What is the difference between Brazilian coffee and American coffee?| How Much Does Brazilian Coffee Cost?

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American coffee, Americano.

American coffee is the most popular coffee shop coffee, after milk coffee.

If milk coffee lovers are mostly women, then American coffee can be regarded as a very neutral coffee, and the popularity of ta is basically the same between male and female guests.

The name American coffee comes from the war period and was born after World War II.

When the Americans ended the war with Europe, many troops came to southern Europe, but they could not drink espresso coffee, so they chose to dilute it with warm water before drinking it. Because they can only accept and drink diluted strength, such diluted drinking method is mainly the preference of American soldiers, so people give it the name American coffee.

Because Americans tend to make coffee more casually and simply, this method quickly became popular with American chains around the world. Later, American coffee can even be the general term for all black coffee, and black coffee made by drip filtration, French pressure and other appliances can be called American coffee.

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Americano| introduced

American coffee is simply coffee that suits American tastes. When Americans first came into contact with espresso coffee, they had difficulty adapting to the strong taste of espresso coffee. American consumers were accustomed to drip coffee. In order to obtain a similar strength of drip coffee, espresso coffee was diluted with water to a certain extent.

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Americano| flavor

Many people can't accept the strong stimulation of Espresso, but they can't resist the temptation of black coffee, so they choose American.

After diluted with water, the concentrated sweet, sour and bitter are diluted, becoming more likeable, and can drink more for a while, happy. A good cup of American-style coffee, not only bitter, there should be a little acid, with a little sweet, as well as coffee aroma, and lasting aftertaste.

Brazilian coffee flavor

The main cultivated variety of Brazilian coffee is yellow bourbon, which is characterized by a tree height of 2.8 meters and early maturity. At present, 17 of the 30 varieties have been commercially cultivated. Because of its susceptibility to coffee leaf rust, yellow bourbon requires more care than other varieties, and when grown at altitudes of 1000 meters or more, yellow bourbon usually exhibits excellent quality if the harvesting and handling process is good.

The sensory characteristics of yellow bourbon are very obvious in the cup, mainly its outstanding sweetness, significant aroma and very obvious citric acid. Ripe fruits and raisins are the main flavors of yellow bourbon.

Brazilian Coffee Prices

In 2017, in the Cup of Excellence competition, Brazilian yellow bourbon scored 92.33 points in the honey treatment category and sold at auction for an astonishing $131 per pound, 100 times the price of commercial coffee beans at the time. Because Brazil is such a big player in the global coffee market, anything that affects Brazilian coffee production has a corresponding impact on global coffee prices. Brazil's annual consumption of coffee per capita has caught up with that of the United States, and coffee shops are booming in major cities, but coffee prices are on par with those of better coffee shops in Europe and the United States, making it another symbol of Brazil's wealth gap.

Brazil's reputation for producing high-quality coffee is not high because of its emphasis on production.

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