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As a best-selling product in coffee shops, American coffee can be said to be number one!

One is that the production is fast, cost-effective and contains caffeine, so it is popular with workers; one is that most American coffee uses Italian coffee beans, so it is easy to stabilize the quality of the product; one is that the flavor of American coffee beans is often more balanced and is highly accepted by public consumers. One is because American coffee is black coffee, in the absence of milk and sugar / other ingredients, the right amount of intake can achieve the role of anti-eating and anti-greasy.

What is American coffee?

There are many friends who always think of American coffee when they hear black coffee. Although American coffee is a member of the black coffee family, it does not mean that there is only American coffee in the black coffee family. All coffee made from coffee beans and water without any ingredients or accessories can be called drinking coffee.

A cup of standard American coffee must be made of espresso mixed with water.

The English name of American coffee is Americano. According to the definition of Cambridge Dictionary: a type of coffee drink made by adding hot water to espresso coffee, adding hot water to espresso (espresso--) is Americano. In short, espresso diluted by water is American coffee.

Does American coffee originated in the United States?

American coffee originated in Italy. It is rumored that during World War II, American soldiers could not drink the choking and strong espresso in Italy, so they added the espresso extracted by pressurization to hot water and diluted it.

This is also one of the most convincing origins at present. After all, in an era when there are still requirements for the quality of coffee beans and the pursuit of coffee flavor, the taste of espresso is not satisfactory.

But at that time, Italian working people were in urgent need of a drink that could be made quickly and refreshed, which could stimulate their physical skills during the rest time. That's why a pressurized steam coffee machine is invented, which can quickly extract a small portion of coffee with a strong flavor.

American coffee bean recommendation

To make American coffee / espresso, Qianjie Coffee is recommended to mix beans specially for espresso. One of the reasons for recommending the blending of coffee beans is that the cost is lower, and the other is that the coffee beans used in the blending are complementary and can balance and stabilize the flavor of each cup of coffee beans. one is that most of the coffee beans are roasted above medium and deep, and it is not easy to produce acidity and thin coffee flavor after extraction.

At present, four kinds of Italian coffee beans are on sale in Qianjie.

"Qianjie Coffee-warm Sun blend Coffee beans": Ethiopian sun red cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduran sherry barrel coffee beans (70%), with strong wine aromas, sweet and sour vanilla cream, sweet and sour berries, and roasted nut flavor.

"Front Street Coffee-Fine blend of Coffee beans": Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%), with the flavor of nuts, dark chocolate and caramel.

"Front Street Coffee-Commercial blending of Coffee beans": Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee (60%), with the flavor of nuts, cocoa and caramel.

"Qianjie Coffee-basic blending of Coffee beans": Yunnan washed small coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%), with soft fruit acid, caramel and nut flavor.

Of course, you can also use coffee beans from a single producing area to extract espresso (SOE). But it should be noted that every single coffee is suitable for many cup test / hand / ice drop cold delicious single bean, extraction in the environment of very fine grinding and pressurization, it is easy to over-enlarge the flavor.

For example, Qianjie Coffee currently sells light roasted Ethiopian fruit Ding Ding coffee beans, which are extracted by drip / soak, and the coffee flavor shows bright citrus acid, white flower aroma and the sweetness of honey green tea. In the Italian coffee machine pressurized extraction, the coffee flavor will become sharp, thin, and easy to have a sense of astringency.

So if you want to make SOE, you can choose individual coffee beans tailor-made for SOE, or choose coffee beans that are moderately roasted.

The production of espresso

The soul of American coffee lies in the production of espresso. The performance of each coffee machine and bean grinder is different, so the production parameters of espresso do not have a standard answer, which needs to be adjusted according to the actual situation.

If you extract espresso for the first time, Qianjie Coffee recommends that you use the parameters as the intermediate value (20g of coffee powder to extract 40g of coffee liquid, time 25-30s), and then taste to determine whether the espresso / flavor is in the expected range, and then adjust the parameters.

The proportion of American coffee made

In the past, the production method of the street coffee shop was taken as an example. The sunflower warm sun mixed coffee beans used by the front street coffee shop were used as the beans for espresso. Every day, the barista had to debug according to the state of the beans. In order to highlight the taste of the Shirley barrel, 20 grams of coffee beans were selected and 40 grams of coffee liquid was extracted for 27 to 28 seconds.

Qianjie once determined the American-style ratio of water to water for this bean. After two rounds of range contraction, the above extraction method was used to make a comparison of three cups of coffee at 1:4, 1pur4.5 and 1:5, respectively. The final determination of the proportion of 1VR 4.5, in this ratio, can better highlight the warm sun blend of wine and vanilla, chocolate flavor, but also without losing the taste.

But this proportion is only suitable for "Qianjie sunflower sunflower with coffee beans", the use of Qianjie coffee other series of Italian coffee beans is not suitable, will be relatively strong, the extraction parameters of espresso also need to be adjusted. When the proportion of American coffee is difficult to handle, it is recommended to start from 1:5, if the coffee is strong, increase the proportion of water, if light, reduce the proportion of water.

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