermented wine aroma. The acidity of the berries produces an obvious sweetness after the hot milk is added. The aftertaste is the sweetness of caramel chocolate.
what isDirty coffee？
Dirty coffee also uses espresso, but what this product emphasizes is that it uses refrigerated milk with a high butterfat content and a frozen cup. The espresso needs to float on the milk surface, so you need to directly use an ice cup to fill the iced milk and directly receive the extracted espresso at close range.
Dirty changes in taste, from strong to light, from dark to light. The first sip is rich coffee, and the last sip is sweet. Therefore, don’t keep it for too long after you get it, and don’t stir it. If you can, try to finish a cup of Dirty in three sips and experience the charm of the gradual change~
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
