How do you drink American coffee at Starbucks? is American coffee high in calories?

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Espresso Espresso:

With high temperature and high pressure hot water, quickly force out the taste of coffee, become an espresso. According to Starbucks's nutrition form, a cup of single shot espresso is only 5 calories, and caffeine has 75mg, which is very "strong" because it doesn't add any milk.

American Coffee Americano:

Americano is an Espresso that adds a lot of hot water to make it lighter and easier to enter. A cup of single shot American coffee is also only 5 calories, caffeine has 75mg.

Do you know how many kinds of American coffee there are? What's the difference between Americano and Long Black?

American coffee is easy to say, but hard to say! It's just espresso with water, iced American coffee with ice water, hot American hot water--

however! There are two ways to subdivide it: add water first or add water later.

The two different production methods are:

Americano and Long Black

One is to add water first and then Espresso--Americano.

One is to add Espresso first and then water-Long Black

They all have the same ratio of coffee to water (1). Is there any difference in flavor? Yes, there are different reasons why the two methods have different degrees of retention of grease (crema) on the surface of Espresso.

Americano: the aroma is weak and not obvious, the bitter taste is heavy, and the flavor change is not obvious after cooling.

Long Black: the aroma is strong and rich, the bitter taste is weak, and the flavor is light after cooling.

Recommended parameters of Qianjie espresso:

Single head: 14 grams of powder extraction for 25 seconds to produce 21 grams of coffee liquid

Double head: 21 grams of powder extract for 25 minutes and 30 seconds to produce 40 grams of coffee liquid.