When walking into a coffee shop, many people will choose a fancy coffee based on espresso, such as latte, cappuccino, Americano, etc. Each coffee has its own unique flavor, such as the perfect blend of coffee milk in latte, the thick milk foam in cappuccino, and the light and soft Australian white coffee, all of which are very popular. In this article, FrontStreet Coffee will share with you the knowledge about making Italian coffee.
To make a cup of fragrant and delicious fancy coffee, you need to prepare two materials, namely espresso and whipped milk. Then mix these two materials in different proportions and order to get fancy coffee with different flavors. The latte and cappuccino that everyone loves are paired in this way, but there is less milk foam on the surface of the latte.
Milk plays a very important role in a cup of coffee. Good milk texture can enhance the flavor characteristics of coffee. With well-beaten milk foam, you can make silky, sweet milk. Like FrontStreet Coffee, whole milk is used because the fat and protein contained in whole milk not only enhance the flavor, but also make the foam more stable.
Another issue is about the preservation of milk. If milk has been sitting for a few days and is no longer as fresh, the protein will break down into amino acids. Putting the milk in the refrigerator can slow down this process, but if it is not returned to the refrigerator in time after taking it out, it will accelerate the denaturation of the milk, making it still taste or smell fresh. Therefore, Front Street recommends that all used milk must be placed in the refrigerator.
After everyone has chosen a type of milk, it is about the steps of whipping the milk. There are two steps to whipping milk, whipping and beating. Next, FrontStreet Coffee will introduce the following process of whipping milk.
1. Pour the milk into the milk vat. The liquid level should be 1/3 to 2/3 below the water outlet of the milk vat.
2. Clean the steam pipe and remove residual matter.
3. Move the milk tank close to the steam pipe until the steam pipe is just submerged in the liquid surface, and the submersion point is slightly away from the center of the liquid surface. Open the steam valve and listen for the hissing sound of the steam operating.
4. After getting enough fine milk foam, slowly remove the milk tank. This step is to pass. At this time, the temperature of the milk cannot exceed body temperature! Heat the milk to about 60 degrees, but not more than 70 degrees, otherwise the protein structure in the milk will be destroyed.
5. Prepare to make cotton. Use the water outlet of the milk tank as a fulcrum, lift the milk tank upward, and let the steam pipe penetrate deep into the milk. The milk should vortex under the action of steam.
6. When the milk tank starts to feel hot to the touch, the temperature should reach 60~65℃ (the test method is to touch the bottom of the tank with your hand. At this temperature, you should not be able to hold on for 3 seconds), and the wadding is completed.
7. Do not close the steam valve yet, use steam to clean the steam pipe.
8. Tap the side of the milk tank to break up the large foam on the liquid surface, shake the milk tank, and mix the liquid and milk foam. A good portion of milk froth is ready to go.
After talking about milk, it’s about espresso. The first is to select beans. It is important to choose a coffee bean that suits your flavor. For example, the Italian blend beans currently used by FrontStreet Coffee are Sunflower Nuanyang coffee beans. This blend uses Honduras and Ethiopian coffee. Through constant blending by FrontStreet Coffee baristas, a perfect blending ratio of 6:4 was obtained. The espresso produced has obvious acidity, berry flavor and wine aroma, with a pleasant aftertaste.
This Italian coffee blend is roasted in-house by FrontStreet Coffee. In addition to this coffee bean, there are three other blends of coffee beans with different Italian flavors. For example, FrontStreet Coffee's basic blend of coffee beans: Yunnan coffee beans are used with Brazilian beans in a ratio of 3:7 to produce an espresso coffee with soft fruit acid, caramel sweetness, nutty, dark chocolate flavor, smooth and viscous, but light taste.
FrontStreet Coffee's specialty coffee blending: Colombia and Brazil are used. FrontStreet Coffee's baristas blend the coffee in a ratio of 3:7. The espresso produced is soft, slightly sour, sweet, and has a nutty aftertaste. The overall feeling is not too exciting, peaceful, and the oil is medium.
After everyone has selected the beans, they can extract the coffee beans. The following are the parameters for extracting sunflower warm sun coffee beans from FrontStreet Coffee:
Grinder: Galileo Q18
Grinding degree: 1.6
Pressure: 9 bar
Temperature: 90.5~96 degrees Celsius
Time: 20~30 seconds
Amount of powder: 20g (double espresso)
Extraction volume: 40ml
Ideally, the coffee liquid flowing out of the water outlet should be very uniform in color and thickness. If the beans are suddenly larger and smaller, it may be that the beans are ground too finely or the powder is pressed too firmly, which will prolong the time for the water to pass through the powder, resulting in over-extraction (strong bitterness); the beans may be ground too coarsely or the powder is not pressed hard enough, which will shorten the time for the water to pass through the powder, resulting in insufficient extraction (watery taste and thin taste).
If the extraction is successful, the espresso flavor extracted from FrontStreet Coffee: smooth taste, medium body, obvious acidity in the entrance accompanied by a light berry aroma, whiskey aroma, rich chocolate flavor, and obvious sweetness.
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
