Cuban Coffee Making Process

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The process of making Cuban Coffee

To brew Crystal Mountain Coffee, it is best to use a hand brew or American coffee maker, the water temperature is below 85 ℃, the match wind cooking method firepower is not too big, the time is not too long. When tasting coffee, because it is mellow, you can put more milk, but less sugar, usually two or three tablespoons (coffee cup spoon) is just right. Believe that its unique taste will leave a deep impression on you.

Cubans always add sugar before making coffee when they drink coffee. Because Cubans are convinced that the sugar soaked in coffee will be sweeter and the coffee soaked in sugar will taste better.

Coffee is a fragrant temptation, but it is sweet in Cuba. The practice of Cuban coffee is very simple, the composition seems to be no different from ordinary black coffee, but there is a small difference in steps. Grind the freshly roasted coffee beans moderately and put them in the funnel of the drip coffee machine. Then dig a small hole in the middle of the funnel. Add a layer of sugar to the pit and fill it up. Then make drip coffee according to the common method, and the final coffee will have Cuban flavor, more foam, and sweeter. The added sugar should be unrefined brown sugar.

The varieties of coffee in Cuba are mainly Arabica. The grading of raw coffee beans in Cuba is different from that of other countries in the world, from high to low: Crystal Mountain (Crystal Mountain), Extraturquino, Turquino, Altura, Montana, Cumbre, Serrano superior, Serrano corriente and Caracolillo (oval).

In the midday sun in the ancient city square of Havana, Cuba, it is cozy to have a cup of traditional Cuban coffee (caf é cubano) in the Cafe EI Escorial Caf é: a very small cup (about 3 cm in diameter and 5 cm high), espresso is only 1/3 high, with a butter biscuit that is not much bigger than a coin. The coffee smells very delicious and tastes very bitter, but the biscuits are super sweet, so it's no wonder that they are so matched, one bitter and one sweet taste the whole world.