How to break up the taste of American coffee and how to make black coffee by hand

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Coffee is life, and life is also like coffee. A cup of authentic black coffee, although bitter with astringent, but endless aftertaste. This is like life brings us understanding and growth, although we often say "life is so hard", but good night will still encourage ourselves to "tomorrow will be better".

Hand-made coffee

Although the equipment of hand-brewing coffee is simple, but the operation which looks easy and highly similar actually contains the possibility of various tastes, even the coffee brewed by the same person every time is not exactly the same taste.

Hand coffee, no external interference, through the filter paper filter extraction of coffee, can better show the natural taste, coffee tastes more palatable, more layered.

A perfect cup of hand-brewed coffee requires not only a skilled brewing technique, but also a delicate grasp of various factors, such as the variety of coffee, the amount of coffee beans, the degree of grinding, water temperature, water quality, water flow, extraction time, the technique and timing of water injection, and even the preferences of drinkers, to adjust the brewing mode, so that coffee always presents a perfect balance of sweet, sour, bitter, mellow and fragrant in front of people.

Hand-brewed coffee is neither American nor Italian.

Espresso

Espresso (Italian espresso, also known as espresso) is essentially a filtration method that uses a precision metal filter. Compared with gravity filtration, the biggest difference is pressure. The espresso machine pushes high-pressure water through the coffee pressed powder, that is, even though the coffee powder itself is extremely fine, it still ensures moderate percolation and balanced extraction. What does that mean?

The smaller the coffee powder is, the more its surface area increases exponentially, so one of the advantages of ultra-fine powder is that the extraction speed is very fast. Not only faster, but also of better quality. High pressure can squeeze water into the inner cell wall of coffee powder, and the effects of extracting emulsified oil and dissolving sugars cannot be done by gravity alone. Espresso symbolizes complex and condensed coffee, and no other brewing method can show such mellow thickness and texture.

Cafe Americano

With regard to the origin of American coffee, there is a saying that during World War II, American soldiers were not used to espresso in Italy, so Italian baristas added hot water to espresso. Unexpectedly, the coffee made in this way was very popular with American soldiers, and the way of heating water for espresso was called "Americano" by the Italians. With the spread of espresso around the world, American coffee has spread!

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