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Flat White coffee, an Italian milk coffee made from espresso and milk, will have different translation names in different stores, such as Luckin's Aorui White Coffee, Starbucks' Fuli White, and Costa Pure White Coffee.FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) is here today to talk about whatFlat White Coffee。
what isFlat White？
Flat White originated in Melbourne, Australia (some people claim it originated in New Zealand). It is the most commonly ordered coffee in coffee shops in New Zealand and Australia. In addition to the origin dispute, the methods of Australian white coffee are also different. Front Street believes that the biggest feature of Flat White is that it is a milk coffee drink with a richer taste, less milk, and thinner milk foam.
Based on the characteristics of Australian white coffee, two different production methods have been derived. Taking New Zealanders as an example, they use double espresso (Double Ristretto) as the base and add whipped milk to create a milky coffee with a rich taste. Australians use Single Espresso, which is blended with thin milk foam to create milk coffee. The specific production methods vary depending on the coffee beans used in each store and the flavor and taste they want to express.
We use Front Street’s classic Italian blended coffee beans, which is a recipe composed of three origins: Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam. It is darkly roasted, which can highlight the mellow aroma of the coffee to the greatest extent, and also allows everyone to easily extract rich and dense coffee crema. It is very suitable for making American style diluted with water or latte with milk.
The difference between Flat White, latte and cappuccino
Compared with common latte and cappuccino, Flat White is the biggest difference in the ratio of milk foam and milk.
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 the milk foam layer cannot be allowed to bulge. 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 depends 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 Flat White delicious?
For the coffee base, FrontStreet Coffee will choose Double Ristretto. 20 grams of coffee powder will extract 30 grams of coffee liquid. The extraction time is 22-24 seconds, but FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) will Coffee) needs to be reminded that the extraction plan of each coffee bean will be slightly different. This extraction plan is the extraction parameter adjusted by the barista before opening every day, and is based on the Nuanyang blend used in the store.
Pour the extracted coffee liquid into the cup prepared in advance, pour 150ml of milk into the milk jug and beat. Whipping milk requires less air intake than latte coffee, and the foam layer is thinner and denser. The temperature is best controlled at 55 to 60 degrees Celsius, which makes it easier to drink.
Finally, just pour the whipped milk into the coffee. Because the thin milk foam does not make the liquid surface level with the coffee cup, its appearance looks flat, so it is also called flat white coffee.
Front Street's Espresso, which is made from "Front Street Classic Italian Blend Coffee Beans", presents a rich aroma of dark chocolate, butter, and macadamia nuts. After being fused with milk, the Australian White Coffee presents the taste of chocolate milk and caramel biscuits. It has a mellow and mellow aroma in the mouth 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
