What is the difference between American coffee and espresso coffee? How to make iced American coffee at home?

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American coffee is the most popular coffee in a coffee shop besides milk coffee. If milk coffee is mostly loved by women, American coffee can be regarded as a very neutral coffee, and its popularity is basically the same between male and female guests.

What is American coffee?

American coffee, to put it simply, is coffee that suits American taste. When Americans first came into contact with espresso in Italy, it was difficult to adapt to the strong taste of espresso. American consumers are used to drip coffee, in order to get a concentration similar to drip coffee, coffee obtained by diluting espresso to a certain extent. To put it simply, it is espresso diluted with water.

Why is American coffee so popular?

Qianjie Coffee learned from the daily chat with guests that people love American coffee so much, one is that American coffee is cheap and cost-effective, the other is that American coffee can be diluted according to different people's concentration preferences, and one is that American coffee is simple enough to make a choice.

Compared with lattes and cappuccinos that need milk, American coffee without milk is naturally cheaper than milk coffee. At the same time, coffee shops produce American coffee, which is usually matched with coffee beans with Italian concentrates that are cost-effective and relatively cheap.

In order to enable the coffee taste to be extracted quickly in a high-temperature and pressurized environment, it can also get a rich and mellow taste, as well as a sense of balance as a whole, coffee roasters can be said to have exhausted what they have learned all their lives, not only need to have in-depth understanding of coffee beans, but also have strict quality control and knowledge and understanding of coffee roasting.

In order to cater to the tastes of mass consumers, Qianjie Coffee currently sells four kinds of Italian coffee beans with different flavors and different prices. All coffee beans shipped are sent within 5 days after baking, and 100% coffee beans are freshly roasted.

Warm sun blended coffee beans "79mp 227g: Ethiopian sun red cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduran sherry barrel coffee beans (70%), with strong wine aromas, sweet and sour vanilla cream, sweet and sour berries, and roasted nut flavor.

"boutique matching coffee beans" 75tick 454g: Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%), with the flavor of nuts, dark chocolate and caramel.

"Commercial blended coffee beans" 60max 454g: Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee (60%), with nutty, cocoa and caramel flavors.

"basic matching coffee beans" 50mp 454g: Yunnan washed small coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian half-sun coffee beans (70%), with soft fruit acid, caramel and nutty flavor.

How to make American coffee at home?

The production of American coffee usually requires the use of a special Italian coffee machine. To extract espresso with an espresso machine, you need to grind the coffee powder to a very fine degree, then put it into the recommended capacity of the powder bowl in the coffee handle, and then extract twice the amount of coffee powder at 1:1. Then add water to dilute it according to your own taste.

If you don't have a partner in an espresso machine, you can use instant espresso / freeze-dried coffee, and then add the right amount of water.