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Americanois the most popular item in coffee shops besides milk coffee. If milk coffee lovers are mostly women, thenAmericanocan be considered a very neutral coffee, and its popularity is basically the same among male and female customers.

What is Americano?

Americano, simply put, is coffee suited to American tastes. When Americans first encountered espresso in Italy, they found it hard to adapt to its strong flavor. American consumers were used to drip coffee, so in order to achieve a concentration similar to drip coffee, they diluted espresso to a certain extent. In simple terms, it is actually espresso diluted with water.

Why isAmericanoso popular?

Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee), based on daily service and conversations with customers, has learned that people loveAmericanofor several reasons: one, it is cheap and affordable with high cost performance; another, Americano can be diluted according to different people's preferred strength; and another, Americano is simple enough that there is no need to struggle over choices.

Compared with lattes and cappuccinos that require milk, Americano without milk is naturally cheaper in cost than milk coffee. At the same time, when coffee shops serve Americano, they usually use espresso-blend coffee beans with high cost performance and relatively low cost.

In order to allow the coffee flavor to be quickly extracted under high temperature and pressure while still achieving a rich, mellow taste and an overall balanced expression, coffee roasters can be said to have used everything they have learned. This requires not only a deep understanding of coffee beans, but also strict quality control and knowledge and understanding of coffee roasting.

In order to cater to the taste preferences of mass consumers, Front Street Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee) currently sells 4 espresso blend coffee beans with different flavors and different prices. All shipped coffee beans are dispatched within 5 days after roasting is completed, 100% freshly roasted coffee beans.

"Warm Sun Blend Coffee Beans" 79/227g: Ethiopia natural Red Cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduras Sherry barrel coffee beans (70%), with rich wine aroma, vanilla cream, berry sweetness and acidity, and roasted nut flavors.

"Front Street Specialty Blend Coffee Beans" 75/454g: Colombia washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazil semi-washed coffee beans (70%), with nut, dark chocolate, and caramel flavors.

"Front Street Commercial Blend Coffee Beans" 60/454g: Robusta washed coffee beans (10%) + Colombia washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazil semi-washed coffee (60%), with nut, cocoa, and caramel flavors.

"Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend Coffee Beans" 50/454g: Yunnan washed small-bean coffee beans (30%) + Brazil semi-washed coffee beans (70%), with soft fruit acidity, caramel, and nut flavors.

How to make Americano at home?

Making Americano usually requires the use of a dedicated espresso machine. To extract espresso with an espresso machine, the coffee grounds need to be ground to an extremely fine degree, then placed into the portafilter basket at the recommended capacity, and then extracted at a 1:1 ratio to obtain twice the amount of coffee liquid as the coffee grounds, after which water is added for dilution according to personal taste preference.

When serving Americano, Front Street grinds the coffee beans into powder and then extracts espresso at a 1:2 coffee-to-liquid ratio, pouring it into water for dilution, that is, using 20 grams of coffee grounds to extract 40 grams of coffee liquid.

According to repeated experiments and adjustments by Front Street, a 1:6 ratio of coffee liquid to water is most suitable for expressing the aroma of Front Street Warm Sun Blend, that is, pouring 40 grams of coffee liquid into 240 grams of hot water at 88°C, and the hot Americano is ready. If serving iced Americano, the hot water is replaced with 120 grams of ice cubes and 120 grams of room-temperature water, and the taste is best before the ice cubes melt.

If you do not have an espresso machine, you can use ready-to-drink espresso/freeze-dried coffee and then add an appropriate amount of water.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.