The characteristics and production methods of American Coffee

Basic concept

"American Coffee" (English: Americano, Italian: Caff è Americano) is one of the most common coffee. It is made by using a drip-filter coffee pot to make black coffee, or by adding a lot of water to the Italian concentrate. The taste is light. Because the extraction time is relatively long (about four or five minutes), the caffeine content is high.

Manufacturing method

Similar to the American trickling method.

Characteristics.

American coffee is light and clear, almost transparent, and you can even see the brown coffee at the bottom of the cup.

Smell the fragrance and observe the color

You can add a little sugar and milk to pure black coffee, or you can add spices such as cinnamon to your coffee in European style, as in Africa and Arabia; if you are not used to the bitter taste of coffee, you can also add some juice you like to your coffee. However, drinking a cup of authentic black coffee can taste the rich flavor of the coffee itself and will be regarded as an expert in tasting coffee. No matter how you drink it, there are still some exquisite and knowledgeable people who taste coffee.

Step: a cup of coffee in front of you, do not rush to drink, should be like tea or wine tasting, there should be a step-by-step process to achieve relaxation, refreshing and enjoyment.

The first step is to smell the fragrance and taste the strong aroma of coffee; the second step is to observe the color, the coffee had better be dark brown, rather than dark, deep to the bottom; the third step, taste, first drink a sip of black coffee, feel the taste of the original coffee, the coffee entrance should be a little sweet, slightly bitter, slightly sour. Then taste it in small mouthfuls, do not rush to swallow the coffee, but temporarily contain it in your mouth, let the coffee and saliva mix with the air, and then swallow it.

Temperature: the best temperature for drink coffee is 85 to 88 degrees Celsius. Because the texture of ordinary coffee is not stable, it is best to taste it while it is hot. In order not to reduce the taste of the coffee, soak the coffee cup in boiling water beforehand. The appropriate temperature for coffee is 83 degrees Celsius at the moment of brewing, 80 degrees Celsius when poured into the cup, and 61 to 62 degrees Celsius when it is in the mouth.

Generally speaking, tasting the coffee served by your host while it is hot is also the basic etiquette of drinking coffee. If a cup of high-quality coffee, after cooling, in addition to the aroma will be reduced, the taste performance is consistent with the hot, or even better.

Taste: coffee beans contain about 5% to 8% sugar, most of which are converted to caramel after baking, which is the source of aroma and bitterness, leaving a little sweetness in the unconverted sugar; tannin is released during baking and combines with caramel to produce a slightly bitter sweetness. Therefore, people's taste of coffee is generally bitter, sour, sweet, fragrant and astringent.

American

When Americans drink coffee, it is like playing a game without rules, laissez-faire without taboos.

Simple American coffee is divided into two categories: the east coast of the United States is stronger than the west coast, and the south is stronger than the north. Ethnically speaking, immigrants from southern Europe and Latinos prefer strong coffee to those from Britain, Germany and northern Europe. Americans are dismissive of all kinds of exquisite coffee made by Europeans. Americans drink coffee freely, and at the same time, coffee goes deep into their lives and is difficult to separate, and the influence is so deep that it is not considered a life without coffee. Americans can't do without coffee almost 24 hours a day, whether at home, in the office, in public, or at a roadside vending machine. This consumes 1/3 of the world's coffee production and is the country with the largest coffee consumption in the world. It is said that the Apollo 13 spaceship, which carried a man to the moon for the first time, had a life-and-death failure on its return voyage. at that time, the ground crew comforted the three astronauts with the words: "come on!" delicious hot coffee is waiting for your return. "

Generally speaking, life in the United States is relatively busy and tense, unlike people in Europe and the Middle East who are able to enjoy life in a leisurely mood. When drinking coffee, it is often a large pot of electrothermal filtered coffee (Drip Coffee Marker). From morning to night, because there is too much water, there is less coffee (10 grams of coffee in a cup versus 200 CC of water), and the taste is particularly weak. Therefore, many people criticize American coffee for being really bad. In fact, in all parts of the United States, coffee lovers can still taste their favorite coffee taste with a little more effort.

In addition, although the United States is the largest exporter of instant coffee, not many people in the United States drink instant coffee. In recent years, they pay more and more attention to the results of a healthy diet, the market for Coffeeineless Coffee is increasing, and the practice of drinking coffee without sugar is becoming more and more common.

Anecdote

American coffee is very light coffee. The French jokingly call American coffee jus de chaussette is the water for washing socks. In Europe (France and Italy), ordering American coffee is likely to be ridiculed.

Among them, there are several things about the way Americans drink coffee that Europeans disapprove of:

First, drink coffee with your meal. This is a habit peculiar to Americans.

Second, excessive economy. Unexpectedly reheat the cold coffee and drink it!

Third, leave the coffee pot for hours until the coffee is dehydrated-even coffee like this is not willing to be thrown away!

Fourth, too much emphasis on convenience, highly respected after the grinding of coffee. Unexpectedly, no matter how good the tightness of canned coffee is, as long as it is researched.

The freshness of ground coffee will be greatly reduced.