Australian white coffeeAs the specialty coffee market becomes more and more mature, it has now become one of the essential milk espresso on specialty coffee shop menus. Many people have asked me about Qian Street. Isn’t it all about milk and coffee? What is the difference between Australian white coffee and latte? So what kind of drink is Australian white coffee (Flat white)? This article on Front Street will explain in detail what isAustralian white coffeeAnd how to make Australian White Coffee.
what isAustralian white coffee(Flat White)？
In fact, to put it simply, compared to Latte, Australian white coffee is an espresso drink with a smaller proportion of milk and a larger proportion of coffee. In simple terms, Front Street means that Australian white coffee is much richer than latte. In the past few years, many cafes did not offer Australian white coffee. One of the possible reasons is that the concept, standards and characteristics of Australian white coffee are not very popular. The other is that in coffee shops that already provide latte and cappuccino, adding another milk coffee option seems a bit complicated.
As there are more and more specialty coffee beans, the quality of the coffee beans blended in many cafes is getting better and better. There is no burnt and bitter taste like espresso in the past. People are more willing to show their stores through the ratio of more coffee and less milk.EspressoAs for the characteristics of the drinks, some have begun to use coffee beans from a single production area to make SOE to complete the Australian white coffee, which reflects the unique flavor of the production area and the fusion of milk and lactose, creating a wonderful oral experience.
Just like when FrontStreet Coffee makes espresso with milk, it usually usesSun-dried red cherries from Ethiopia and sherry coffee beans from HondurasUse a 3:7 blend for espresso extraction. After high-pressure extraction, the espresso beans blended in this way have a rich aroma, soft acidity and a nutty cocoa-like aftertaste. By heating the milk to stimulate the lactose in it, and mixing it with espresso, the lactose and berry-like acidity in the milk will produce a milkshake-like sweetness, but it will not steal the limelight of the wine aroma, making people "addicted" after drinking it once.
In Australia, milk coffee is usually served in wide-mouth cups, so generally speaking, the thickness of the milk foam in a cup of Australian white coffee is only about 5mm. Because it blends better with coffee, good Australian white coffee should have a silky and rich taste. If we talk about Kachi Knob coffee andLatteWhat you want is "cotton" with a strong sense of air, so what you pursue for Australian white coffee is silky "smooth".
Australian white coffeeThe origin of
Regarding the origin of Australian white coffee, some say it appeared in Sydney in the 1980s, while others say it appeared in Melbourne in 1970. Living in big cities such as Melbourne and Sydney in Australia is actually not easy because prices are very high (house prices also remain high), but drinking coffee is still a fairly common lifestyle habit, and the price is usually not expensive. Australian coffee also has a very high level. Usually every neighborhood has at least one high-quality coffee shop, feeding the spirit and taste buds of local residents.
In fact, Australia is originally a place where immigrants and cultures gather together. Thanks to a large number of European immigrants, coffee culture has slowly taken root in Australia since World War II. Today, on the world coffee map, metropolitan cities such as Sydney or Melbourne have long planted a flag. What's more, coffee drinks such as milk coffee have even made a counterattack in North America, causing Starbucks to withdraw the "cappuccino" that has been sold for more than 30 years from the item and replace it withFlat white(Starbucks calls Australian white coffeeFulibai). One after another, coffee shops in the UK, Germany, etc. have begun to offer Australian white coffee.Flat white, piccolo latte, long black and other rich Italian coffee drinks with Australian proprietary names.
How to make Australian White Coffee?
Front Street uses the Pegasus E98 espresso machine. Here are the extraction parameters:
Pressure: 9 bar
Temperature: 94 degrees
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)
Recommended ratio of milk to coffee for Australian white coffee
Milk: Full-fat fresh milk (Weiji fresh milk used in Front Street)
Temperature for whipping milk: 50-60 degrees Celsius (too low a temperature will not activate the lactose in the milk, and too high a temperature will destroy the protein in the milk, resulting in a grainy texture)
Milk foam thickness: 5mm (1cm milk foam is used to make latte coffee, 1.5cm thick milk foam is used to make cappuccino coffee)
Espresso content: 40ml
Milk content: 140ml
Front Street retains the characteristics of small cup size, thin milk foam, and double espresso as the base in its Australian white. When making Australian white on Front Street, a ceramic cup with a capacity of about 200ml, which is smaller than the hot latte, is used to pour the newly extracted double Ristretto. Front Street believes that there should not be too much milk, otherwise it will overwhelm the aroma of the coffee, so the ratio of coffee to milk here is 1:5, which is about 150ml of fresh milk.
Front Street hopes that customers will enjoy the taste of Australian White, which is creamy and smooth but not too "watery". It will retain a 0.3cm milk foam layer, so the milk needs to be whipped with less air than a latte, so the foam layer can be so thin. Front Street believes that it is best to control the temperature of milk at 55 to 60 degrees Celsius, which can highlight the sweetness without being too hot. Finally, mix the whipped milk evenly into the coffee liquid and you can taste it.
The Australian white coffee at the Front Street store presents the aroma of vanilla, cream, chocolate milk, whiskey-filled chocolate, and the sour and sweet berries. It has a mellow and mellow taste and a long-lasting aftertaste.
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
