Is black coffee American black coffee? Taste difference between American Black Coffee and LongBlack

What's the taste of American coffee? The answer is coming out: the taste of American coffee comes from coffee beans.

American coffee is easy to make, convenient and fast, free and casual. Compared with Italian coffee, American coffee mouth is more refreshing and can restore the original taste of coffee beans.

So American coffee is basically the "standard" in every cafe.

The American coffee in some shops is sweet and delicious, while others are bitter and hard to swallow. Why? What makes such a big difference? Qianjie believes that there are two major factors:

1 / quality of coffee beans

2 / extraction level of baristas

American coffee is composed of espresso and water, the water is colorless and tasteless, only plays a dilution role, the taste depends on espresso, while the flavor of espresso mainly depends on coffee beans and extraction.

Since the taste of American coffee depends on the beans extracted from espresso, a good cup of American coffee should be balanced and mellow, free of water, bitterness, acidity and so on.

PS: when we get bitter when we drink American coffee, we should think about whether it is because espresso is overextracted. Sharp acid is that espresso is not extracted enough, and the water feeling is mixed with too much water.

What kind of American coffee do you have?

We have learned that there are only two ingredients in American coffee, espresso and water, so there are two more mainstream practices:

1 / add water to espresso

2 / pour the extracted espresso into the water.

The former is called Americano, while the latter is called long black.

American coffee has only espresso and water, which can restore the taste of coffee, which is not as mellow as espresso, nor as unacceptable as espresso.

The difference between Americano and longblack

American coffee is first extracted from espresso and then diluted with water. The ratio of espresso to water is 1: 5: 1: 8. When mixed with water, the oil of espresso is washed away, and the concentration of each sip is similar from the first sip to the last sip.

Longblack first adds water to the cup and then pours in the extracted espresso so that the espresso oil is retained, with an espresso-to-water ratio of 1:3. Because the density of espresso is different from that of water, the richness of a cup of coffee changes gradually without stirring, so longblack is the most full-bodied and mellow when drinking the first sip, and it also has a smooth taste brought by grease, and the flavor behind it will be clearer and cleaner.

Different flavors of American Coffee and Long black

In the shop of Qianjie Coffee, the daily extraction of espresso is made of sunflower warm sun and coffee beans. The extraction parameters are 20g powder, 40g coffee liquid and 28 seconds. The flavor of espresso is characterized by the aroma of sherry wine, soft berry acidity, vanilla creamy taste and hazelnut chocolate finish.

Make hot American coffee in the ratio of 1:6 coffee to water

Its flavor and taste: it has obvious and active sherry aroma, no obvious acidity of berries, hazelnut and vanilla chocolate finish.

Long Black is made with the ratio of coffee and water at 1:3

Taste: smooth and creamy in the mouth with strong sherry aromas, clear caramel and chocolate finish, full-bodied on the palate and clean in the back.

On the other hand, Qianjie Coffee shops use double espresso when making espresso.

It is also important to choose a suitable spaghetti bean. Blended coffee, also known as mixed coffee, is to mix a variety of individual coffee beans together, so as to give full play to the strengths of various individual coffee beans, blended beans from different areas of coffee beans mixed to make a more balanced taste.

For example, if a kind of coffee bean tastes smooth but lacks aroma, another kind of rich aroma bean can be added to complement or strengthen the taste of individual coffee beans, so as to create a richer new taste of Italian coffee.

The front street uses Pegasus E98 espresso machine, extraction parameters

Pressure: 9 bar ±2

Temperature: 90.5 ~ 96 °C

Time: 20: 30 sec

Ratio of powder to water: 1. 7: 1. 1: 2.

Powder content: 12g (single espresso) 20g (double espresso)

Extraction concentration: 20ml (single part) 40ml (double part)

Next, Qianjie Coffee will take you to learn more about some Italian coffee beans in our store.

Qianjie Coffee believes that before blending coffee beans, we must first know the flavor of different varieties of coffee in the world, and beans have different characteristics according to their origin. Because different coffee beans have different personalities because of different varieties and producing areas, there are subtle differences in sour, bitter, sweet, aroma, mellow thickness and other flavors. Single coffee beans tend to show the unique characteristics of a certain kind of coffee.

The advantage of cooked spelling is that after baking, it can complement each other according to the flavor performance of coffee beans, and fine-tune the proportion weight of coffee beans according to the actual situation, showing a stable coffee flavor.

Detailed introduction of the blending scheme of Italian coffee beans (including specific formula)

What are blended coffee beans? According to the type of coffee, the prepared Italian coffee beans will have different characteristics in taste and flavor. The blending of coffee beans is a mixture of coffee beans from different places. What is the purpose of the match? One is to form a stable flavor, and the other is to produce a flavor that is not found in a single place of origin. Qianjie Coffee currently sells several Italian coffee beans, which are basic, boutique, commercial and sunny coffee beans.

