Is iced American coffee sour and bitter? How can I make iced American coffee? What does a cup of iced American coffee imply?

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Not long ago, there was such a stalk on Douyin: "have an iced American coffee." The stem means to express that although American coffee tastes bitter, it always makes people have the idea of drinking it a second time, because it will not be bitter after it has been bitter. The moral: whether it's things / love / relationships, there is no good or bad, only preference, not everyone likes it, but the person you like is very high.

For this reason, after watching this stem, many friends went to the coffee shop to buy a cup of iced American coffee and felt the "philosophy" in it. Result! "Ice American coffee tastes sour. What's going on?"

I believe that many friends have tasted Starbucks iced American coffee, the flavor is mellow, is a very bitter coffee. But the iced American coffee drunk in a boutique cafe is actually sour and sweet. Could it be that something has been added?

No ~ American coffee tastes citrus / berry sour (as long as it's not that kind of rotten acid / green acidity), it's normal. Different coffee shops will use different beans to extract espresso. Some will use light-baked coffee beans, which will be more sour in taste; others will use sour coffee beans in producing areas with obvious sour taste and coffee beans with high alcohol thickness to mix them with soft acidity in taste.

The lighter the roasted coffee beans, the more sour, but the taste will also be relatively thin. In order to stabilize the products of all stores, Starbucks will roast espresso beans very deep (deep to the state of oil). One is to make every cup of espresso have a mellow and solid taste, and the other is to extend the flavor shelf life of coffee beans.

Choosing deep-roasted coffee beans to make espresso can further ensure the taste of the coffee, but it will also give up the rich level of coffee, so American coffee will be cool. On the other hand, boutique coffee shops will pay more attention to the coffee flavor and taste, and may use medium-to-deep-roasted beans to make iced American coffee, so the taste will show a sweet and sour feeling.

For example, the daily products of the Qianjie coffee shop will use a medium-deep roasted sunflower with sun Yega Shirley coffee beans to match the coffee beans. Because of the use of African coffee beans (characterized by bright acidity), even after medium and deep roasting, the extracted coffee liquid will show soft berry acidity, coupled with the unique aroma of Shirley coffee beans, the coffee made from this coffee bean always shows obvious fermented aroma, smooth vanilla cream, soft sweet and sour berries and caramel-like flavor.

Iced American coffee is sour or bitter? In fact, everyone likes things are different, some people like sweet and sour, some people like bitter, so whether it is sour or bitter, this question varies from person to person. Just like the stem, there is no good or bad, only preference ~