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American coffee is a coffee drink that many people like to drink. But there are also many coffee lovers who worry that drinking coffee will lead to addiction and excessive caffeine intake, so they sometimes struggle with whether they should drink it or not. Therefore, in this article Qianjie is going to popularize the knowledge of American coffee for everyone.

What is American coffee?

"American coffee" (English: Americano, Italian: Caff è Americano) is traditionally black coffee made from a drip coffee pot, because it usually takes a relatively long time to extract (about four or five minutes), so it contains more caffeine. 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.

But now the American coffee in the cafe is a little different from the traditional definition. American coffee now has a different way. American coffee is based on espresso "espresso" and mixed with a lot of water to make a cup of essential drink on the menu of every cafe.

The emergence of American coffee is actually different from the type of coffee drunk by Europeans. In Europe, high-concentration coffee is generally preferred, while in the United States, very light coffee is preferred. So when Italians immigrate to the United States to open cafes, they need to make coffee that caters to Americans. Italian cafes use espresso extracted by espresso machines. Originally in Seattle, coffee shops diluted espresso with water into light coffee, which became the blueprint for American coffee sold in cafes today.

How much caffeine is in American coffee?

The amount of caffeine depends not only on the type of coffee drink, but also on the coffee beans and the way they are extracted. For example, Arabica coffee beans have less caffeine, about 0.9-1.4%, and robusta coffee beans have more caffeine, about 3.2-4%. So American coffee made from robusta beans is more caffeinated than Arabica beans.

The second is to look at the mode of extraction, caffeine will be released more with the extension of extraction time, so Italian coffee with extraction time of only about 30 seconds has a lower caffeine content than many coffees, and the highest caffeine content is ice drop coffee. because the extraction time is as high as 8 hours.

The next step is to look at the caffeine content of a cup of American coffee. Qianjie believes that the amount of caffeine in American coffee should not be judged by the total cup, but by the amount of espresso. For example, a cup of 300ml American coffee contains 60ml espresso and 240ml water, and another 500ml American coffee contains 30ml espresso and 470ml water. Although 500ml has more American coffee than 300ml, it actually depends on the amount of caffeine in espresso. From this example, 300ml's American coffee is more caffeinated than 500ml's American coffee.

The caffeine content of a normal shot American coffee is about 130mg, according to the usual daily intake of no more than 400mg, you can drink up to 3 cups a day.

How do you make American coffee?

American coffee can be said to be the simplest espresso, because American coffee consists of only two parts, espresso and water, while iced American coffee has ice cubes. But don't relax because American coffee is the easiest part and the most technologically challenging part. American coffee is often the best test of a barista's espresso technique.

Choose coffee beans, generally choose Italian coffee beans to make American coffee, for example, Qianjie stores use sunflower warm sun to mix coffee beans, this is Qianjie's own mix, made by Honduran Shirley Coffee and Yega Shirley red cherries, flavors are vanilla cream, sherry, chocolate, caramel.

American coffee is easy to make, only water and espresso, so only need to pour espresso into the water. The espresso part needs to be extracted according to the characteristics of beans, and different beans have different extraction parameters.

The sunflower sunflower used in the street used to mix coffee beans as an example, the baristas had to adjust according to the state of the beans every day. In order to highlight the taste of the Shirley barrel, they chose 20 grams of coffee beans and extracted 40 grams of coffee liquid for 27 to 28 seconds.

When making hot American coffee, you need to preheat the cup with hot water, then pour in hot water, and finally pour in the extracted espresso. The proportion of American coffee is usually between 1:6 and 1:8, while Qianjie coffee has been debugged many times. Chose the ratio of 1:6, that is, 40g of coffee liquid mixed with 240g of hot water.

In the same way, when making iced American coffee, precool the cup with ice cubes, then pour in water, and finally pour in espresso. Because of the ice, Qianjie coffee ice American coffee to choose the proportion of 1:7, 40g of coffee liquid mixed with 280g of ice water mixture, of which 180g of ice and 100g of water.

Whether it's iced American coffee or hot American coffee, as long as the amount of espresso remains the same, the caffeine will not change. Therefore, whether it is iced American coffee or hot American coffee, Qianjie recommends no more than 3 cups a day.

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