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Americano is made by diluting espresso with water, usually using dark roasted Italian coffee beans. Front Street uses single-origin beans from two production areas to make American coffee beans, which has the advantage of complementing the low acidity of traditional Italian coffee and making the taste richer. Many people ask whether American coffee beans must be made with Italian blend coffee beans? What kind of flavor will American coffee beans made from other coffee beans have? In response to this problem, Front Street was obligated to conduct a production experiment, using two blended beans from Front Street for comparison.
What kind of coffee beans are used in Americano coffee?
There are two types of American coffee beans, one is blended coffee beans, and the other is SOE (single origin espresso). The biggest difference between the two is the number of types of coffee beans contained in it. The blended coffee beans are at least two types of coffee beans, while SOE only has one type of coffee beans.
Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) American coffee beans produced
The purpose of blending is to bring together the flavors of coffee beans from different producing areas to present a new flavor to achieve a more balanced effect. For example, if a coffee bean is smooth but lacks aroma, another bean with rich aroma can be added to complement each other and enhance each other's strengths and weaknesses. The blending suggestion is to choose three types of coffee beans for blending. If there are too many types, it will be difficult to control the flavor of the combination, and you may lose sight of one.
The coffee beans selected by SOE actually highlight the flavor of the production area. If you simply like coffee beans from a certain production area, choosing SOE will also suit your taste. Although SOE has outstanding performance, since it comes from a single origin, its shortcomings are relatively easy to be magnified. If the coffee beans are not of high quality, the SOE coffee will not taste good and cannot even be concealed. Therefore, in the actual operation process, SOE coffee has relatively high technical requirements in all aspects, which is one of the reasons why SOE coffee is usually more expensive than ordinary Espresso.
Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) How to make Americano?
Acid American coffee beans
Take【Front Street Coffee(FrontStreet Coffee）——Sunflower Warm Sun Coffee Beans] as an example
Using Honduran sherry coffee beans and Yirgacheffe red cherry coffee beans, the espresso flavor produced is obvious acidity, light berry aroma, wine aroma, rich chocolate flavor, and obvious sweetness.
Recommended parameters for making hot Americano coffee: Use 18 grams of powder with a double-ended handle (with a deviation of plus or minus 1 gram of powder), extract 36 grams of coffee liquid, and extract for 28 seconds. Pour the coffee liquid into a 200ml cup filled with hot water. If you like the coffee to be richer, you can reduce the amount of water appropriately. If you want a more dilute taste, you can add more water.
Full-bodied American coffee beans
Take [FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Front Street Commercial Blend Coffee Beans] as an example
Using Colombian coffee beans, Brazilian coffee beans and Robusta coffee beans, the coffee produced has the sweetness of caramel, the flavor of nuts, cocoa, and dark chocolate, with a balance of sweet and sour, a little bit of sweetness and bitterness, and a long-lasting aftertaste.
Recommended parameters for making iced Americano: 18 grams of powder with a double-ended handle (deviation of plus or minus 1 gram of powder), extract 36 grams of coffee liquid, extraction time is 28 seconds, pour the coffee liquid into a 330ml cup filled with ice cubes and water.
Medium and balanced American coffee beans
Take [FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) Front Street Blend 100% Arabica Coffee Beans] as an example
Using Colombian coffee beans and Brazilian coffee beans, the extracted coffee has a soft, slightly sour, sweet, nutty aftertaste. The overall feeling is not too irritating, mild, and the oil is medium.
Recommended parameters for making iced Americano: 18 grams of powder with a double-ended handle (deviation of plus or minus 1 gram of powder), extract 36 grams of coffee liquid, extraction time is 28 seconds, pour the coffee liquid into a 330ml cup filled with ice cubes and water.
FrontStreet Coffee Americano Coffee Beans
The above three blends of beans have different flavors in making American coffee. Some friends like to drink sour, then [Sunflower Warm Sun Blend Coffee Beans] is very suitable. If you want to drink something mellower, then [Front Street Commercial Blend Coffee Beans]. If you don’t want to be too sour or too heavy, you can choose [Front Street Premium Blend 100% Arabica Coffee Beans].
Tasting steps
When a cup of coffee is brought to you, don't rush to drink it. There should be a step-by-step process like tea or wine tasting, in order to achieve the purpose of relaxation, refreshment and enjoyment.
The first step is to smell the aroma and experience the strong aroma of coffee;
The second step is to observe the color. It is best for the coffee to appear dark brown, rather than completely black and bottomless;
The third step is to taste. Take a sip of black coffee first to feel the taste of original coffee. The coffee should be sweet, slightly bitter, slightly sour but not astringent in the mouth. Then taste it in small sips. Don't rush to swallow the coffee. Hold it in your mouth temporarily and let the coffee and saliva mix with the air for a while before swallowing.
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
