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Would you like a cup of American coffee? "I just want a cup of American coffee." I always hear these familiar lines every time I watch South Korean TV dramas. As one of the cost-effective coffee that can pick up meals quickly, American coffee can be said to be one of the indispensable products in all coffee shops. Why do people like American coffee so much? In this article, follow Qianjie Coffee to learn about American coffee.

The Origin of American Coffee

American coffee, as one of the mainstream of the coffee industry, has been adhering to the taste of light coffee. American coffee was born during World War II, when American soldiers came to Italy. Because they were not accustomed to drinking espresso coffee there, they would dilute it with water and taste it again, because it was the only concentration they could accept. So Italians named the diluted espresso American Coffee, which is also a member of the black coffee family.

The taste of American coffee

In general, a cup of American coffee is made by blending two (about 40ml) espresso with hot water. So both the appearance and the taste will be relatively light. The taste of American coffee depends on the flavor of the beans and the process of coffee extraction. Qianjie Coffee believes that good American coffee should be balanced and full-bodied, bitter and sweet, and some will have a slightly sour or other unique flavor of coffee beans.

If a cup of American coffee is bitter and has a stuck throat after drinking it, it may be that the coffee beans used are not properly roasted / espresso is not properly extracted.

How do you make American coffee?

American coffee can be said to be the simplest espresso, because American coffee consists of only two parts, espresso and water, while iced American coffee has ice cubes. But don't relax because American coffee is the easiest part and the most technologically challenging part. American coffee is often the best test of a barista's espresso technique.

All the espresso products in Qianjie Coffee Store use a "sunflower sunflower blend coffee bean" made of 30% Ethiopian sun Yega Shirley coffee beans and 70% Honduran sherry coffee beans.

Before the daily official business production, the baristas have to debug according to the state of the beans, in order to highlight the unique aroma of this blend of coffee beans. Usually Qianjie Coffee will use 19.5-20 grams of coffee beans and extract 35-40 grams of coffee liquid for 27 to 35 seconds.

The extraction parameters of espresso need to be adjusted according to different coffee machines, grinders and coffee beans. The previous Street Coffee provides a reference data for the initial extraction of espresso: 40g of liquid coffee was extracted with 20g powder at 1:2 & 9bar pressure for 25-30 seconds. According to the flavor performance of the coffee after the actual extraction, the coffee was adjusted accordingly.

The ratio of American coffee to water

Qianjie coffee in the production of hot American coffee, you need to preheat the cup with hot water, and then pour hot water, and finally pour the extracted espresso. The proportion of American coffee is usually between 1:6 and 1:8, while Qianjie coffee has been debugged many times. Chose the ratio of 1:6, that is, 40g of coffee liquid mixed with 240g of hot water.

Ice American coffee choose the proportion of 1:7, 40g of coffee liquid mixed with 280g of ice water mixture, of which 180g ice and 100g water.

But this dilution ratio is that Qianjie coffee is diluted in different proportions to select the appropriate American coffee dilution ratio of Qianjie coffee espresso. You don't need to make a full reference. In the end, you need to decide the amount of water according to the performance of your espresso.

American coffee bean recommendation

Qianjie Coffee sells four kinds of Italian coffee beans, all of which are based on the tastes of mass consumers. There are balanced tonality of nuts, mellow and full-bodied tonality, slightly sour mellow tonality, and particularly amazing tonality ~ everyone can choose according to their own taste preferences.

1. Balanced espresso beans-Qianjie coffee boutique coffee beans are made from Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%), with the flavor of nuts, dark chocolate and caramel. This mixed coffee is more balanced in sour taste, bitter taste and aroma, neither too sour nor too mellow, so it is suitable for friends who have just come into contact with Italian coffee.

two。 Bitter espresso beans-Qianjie Coffee is commercially blended with coffee beans, consisting of Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee (60%), with the flavor of nuts, cocoa and caramel. mellow thickness. Qianjie takes into account the diversity of the audience, to create a strong flavor of mixed beans, it is necessary to choose strong flavor coffee beans.

3. With slightly sour and mellow Italian coffee beans-Qianjie coffee basic mix, Yunnan washed small coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%), with soft fruit acid, caramel, nut flavor performance. Qianjie this basic mix of coffee beans, with a high performance-to-price ratio, presents the most popular taste and flavor, whether it is the first contact with coffee, or the friends of heavy coffee lovers, can easily accept this Italian coffee beans.

4. Alcohol-based Italian coffee beans-Qianjie coffee sunflower sunflower blended with coffee beans, made from Ethiopian sun-tanned cherry coffee beans (30%) and Honduran sherry bucket coffee beans (70%). It has strong wine aroma, sweet and sour vanilla cream, sweet and sour berries and roasted nuts. The Italian coffee bean in Qianjie is named Sunflower Sunshine. As the name suggests, the flavor of this Italian coffee bean is as comfortable as the warm sun, and the taste is eye-catching.