Many friends who are new to coffee will be troubled by these questions. For example, what is Americano? What is the difference between Italian coffee and Americano? Which one is more authentic and delicious? Today Front Street will answer them one by one. First, let’s clarify a few relationships:
What is Americano?
Use Espresso Italian espresso coffee as the base, add hot water in proportion, and the diluted coffee isAmericano. Americano coffee originated when American troops landed in Europe during World War II. Because Americans were not used to drinking Italian espresso, they came up with the idea of diluting the coffee with water to drink it.
However, although Americano coffee is mixed with a lot of water, the flavor is softer than ordinary espresso coffee, and the aroma is not reduced. However, many cafes now do not pay much attention to the order of making American coffee. Some people think that it is nothing more than the difference between retaining the oil and dispersing the oil.
FrontStreet Coffee Hot American Style Pairing
front street productionAmericanoThe espresso extracted from the Front Street Sunflower Warm Sun Blend beans, which is a blend of Front Street Ethiopian red cherries and Front Street Honduran sherry, is used. Front Street dilutes 40g of coffee liquid extracted from 20g of coffee powder in different proportions, and finally uses a ratio of 1:6 (40g of coffee liquid to 240g of water) to make Americano coffee.
The taste of a good cup of Americano coffee should be overall balanced and mellow; it should not be thin, bitter or sour. When we drink American coffee, we feel bitter. This is due to over-extraction of espresso, while sourness means under-extraction of espresso. The thin taste is easy to understand, because the proportion of water is too large.
What is espresso?
We can understand this issue this way: as long as the coffee is extracted using an espresso machine, it is called espresso.
What is Espresso?
Espressoalso known asespresso。Espresso is both a coffee drink and a coffee brewing method. At a pressure close to 9 BAR (i.e. 9 times the normal atmospheric pressure), nearly boiling water is allowed to penetrate the finely ground coffee powder to extract a cup of coffee with high consistency and strong taste. The parameters for extracting espresso are affected by the amount of powder, ratio, time, grinding degree, water temperature, and pressure.
This cup of high-concentration coffee extracted in a very short time is about 30ml, with a layer of beautiful golden brown coffee crema floating on the surface! The texture of the oil is rich and creamy, inviting and delicious. This layer of grease is generally called Cream. Crema is responsible for the aroma, and the extract is responsible for the taste.
Espresso is a very classic coffee in Italy. It has a rich and layered taste. It can highlight certain flavor characteristics of the coffee, and you will have a unique taste when you taste it carefully. Here is a reminder for everyone to focus on:Espressoespressoalso asAmericancoffee、lattecoffeeWaiting for popularcoffeeThe base of the drink.I am not afraid to tell you bluntly that as the basis of many Italian coffees, if Espresso is not good, then there is no need to expect other Italian coffees to taste good.
Drinking Espressoespressobefore，
whywantFirstTake a sip of ice water?
Because ice water can make your tongue more sensitive, it can also open your taste buds and open your tongue to flavor perception. If you eat something with strong flavor before drinking coffee, your mouth will be full of peculiar smell. Drinking coffee at this time will definitely affect your judgment of the coffee flavor. Then drinking a sip of ice water can not only clean your mouth, but also eliminate some taste interference.
Do you need to add sugar to your Espresso coffee?
Some people like to add sugar, and some people don't. Whether to add sugar or not depends on each person. However, from a health perspective, FrontStreet Coffee recommends that you add less or even none.
The traditional way of drinking Espresso is to add a small spoonful of sugar to the Espresso as it is served, and then drink it while stirring; the texture of the coffee will become milder, the bitterness will be less obvious, and appropriate sourness will appear one after another.
If you are a coffee lover, you must go to a coffee shop and order a cup of Espresso. Why? Because you will find that the espresso coffee made by the espresso machine is so rich. It turns out that it brings you not only bitterness, but also fruity acid, floral, nutty, and even wine aroma.
Front Street believes that choosing a suitable Italian blended bean is also very important. Blend coffee, also known as blended coffee, is a blend of various single-origin coffee beans, thereby giving full play to the strengths of various single-origin coffee beans. Blend beans are mixed from coffee beans from different origins to create a more balanced taste.Before blending coffee beans, Front Street believes that it is necessary to first understand the different types of coffee and flavors in the world. Beans will have different characteristics depending on the place of origin. Different coffee beans have different personalities due to different varieties and origins. There are subtle differences in sour, bitter, sweet, aroma, mellow and other flavors.
