For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please pay attention to: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee）
When everyone walks into a coffee shop, many people will be attracted by the barista's technique of making fancy coffee. The barista uses smooth latte art to perfectly blend espresso and milk to create a cup of delicious and fragrant Italian coffee. Although FrontStreet Coffee mainly sells Pour over(V60) coffee beans, with more than 50 kinds of coffee beans from different production areas, FrontStreet Coffee also sells Italian coffee.
FrontStreet Coffee's espresso coffee includes latte, cappuccino, Americano, toffee latte, and mocha latte. Each espresso has its own flavor. Italian coffees such as piccolo coffee, dirty coffee, and Fuli white are rarely produced. Coffees like Fuli White are more common in Starbucks. The English name of Fuli White is Flat White, which is originally the famous Australian White. Flat White has many translations. Generally, coffee shops are called Australian White, Costa is called Chunyi White, and Starbucks is called Fuli White! Luckin calls it Aorui White, and McDonald’s calls it Aozhenbai. McDonald’s Aozhenbai coffee does not taste as bitter as other brands’ Aozhenbai.
"Furi White", when you hear this name for the first time, you may associate it with white coffee, or it may refer to coffee with less coffee content and a whiter color. Starbucks' new product "Flat White" tastes very similar to latte. Flat White is more bitter than latte, slightly bitterer than latte, with an aftertaste; latte is more milky and slightly bitter. In our memory, latte tastes milky and slightly bitter, while Fuli White Bitter tastes slightly milky. Coffee, which has become popular globally and in the Chinese market recently, is actually a variant of cappuccino called "flat white". Latte coffee with fine milk foam originated in Australia and actually appeared as early as the 1980s.
At this point, Front Street needs to explain the issue about Australia and White. Australian White is a coffee drink originating from Australia. But later, some people claimed that Australian white actually originated in New Zealand. New Zealanders prefer a Double Ristretto, while our Aussies prefer a Single Espresso. Australian White combines fine and tiny milk foam into one part coffee espresso or two parts Ristretto. To some extent, it is similar to a traditional 5-ounce cup (150mL) cappuccino or latte. Therefore, the proportion of coffee is higher, the milk foam is lighter and more delicate, and the Espresso flavor is more mellow and has the aroma of milk.
Ristretto means restriction, so ristretto is actually an espresso with a limited flow rate, which means that the flow rate of ristretto will be slower. Front Street is giving you a simple example. If espresso uses 18g and extracts 36g of espresso in about 25 seconds, then ristretto uses 18g of powder and extracts 18g of espresso in about 25 seconds, so the ristretto will be very strong (the grinding degree will also be different from normal espresso).
When Front Street makes Australian white, they usually combine a double portion of Ristretto with milk with thinner milk foam and put it into a 180mL coffee cup, which makes the coffee aroma of the flat white more intense. Flat white (a cup of 200ml): The base is two parts of espresso. On this basis, some places will also extract esp for a longer time, two parts of Ristretto.
According to Front Street, many friends have little idea of the differences between Australian white, piccolo coffee, dirty coffee, cappuccino, and latte, so Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) will share the relevant knowledge with you.
Australian white coffeeWhat is the difference between it and Piccolo Coffee?
Piccolo latte is more like a smaller version of latte, with a smaller cup, smaller capacity, and less coffee and milk than common espresso. It is necessary to extract 15 to 20 grams of espresso coffee and match it with 4 times the milk. Australian White Coffee, as you can know from the previous article, Australian White Coffee is a coffee that highlights the taste of coffee. Latte is a coffee drink with a lot of milk added, while cappuccino is a milk coffee with thicker milk foam. Australian white coffee is a coffee with a richer taste, less milk, and thinner milk foam.How to make Australian white coffeeNot all the same. When it comes to the choice of concentrated base, New Zealanders like to use Double Ristretto to make Australian white coffee, while Australian baristas like to use Single Espresso.
Front Street believes that Australian white coffee feels more like a cup of coffee with milk; latte feels like a cup of coffee-flavored milk; and cappuccino feels like a cup of milky coffee with dense milk foam. Australian white coffee can better demonstrate the quality of coffee beans than latte coffee and is more suitable for expressing the flavor of the coffee production area. It is also like the very popular SOE (single orgin espresso) single-origin espresso coffee, which caters to the characteristics of the third wave of coffee trends that focus on coffee production areas and trace their origins.The coffee cup used for dirty coffee must be chilled in the refrigerator first, then put refrigerated milk into the cup, and then pour the espresso. Visually, the coffee looks like stained white fresh milk. When tasting, the fusion of hot and cold brings a unique layered taste.
When searching online for the differences between these three coffees, you will find that most of the explanations focus on the thickness of the milk foam. Front Street believes that the thickness of the milk foam only affects the taste of the coffee to a certain extent, but does not determine the taste of the coffee. What determines the difference between Australian white, cappuccino and latte mainly lies in the proportion of coffee.
In fact, the difference between the three can be divided based on the richness of the coffee aroma: Australian White > Kabu > Latte; and another classification can be made based on the thickness of the milk foam: Kabu > Latte > Australian White. Flat White's requirement for milk is to remove the loose milk foam on the surface, leaving only the more delicate part in the middle.
The above is aboutAustralian white coffeeFor some little knowledge, I will continue to share with you how to make a delicious cup of Australian white coffee. Before making Australian white coffee, you need to select Italian coffee beans. The espresso extracted from a good Italian coffee bean can add a lot of points to the Australian white coffee.
Currently, Front Street uses an Italian blend of beans, the Sunflower Warm Sun Blend, which is sold in the store. This blend uses sherry from Honduras and red cherry coffee from Ethiopian Yelgacheffe. Through constant blending by FrontStreet Coffee baristas, a perfect blending ratio of 7:3 was obtained. The espresso produced has obvious acidity, berry flavor and wine aroma, with a pleasant aftertaste.
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.
Maybe you will be confused when you see this, why can only espresso beans be used to make espresso coffee, but not Pour over(V60) coffee beans? Here you need to consider the degree of roasting of the coffee beans. Generally, the roasting degree of Italian coffee is darker and is Italian roasted. The roasting degree of Pour over(V60) beans is generally from light roasting to dark roasting. The espresso produced by using light roasting will be more acidic, and the espresso produced will have a poor flavor. Front Street believes that another reason is the cost issue. Generally, the cupping score of Pour over(V60) coffee beans is required to be above 80 points, which belongs to the specialty coffee level. However, Italian beans mostly use front-street commercial blended beans, and the cost is of course much lower than Pour over(V60) coffee.
how to makeflat whiteAustralian white coffee?
The first step is to prepare the espresso base. Front Street uses espresso coffee, using 20 grams of coffee powder to extract 27 grams of espresso liquid in 20 seconds.
The second step is to whip the milk. The milk froth should be as small and thin as possible. Pour the whipped milk into the espresso, blend until 80% full and then gently push out into a flower shape. Because the flat white milk foam is thin and the pattern is easy to lose shape, it is recommended to make a relatively simple heart-shaped pattern or a dot pattern, or not to make pattern latte art. A cup of delicious Australian white coffee is ready!
For more knowledge about specialty coffee, please pay attention to: Front Street Coffee (Frontsteet Coffee）
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
