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Front Street believes that as a derivative of Americano coffee, bubble Americano coffee has a more enjoyable experience. Its characteristic is that it does not affect the coffee flavor of the original American coffee, and it can also add the refreshing feeling of the bubbles.

A friend wants to ask, doesn’t the bubble American style just have more bubbles, how delicious it can be! It's hard to describe these feelings in words, but when you taste a glass of "bubble water" and a glass of "bubbly water" at the same time, you can appreciate the difference. In terms of raw materials, the sparkling Americano coffee simply means replacing the water in the Americano coffee with sparkling water. The other production parameters are not much different from the iced Americano coffee. You can refer to the parameters of Front Street: 2 shots of espresso liquid (40g), 120ml of sparkling water, and 100g of ice cubes.

Of course, if you make your own sparkling Americano, you don’t want to make a cup of “pot water”, so it’s important to choose the right coffee beans. Front Street recommends choosing coffee beans with a more prominent flavor or fruity tones, so that the extracted espresso liquid will taste better when paired with sparkling water.

If you already have single-origin beans for hand brewing at home, you can also try using them for espresso. As long as the extraction parameters are correct, you can still extract good espresso. (In order to allow everyone to achieve coffee freedom, we have used Front Street Red Cherry, Front Street Strawberry Candy, Front Street Oiran, and Front Street Panama Geisha beans. They are all medium-light roasts and have good flavor performance when making American coffee without any sourness or astringency.)

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If you don’t have an espresso machine at home, don’t worry, you can also make high-concentration coffee liquid by hand. The parameters are somewhat different from those used for ordinary extraction. You can also refer to Front Street’s parameters:

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Amount of powder: 20g

Grinding degree: No. 20 screen pass rate 80%

Water temperature: 93 degrees

Extracted coffee liquid: 80ml

Inject 40ml of water into the first section and steam for 2 minutes, then inject 80ml of water into the second section and wait for the drip filtering to complete to obtain 80ml of coffee liquid.

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Although the sparkling Americano is very similar to the Americano, there is one difference, that is, the sparkling water contains a sufficient amount of carbon dioxide. If you pour the coffee directly into it as usual, you will probably see something like this:

The oil in the espresso comes into contact with the large amount of carbon dioxide coming out of the sparkling water, causing the oil to expand rapidly, and finally gushes out. Then the oil is unstable and rapidly disintegrates due to the influx of large amounts of carbon dioxide, forming this "pimple" shape.

In addition to being unsightly, a large amount of oil foam is produced, which tastes bitter and not pleasant to drink. Moreover, a large amount of carbon dioxide is lost from the sparkling water, making this cup of sparkling American style lose its soul. Therefore, the key to making a sparkling Americano is how to pour espresso. In this regard, Front Street summarized these two points for attention.

The first point is to scrape off the grease. The grease of espresso is the soul of espresso itself, but it is not important for Americano, and it is even more of a nightmare for sparkling water. Scraping off the grease can reduce the occurrence of many bubbles, at least there will no longer be that rich "pimple"-like foam.

The second point is that you need to pour the espresso slowly and gently. In fact, the principle is similar to the layering of making dirty coffee. If the pouring force is strong, the coffee liquid will rush to the bottom all of a sudden. Then in an instant, the bubbles will gush out of the cup at the same time, which will easily lead to rich foam.

The most ideal situation is to put a spoon in the mouth of the cup, and then pour espresso into the spoon to reduce the impact caused by the drop. The espresso slowly permeates into the sparkling water so that the foam produced is minimal.

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

Recommended fancy iced coffee｜How to make the same sparkling Americano coffee at home? How does Iced American Soda Coffee taste?

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