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Whether it is a large or small cup, or adding water and milk, common coffee drinks such as American style, latte, Australian white, cappuccino... all use espresso as the base. Espresso is very tolerant. Adding accessories or changing the proportions can become another popular drink. For example, the Australian white coffee we are going to talk about today on Front Street is based on hot latte and has become a popular espresso coffee category.
Flat white Australian white coffeeHow come?
Regarding the origin of Australian white, Australians and New Zealanders both insist that it originated from their respective countries. Although we can't be sure where Australian White Coffee comes from, we can be sure that the birth of Australian White Coffee originated from Australians' higher pursuit of coffee flavor. Australian white began to become popular in the 1980s, when people began to have a higher demand for coffee, and at the same time they did not want too much milk in the coffee, so that they could still enjoy the strong taste of espresso, and it tasted creamy and smooth, so the milk was also whipped. Australian White perfectly solved these problems and gradually became the cornerstone of Australian and New Zealander coffee culture.
Based on the characteristics of Australian white coffee, Australians and New Zealanders present this rich milk coffee in their own way, thus deriving two different production methods. One is a milk coffee based on double espresso (Double Ristretto) with whipped fresh milk added to give it a rich taste. The other is milk coffee made from Single Espresso and thin milk foam.
The specific production methods vary depending on the coffee beans used in each store and the flavor and taste they want to express. The Australian White Coffee produced at the Front Street store uses the self-roasted "Sunflower Warm Sun Blend Coffee", which has a fresh flavor and a soft taste. Therefore, the Australian White Coffee uses double espresso as the base.
What is the difference between Australian white and latte?
The biggest distinguishing feature of Australian white coffee is the thin and smooth milk foam layer. The "Flat" in Flat white means flat, which means that the prepared Australian white coffee must be so thin that it is flush with the rim of the cup and cannot allow the milk foam layer to bulge, so that every sip of espresso liquid has a silky foam layer.
Among the three common types of hot milk coffee, cappuccino has the thickest milk foam, generally 1 to 2 cm, while the thinnest, Australian white coffee, has generally 0.3 to 0.5 cm. Most of the milk foam for latte coffee will have a bulge of about 0.5 to 0.7cm, while the milk foam for Australian white coffee can only be below 0.5cm, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve a "flat" liquid level. Regarding the specific thickness of the milk foam, each coffee shop is different. In order to allow customers to taste the upper layer of coffee oil to the greatest extent, some baristas will directly heat the milk without foaming it and inject it into the espresso. Front Street hopes that customers will enjoy a dense and smooth taste of Australian white coffee, with a 0.3cm milk foam layer retained.
The Australian white coffee that pursues a rich taste will add a smaller proportion of milk to the espresso. The specific amount of milk is also based on the cup size produced by the store. Imagine if you use the same milk ratio as a latte, the overall taste is more like coffee-flavored milk. For example, the ceramic cup of the Australian white coffee produced in the Front Street store is 180ml. If two portions of Ristretto are 30g as the base, 150g of hot milk needs to be added to present a richer and fuller coffee flavor.
How to make a cup of fragrant Australian white coffee
As everyone's love for espresso continues to grow, many "coffee enthusiasts" have equipped their homes with pressurized espresso machines. If you want to make Australian white coffee at home, you can also refer to the process and parameters produced by the Front Street store.
The espresso coffee produced at the Front Street store uses the "Sunflower Warm Blend" coffee beans roasted by Front Street itself. It is a blend of sun-dried Yirgacheffe red cherries and Honduran sherry coffee in a ratio of 3:7. The espresso produced has the flavor of whiskey and vanilla, paired with the sweet and sour tropical fruits. Even the espresso does not have a strong and irritating taste, but instead presents a rich layered feel.
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.
The espresso produced by Front Street uses a powder-to-liquid ratio of 1:1.6, that is, 20 grams of coffee powder is used to extract 32 grams of coffee liquid, and the extraction time is controlled between 27 and 30 seconds. The capacity of the Australian white coffee cup produced by Front Street is about 200ml. Prepare 170ml of refrigerated fresh milk. The dense milk foam after whipping will be about 5mm. Control it at 55 to 65 degrees Celsius, which is just the entrance temperature. Gently shake the Italian essence concentrated base in the cup to evenly and fully blend the whipped hot milk.
The freshly made Australian white is as smooth as chocolate milk in the mouth, with the taste of whiskey-filled chocolate, a mellow and mellow aroma, 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
