Coffee English super popular science

Coffee has been more and more deeply integrated into Chinese life, especially for the younger generation.

However, is everyone aware of the various categories of coffee? What do lattes, mochas and cappuccinos refer to respectively?

Today, British University will come to popularize this question ~ by the way, popularize the English words related to coffee ~

1. Espresso espresso

[e-mail / 39 / spres / spres]

Also known as "espresso", "espresso", "Italian eight-fold concentration"

Is the coffee essence (coffee essence) extracted by the espresso machine (espresso machine), each serving is a very small cup, very bitter.

Its quantifier is generally not cup, but shot.

Nowadays, many coffee shops use espresso as the coffee base, and then mix other kinds of coffee.

2. Americano American Coffee

[fan, meri' Kanying]

1 to 2 points of espresso (1-2 shots of espresso) is diluted with water (dilute) and becomes American coffee.

It's actually black coffee (black coffee).

It is said that the name americano was first used by the Italians to run on Americans, "do you want water to drink coffee?"

3. Black Coffee black coffee

Therefore, now in order to distinguish it from American coffee, the coffee brewed directly with coffee beans and coffee powder is called black coffee.

4. Latte latte

[& # 39late]

Add some milk to the espresso and it becomes a latte.

The full name should be "coffee latte" (coffee latte), because latte means "milk" in Italian.

So,

When many people go to Starbucks for the first time, they think that "black tea latte" is black tea-flavored coffee, but when they order it, they find it is a cup of milk tea.

It is said that there is also a kind of milk coffee that is very similar to a latte, called mellow white or plain white coffee (flat white). Basically, it is to add less milk and better understand the original flavor of the coffee.

5. Au Lait O'Lei

[Yongu & # 39Shi le]

A kind of coffee from France. Ole, like a latte, is a kind of coffee with milk. However, it is not made of Italian coffee, but with ordinary black coffee with milk, so the taste is not so strong.

Like a latte, au lait is an acronym.

The full name is coffee au lait (Ole Coffee)

Au lait means "and milk" in French.

6. Coffee Mocha/Mocha mocha / mocha

[& # 39th m / k]

In espresso.

Add chocolate syrup (chocolate syrup) and milk, plus milk (milk foam) and chocolate chips (chocolate chips) to make mocha coffee.