There are currently two types of Italian coffee beans on the market, one isSingle origin espresso beans, one is more commonBlended Espresso Beans. Single-origin coffee beans tend to focus more on the unique characteristics of a certain type of coffee.
Single origin espresso beans
Single-origin espresso can be said to be a very popular Italian coffee base in recent years. Single-origin espresso is "single orgin espresso", and the abbreviation is SOE that we often hear. Single-origin espresso means using only one type of coffee bean, and this type of coffee bean often can only represent a certain coffee origin. Therefore, this feature is actually the same as one of the characteristics of Pour over(V60) coffee to express the regional flavor of the coffee origin.
The difficulty of making SOE single-origin espresso coffee is,The first is the coordination of roasting, and the second is the appropriate extraction conditions.In terms of roasting level, we just shared that the roasting level of single-origin espresso beans should not be too dark to avoid consuming the regional flavor of the place of origin, but at the same time, it should not be too light. Why? Because espresso is an extraction method that has to withstand a high-pressure extraction environment, light roasting will make the cooked coffee beans too hard. After grinding, the gaps between the coffee powder particles are large, and it is difficult to achieve sufficient density after filling. At this time, the pressure is added, and the water flow quickly passes through the coffee powder cake. The final result is that the flow rate is too fast, the extraction time is short, and the insufficient extraction makes the whole cup of espresso coffee sour and lacking in body.
FrontStreet Coffee Italian coffee bean blending plan
Next, FrontStreet Coffee will take you through the contents of several blended beans of FrontStreet Coffee.Depending on the type of coffee, the Front Street Italian coffee beans prepared by Front Street will have different characteristics in taste and flavor.
1. Balanced Italian coffee beans - FrontStreet Coffee's premium blend of 100% Arabica coffee beans
Recipe:Brazil (70%), Colombia (30%).
This comprehensive blend of coffee is relatively balanced in terms of acidity, bitterness, and aroma. It is neither too acidic nor too mellow. It is suitable for friends who are new to Italian coffee. From Colombian coffee beans with a sour and mellow taste to Brazilian coffee beans with a mild bitterness, Front Street blends these coffee beans in proportion to form a comprehensive blend of coffee with a balanced taste and moderate concentration, which is suitable for daily production in coffee shops.
2. Bitter-based Italian coffee beans-FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Front Street Commercial Blend Coffee Beans
Recipe: Colombian (30%), Brazilian (60%), Robusta (10%).
Taking into account the diversity of the audience, Front Street needs to use strong-flavored coffee beans to create strong-flavored blended beans. These coffee beans include Colombian coffee beans with a strong nutty chocolate flavor, Brazilian coffee beans with a soft bitter taste, and Robusta coffee beans with a mellow taste and rich oil. The coffee beans prepared in this way have a stronger bitter taste and are deeply loved by coffee lovers. They can also meet the daily needs of opening a shop.
3. Slightly acidic and mellow Italian coffee beans-FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Front Street black cocoa blend (100% Arabica)
Recipe: Yunnan coffee beans (40%), Brazil (60%).
Front Street's Front Street black cocoa blended (100% Arabica) coffee beans are extremely cost-effective and present the most popular taste and flavor. Whether it is the first time to come into contact with coffee or friends who are serious coffee lovers, they can easily accept this Italian coffee bean. The first choice is Brazilian coffee beans with a balanced taste. On this basis, Yunnan coffee beans with a weaker flavor and taste are blended. This Front Street basic Italian blend is suitable for shop owners and home users who prioritize cost and have average taste requirements.
4. Italian coffee beans with the main aroma of wine - FrontStreet Coffee sunflower warm sun blended coffee beans
Recipe: Front Street Honduran sherry (70%), Front Street Yirgacheffe red cherry (30%).
The Italian coffee beans from Front Street are named Sunflower Warm Yang. As the name suggests, the aroma of this special Front Street Sunflower Warm Italian blended coffee bean is as comfortable as the warm sun, and the taste and flavor are eye-catching. Mainly based on Front Street Honduran sherry coffee beans with a fragrant fermented wine aroma, and paired with Front Street Yirgacheffe red cherry coffee beans known for their sour taste, a comprehensive coffee with rich aroma can be prepared.
Italian coffee or Americano, which one tastes better?
Front Street uses double espresso to make espresso. Currently, the one used in the store is roasted by itself.Front Street Sunflower Beans。We use Front Street Ethiopian sun-dried red cherries + Front Street Honduran sherry coffee beans, in a ratio of 7:3. The extracted espresso flavor has obvious fruit acidity in the mouth, a light berry aroma lingers, a rich wine aroma and chocolate flavor, and a sweet and comfortable 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
