The difference between hand-brewed coffee and American coffee is hand-brewed coffee better than coffee maker? How to pronounce coffee by hand in English

Recently, I saw a fan message asking what would be the difference between using the same coffee beans to make hand-brewed coffee and making American coffee. The front street of this article will answer this question. Before the answer begins, we should first distinguish the difference between hand-brewed coffee and American coffee.

Hand-brewed coffee is pour over (manual water injection) / hand drip (manual dripping filtration), which is a way of brewing water through the layer of coffee powder by natural gravity. American coffee, known as Americano (American Coffee), is a method of diluting espresso with water used by American soldiers. It was later ridiculed by Italians as American coffee, which is one of the common types of coffee.

What is hand-made coffee?

Hand-brewed coffee is a kind of coffee which uses the coffee filter cup as the medium, grind the fresh coffee beans into a suitable thickness, and then extract the soluble substances of coffee by injecting water at the right temperature. With different filter cups / different grindness, water temperature and water injection techniques, the same coffee bean will have different flavor and taste.

Because the filter cup is used as the support, the water is injected into the coffee powder to extract the substance and then drips down through the filter paper to share the pot. There is no need for any pressure during the extraction, so the hand-brewed coffee belongs to the dripping filter coffee.

What is American coffee?

Authentic American coffee requires the use of an Italian espresso machine to extract espresso and then dilute it with the right amount of water. The American coffee machine on the market is actually a dripping coffee machine, which extracts the soluble substance from the coffee powder by injecting water, and then drops it into the pot through filter paper / screen.

Espresso is different from hand-brewed coffee in that it injects hot water into the extremely fine and compact powder layer through the pressure of 9bar, and the coffee liquid with extremely high extraction concentration is extracted quickly (20-30 seconds) with the powder-to-liquid ratio at 1:2. When this cup of coffee with extremely high concentration is mixed with the right amount of water, it can be transformed into a familiar American coffee. Because the production process requires pressure, American coffee belongs to pressurized extraction coffee.

Use the same coffee bean to make handmade and American coffee

What is the difference in flavor and taste?

This time, Qianjie used Huakui 5.0 coffee beans from the Sidamo producing area of Ethiopia as the cooking object, because Qianjie tested the beans in the cup to feel the obvious aroma of flowers and fruits, the acid quality will not be too exciting, and the sweetness is good.

# brewing parameters of hand-made coffee

Hario 01 filter cup, medium and fine grinding (the pass rate of Chinese standard No. 20 sieve is about 78%), water temperature is 90 ℃, coffee powder is 15g, the ratio of powder to water is 1:15. Three-stage extraction method water injection: first inject 30 grams of water for steaming for 30 seconds. Then small flow circle water injection to 125g, water level drop is about to expose the powder bed, continue water injection to 225g to stop water injection, when the water level drop is about to expose the powder bed, remove the filter cup, (steaming starts timing) the extraction time is 2mm 39 / 08 ".

The flavor of Huakui 5.0 coffee extracted by hand is as follows: the aroma of flowers, the sour and sweet feelings of berries, citrus and plums, mango juice, honey and the sweetness of black tea.

Extraction parameters of espresso #

Pegasus E98 espresso machine, ek43s grinder 0.1grind degree, powder / water ratio 1:2, double handle, powder quantity 20g, extract 40g coffee liquid, time 24 seconds.

The flavor of espresso extracted Sakui 5.0 coffee is: medium high acidity, medium sweetness, low bitterness, smooth bitterness, citrus acidity in the mouth, followed by berry aroma, and dark berry with caramel in finish.

Judging from the flavor performance of espresso, the espresso extracted from this coffee bean should not be too high to make American coffee, so before and after Qianjie was diluted with different ratios of coffee to water, and finally determined that 1jelly 6.5 (40g coffee liquid mixed with 260g 86 ℃ hot water).

The flavor of Huakui 5.0 American coffee is characterized by soft berry acidity, with slight tropical fruit, taste similar to fruit juice, finish with cream and caramel.

Small summary

The coffee extracted from hand-brewed coffee is more layered than American coffee, and the flavor will be more layered. Due to the filtration of filter paper, the taste of coffee is more clean and refreshing. On the other hand, American coffee has the fat of espresso, so it shows a full taste of coffee, which is mellow and solid than hand-brewed coffee as a whole.

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