1 / basic blending of Italian coffee beans

Flavor: creamy nut chocolate

Recipe: 60% Brazilian coffee beans, 40% Yunnan coffee beans

The basic coffee beans of Qianjie Coffee have high performance-to-price ratio. Qianjie coffee chooses Brazilian coffee beans with balanced taste, and on this basis, Yunnan coffee beans with weaker flavor than Brazilian coffee beans are mixed. Showing the most popular taste and flavor, whether you are in contact with coffee for the first time, or serious coffee lovers, you can easily accept this Italian coffee bean.

This mixed coffee beans in front of the street coffee uses medium-deep roasting. When making espresso, there will be a slightly sour, sweet, nutty taste, the overall feeling of peace, not too exciting. The fat is medium and can meet the daily requirements of lattes produced by most stores.

As mentioned above, Qianjie Coffee's boutique espresso beans are very stable and high-quality Italian coffee beans, which are very suitable for some independent cafes as daily products. The basic Italian coffee beans of Qianjie Coffee is the second cost-effective choice provided by Qianjie Coffee.

The operation of coffee shops is inseparable from cost. While keeping costs as low as possible, every operator is looking forward to providing stable coffee products. Qianjie Coffee is a basic coffee bean with a high performance-to-price ratio. Brazilian coffee beans and Yunnan coffee beans are selected for blending. Coffee beans from Yunnan and Brazil tend to be nuts and other flavors, and Brazilian coffee beans give this basic Italian coffee bean a more solid taste and rich oil.

2 / Commercial blending of Italian coffee beans

Flavor: sweet and mellow nuts with milk

Formula: 60% Brazilian coffee beans, 30% Colombian coffee beans, 10% Robusta

This blend has rich grease and taste and caramel sweetness, with nutty and cocoa, dark chocolate flavor, sweet and sour balance, a little bittersweet, lingering finish. Add a small amount of Robusta coffee beans to increase the richness of the oil, because of the small amount, it will not change too much flavor.

Qianjie named this blended bean "Commercial blended Coffee Bean" because it has a good performance in both American and milk coffee, coupled with the advantage of price, it is very suitable for commercial cafes to use Italian concentrated oil. It tastes smooth and bitter, and the texture is very mellow.

3 / warm sun blended coffee beans

Flavor: black cocoa citrus fermented wine

Recipe: 60% Ethiopian sun red cherry coffee beans, 40% Honduran sherry coffee beans

In addition to boutique blending and basic blending, Qianjie Coffee offers a more unique blend of coffee beans. The roaster of Qianjie Coffee mixes Honduran Shirley barrel coffee beans and Sun Yejafei red cherry plan coffee beans, and reformulates the roasting curve separately. The ratio of the two coffee beans is 6:4, which is re-presented as a blended coffee bean. It is named "warm Sun matching".

With the gradual development of boutique coffee, baristas of Qianjie Coffee found in store operation that many customers are no longer satisfied with the stability brought by blending with boutique coffee, and Qianjie Coffee is rethinking. Maybe it's time to bring more fresh blends to enliven the store's production.

In 2019, after many debugging, this sunny coffee bean finally appeared on the bean list of Qianjie coffee, and replaced the store's boutique mix with warm sun coffee beans. The baristas of Qianjie Coffee believe that these three blended coffee beans are the choice of pursuing stability, the basic blending is the choice of high performance-to-price ratio, and the warm sun blending is out of the choice of flavor, the goals of the three are different, and the suitable guests are naturally different.

The unique flavor of the warm sun blend comes from its Honduran sherry barrel coffee beans. after partial washing, the coffee fruit is put into the sherry barrel for low-temperature fermentation and finally dried. This treatment gives Shirley coffee beans a distinct aroma of wine, while the roaster of Qianjie Coffee mixes 40% of the sun Yega Sherfield coffee beans to provide more acidity to the warm sun coffee beans and increase the layering of the whole beans.

4 / boutique matching of Italian coffee beans

Flavor: sweet and mellow nuts with milk

Recipe: 70% Brazilian coffee beans, 30% Colombian coffee beans

This boutique Italian coffee bean will be the first choice for guests who do not like excessive taste or individual coffee, but pursue the quality of coffee. This blended Qianjie coffee is roasted in medium depth. With balanced taste of Brazilian coffee beans, with soft acidity, nuts back to sweet Colombian coffee beans, classic flavor.

This kind of mixed beans is also used in our own store. I've been using it since I opened the store for about half a year. When discussing this mixed bean, we hope to use American beans as the main body to enhance the nut, sweet taste and minimize the bitter taste.

What is American coffee?

American coffee originated during World War II, when the US military was not used to drinking extremely strong espresso in Europe, so it was diluted with water. Therefore, the essence of American coffee is to dilute the concentration of coffee to the concentration suitable for Americans to drink at that time.

Later, the Italians immigrated to the United States, and Italian cafes sprang up in the United States, which carried forward the American coffee based on espresso, and expressed the view of diluted espresso in the order of pouring coffee first and then water. Until now, the practice of American coffee is not too particular about the order, except to retain the difference between grease and dissipated grease.

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