What is Black Coffee? What's the difference between espresso and American coffee?

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I wonder if my friend has ever experienced such an experience. When you enter a boutique cafe and want to order "a cup of black coffee", the barista asks you, "would you like American coffee or hand-brewed coffee?"

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I just want a cup of black coffee? What is American coffee and hand-made coffee?

What is American coffee?

American coffee is a kind of Italian coffee, usually choose medium to deep roasted coffee beans, through the pressure of the Italian coffee machine to let the hot water through the ground coffee powder, extract Espresso. Normally, a cup of American coffee is made from one or two servings of Espresso and diluted with hot water.

So what is hand-brewed coffee?

Usually a single product of coffee beans is used as the raw material, and the roasting degree of coffee beans varies from light roasting to medium roasting to deep roasting. Most hand-brewed coffee is brewed in a filter cup. First, the coffee beans are ground into powder and then put into filter paper. After slowly injecting hot water, the coffee liquid extracted through the filter paper and filter cup drips slowly down, and a cup of hand-brewed coffee is finished.

As hand-brewed coffee usually wants to show the regional flavor characteristics of individual coffee beans, it is recommended that there is no sugar and no milk, which is also a kind of black coffee.

But if you want to make a good cup of hand-made coffee, the key lies in grinding, water temperature, the ratio of coffee to water and so on. There will be more exquisite than machine making.

Next, let the editor explain the difference between the two kinds of coffee.

American Coffee | Americano

American coffee is based on Espresso,Espresso "espresso", which originated in Italy and is mostly extracted from espresso by an Italian coffee machine.

In the production process, the ground coffee powder is put directly into the powder bowl, the cloth coffee powder reaches the edge of the cup, then the coffee cake is pressed into a coffee cake by a powder press, and the handle is mounted on the Italian coffee machine. When the extraction begins, the coffee cake will be subjected to the pressure of about 9Par atmosphere under the pressure of the machine. It will be extracted in a short period of 20-30 seconds, releasing a small amount of coffee liquid, thick taste, extracted espresso. American coffee can be diluted with hot water or ice water in proportion.

Hand-made coffee | Pour over coffee

Before you want to make a cup of coffee, you need to prepare utensils, filter cups, pots, and filter paper. Bean cans, bean spoons, bean grinders. Hot kettle, hand flushing kettle.

First, put the filter paper into the filter cup, pour into the ground coffee powder and gently pat the coffee powder through the outside of the filter cup, then pour hot water into the filter paper containing coffee powder with a kettle to keep the water supply and cut off stably. When the hot water is in full contact with the coffee powder, extract the coffee substance and filter out a cup of delicious hand-brewed coffee.

What is the difference between American style and hand flushing?

Espresso is ground into a finer powder than hand-brewed coffee, which is brewed under high pressure in an espresso machine and can dissolve more coffee substances and filter out higher concentrations of coffee than other ways of making coffee.

In terms of brewing time, the extraction speed of Italian coffee machine is extremely fast: an average of 30 seconds can produce a cup of coffee, the steps are simple, making a set of standard specifications is easy to learn, and it has become the preferred brewing method for almost all chain coffee chains. Of course, "Bad Street" does not mean mediocre quality, the extraction of Italian coffee also needs to adjust the fixed brewing parameters regularly according to the state of coffee beans to better show the flavor of coffee beans.

The grinding particles of hand-made coffee are thicker, and the whole brewing process takes about 3 to 4 minutes, paying attention to skills and techniques, from the degree of grinding of coffee beans, water temperature, water quality, water flow, extraction time, and even the technique and timing of water injection, the change of each small factor, will have an impact on the final flavor.

Compared with the Italian concentrated machine, it can use fixed parameters to provide stable coffee of the same quality, while hand-brewed coffee needs to master more details to fully show the level and flavor of each cup of coffee.

Science has been popularized so much, let's experiment and compare it finally. Use the same bean to make American coffee or hand-brewed coffee and see which tastes better!

Light baking: sun Yega red cherries

Moderate baking: Huaguo Mountain, Yunnan

Deep baking: Jamaica Blue Mountains

Whether it is light-baked red cherries, medium-baked flowers and fruit mountains or deep-baked blue mountains, there is an obvious improvement in sweetness after being made into American style, and the flavor will be more balanced, but the taste is thin, the flavor is monotonous and the level is insufficient. The black coffee brewed from hand-brewed coffee has a more distinct personality, the flavor and level changes are more diverse, and the taste will be relatively mellow. As for which one tastes better? Then it depends on personal preference.