Italian coffee may be a series of coffee drinks that are generally loved by people. You may not like black coffee that is sour or bitter when you drink it directly, but Italian coffee can provide you with different taste and flavor experiences by adjusting the proportions.
Among them, adjusting the ratio of concentrate and milk may be the basic practice in Italian coffee, and Australian white coffee is also a representative of this series. So how is Australian white coffee made? How much is the espresso base and milk?
The Italians are really good at fancy coffee. They can pour espresso into ice cream to form a new product. What else can't they do? Yes, you can create new products by modifying the ratio of coffee to milk. Yes, that’s right.Flat WhiteAustralian white coffee.
Some friends will have doubts. Wasn’t Australia White invented by the people of Australia (or New Zealand)? Don't worry, the story goes like this. In the early days, Australia and New Zealand were colonized by some British and Irish people. Some of them have the habit of drinking coffee, so they also bring coffee culture to the local area. What is different from today's cafe coffee is that they drink coffee in a home style, without complicated names, just simple Black coffee and White coffee.
Black coffee is black coffee filtered from brewed coffee. White coffee is black coffee with milk added, and the color of the coffee beans changes from black to milky white, which is white coffee.
After World War II, Europe was devastated (physically), unemployment surged in Italy, and a large number of Italians went to Latin America and Australia to seek opportunities to make a living. Most of the people who go to Latin America and Australia are from North Italy (North Italy has a high level of industrialization and urbanization, and South Italy has developed agriculture), and they also bring Italian coffee to the local area.
Any specialty product must undergo localization transformation after entering the local market, otherwise it will be difficult to survive. This can be verified in the United States. When the Italians came to the United States to open Italian coffee shops, they copied the Italian style from the beginning. As a result, Americans simply did not accept such strong coffee, so the "American coffee" in Italian coffee appeared. At the same time, even American Italian latte will have a larger ratio of espresso to milk, making the coffee flavor less strong.
Back in Australia, Italian cafes have also been educated by the market, allowing them to understand what kind of latte coffee Australians need. They want a stronger coffee flavor, and don’t want a latte with a mouth full of milk foam (which can easily lead to social death) after drinking it. The solution is also very simple, just use less milk and less milk froth. Of course, after making the change, you need a new name so that others will think it is a different product. Because the milk foam becomes thinner, it cannot reach the traditional 11-point fullness. The fullest milk foam can only be flush with the rim of the cup, so it is called "Flat White". Flat means "flat", and white refers to white coffee with milk added.
Later, the second generation of Italians who were born and raised in Italy, with the development of the times, made Flat White more unique than other milk coffees. For example, many coffee shops have more than two kinds of Italian coffee beans. When making classic Italian latte and cappuccino, they will choose a comprehensive blend of Italian styles. When making flat white, they use beans from a single origin or blended beans that are different from traditional Italian flavors to highlight the coffee flavor characteristics of flat white.
In the extraction and concentration base, some coffee shops are not limited to the standard extraction method of espresso. Using a richer extraction, that is, only the middle and front parts of espresso are taken, which is called ristretto, because as long as the middle and front parts of espresso are rich, the amount is small, and it is difficult to highlight the coffee flavor after adding milk. The solution to this problem is also very crude, that is, if one part is not enough, then use two parts. In this way, the amount of double ristretto is almost the same as espresso.
It should be emphasized here that Flat White coffee does not necessarily use double ristretto as the base. Some coffee shops also choose esoresso, which is judged based on the final taste. But later on, people were eager to distinguish latte coffee from flat white, and many used the difference in concentrated base as one of the distinguishing points.
Therefore, one of the more commonly used flat white production parameters is that the weight of the double ristretto is about 30g, and then the ratio of adding milk is 1:5, that is, 150ml of milk, and the milk foam should be as thin as possible. Use a cup with a capacity of 200ml, so that the mixture of espresso, milk, milk foam and coffee cream fits perfectly into the 200ml cup.
My friend said: "I just wanted to know the ratio of coffee to milk in Australian White, but you told me a story!"
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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.
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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
