If you accidentally make the American style, it becomes long black, so Long black and American

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After being exposed to coffee for such a long time, you must know the difference between many different coffee drinks, and you may have heard of Long Black. What is the difference between this coffee, which is always confused with American coffee, except that the ingredients and appearance are exactly the same as American coffee?

A little history of long black

It is true that Long Black comes from American coffee style coffee, but it makes Italians feel more like it. Historically, Italians have created two kinds of coffee, one is Italian concentrate, the other is cappuccino.

So when coffee-loving Americans visit Italy to order a large cup of black coffee, it is too strange for Italian baristas because they are only used to making a small cup of espresso as black coffee. Over time, to please American tourists, they adjusted their Italian concentrate and used it as a base to make larger cups of black coffee.

Americans are used to drinking coffee extracted by filter, while espresso makes them feel that the coffee is too strong. Italian baristas quickly adapted and reduced the intensity of coffee, adding a cup of espresso to a cappuccino cup filled with hot water, and Long Black was born.

A modern version of Long Black

Although there are some changes in how to make a cup of long black coffee, the most common practice now is to place the cup directly under the handle of the coffee concentrate ready to be extracted after the hot water has been prepared in the cup, allowing the newly extracted coffee liquid to flow directly into the cup rather than adding it to the hot water after extraction. This is the best way to produce a cup of sweet long black, and can retain the beautiful crema, and can avoid paste.

However, different cafes use different concentrated extraction parameters in order to show the best flavor of beans. Another way is to use Lungo to do, using the extraction of a longer time to concentrate, so that the taste is more round, mellow thickness, so that the flavor is more comprehensive. You can also use Ristretto, which differs in that it has a bolder, cleaner sweetness, stronger, lower acidity flavor.

The difference between American coffee and long black

In fact, Long Black and Americano are very similar, both add espresso + hot water, but there is a difference in the order of production. Americano is extracted and concentrated first, and then hot water is added, while Long Black is just the opposite, that is, hot water is prepared first and then concentrated.

Although they are all black coffee, the taste and appearance of Long Black coffee will be more or less different. The surface of Americano coffee will be dark brown, with a little tiger spot coffee oil, which is rich and mellow, while the fat on the surface of Americano is milky white and tastes refreshing.

How to make it?

Finally, an extraction parameter is presented for your reference.

Because the coffee extracted by using this parameter may not always show the best taste for coffee beans with different schemes and roasting degrees, so it is just for your reference:

Pour 7 minutes of hot water into a normal cup at a temperature of about 70 degrees.

Grind 20g coffee powder and extract 40g coffee liquid for about 27 seconds

Add the coffee to hot water or add the extracted concentrate directly to the cup.

A stronger cup of Long Black is finished.

There are unlimited possibilities for black coffee. Long Black and Americano have different styles and can make many different extraction attempts until you find the cup of black coffee you love.