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With international freshly ground coffee brands like Starbucks and Costa opening directly operated stores in China, a coffee boom has risen domestically. Numerous merchants continuously hype up coffee beverages. Besides the relatively expensive freshly ground coffee, affordable instant coffee and coffee drinks also enjoy very high popularity. So how many main types of coffee drinks are there now? What do they taste like? Below, Front Street gives everyone a brief introduction.

Front Street Americano

Americano is a type of black coffee, composed of espresso + water, with no other additives. During World War II, coffee was very popular among the US military. Americans were not used to the strong bitter taste of espresso, so they diluted the coffee liquid with water to reach a concentration they could accept. Later, in the coffee shops opened by Italians in the United States, they also "followed local customs" and introduced black coffee based on espresso. Since then, this coffee has become very popular.

Americano has no fixed ratio; each store has its own production standards, aiming to present the flavor and mouthfeel of the coffee. According to the ratio of 1:6 that Front Street has tested and blended many times, 40 grams of coffee liquid is poured into 240 grams of hot water at 88°C, and hot Americano is ready. If making iced Americano, the hot water is replaced with 120 grams of ice cubes and 120 grams of room-temperature water. The taste is best before the ice melts. Front Street's iced Americano presents creamy vanilla flavor with the sweet and sour taste of berries, refreshing and cutting through grease, so it is especially popular in stores in hot Guangzhou; hot Americano highlights the richness of roasted nuts and chocolate, with fermented sweet and sour tropical fruit, and a caramel finish.

Front Street Latte

About 60% of coffee drinks on the market are marketed under the name latte coffee. The most important reason is that latte is a coffee drink relatively easy for Chinese people to accept, because latte uses sweet milk as the base and adds espresso, so even Chinese consumers who are not used to drinking coffee can accept it.

The ingredients of latte coffee are very simple; only espresso and milk are needed. There is also no fixed ratio, mostly ranging from 1:5 to 1:8. Front Street uses a ratio of 1:6, with 40g espresso liquid and 240g milk. When producing hot latte, Front Street adds espresso liquid to a preheated coffee cup, then uses the steam from an espresso machine to froth the milk. The milk temperature is best controlled at 55-65°C, so that it forms dense milk foam with moderate thickness, then evenly integrates with the coffee liquid. The final latte art is the icing on the cake. Front Street's hot latte presents the sweet aroma of liqueur chocolate, smooth as cream. Front Street's iced latte first adds 75 grams of ice cubes + 180ml of fresh milk, then extracts 40 grams of coffee liquid and pours it on the surface. Before drinking, customers are reminded to stir thoroughly.

Front Street Cappuccino

Cappuccino, like latte coffee, is composed only of milk and coffee, with a very delicate and thick layer of milk foam on top. In earlier years, cappuccino coffee generally followed a ratio of espresso, milk, and milk foam of 1:1:1, but if we make cappuccino according to this standard, the concentration is very high, and the thick layer of milk foam makes it difficult to drink the coffee. The biggest difference between cappuccino and latte coffee is that the essence of cappuccino is the delicate milk foam providing a full and fine mouthfeel. The milk foam and espresso are integrated and poured until the coffee reaches 11 parts full.

Front Street's cappuccino coffee mainly ensures these points: a small cup size of 180ml, 11 parts full, rich coffee flavor, and dense thick milk foam. That is, with a double espresso as the base, 150ml of milk is frothed into thick milk foam and integrated into it. Front Street's cappuccino tastes of rich chocolate milk flavor, and the dense milk foam adds a lot of mouthfeel to the coffee.

Front Street Flat White

Flat White is also called "澳白", "馥芮白" or "平白". Flat White coffee is a new product created by Australians by modifying the ratio parameters on the basis of hot latte coffee. There are mainly two differences.

The base used in Flat White is called Ristretto. Australians want to drink milk coffee with a stronger coffee flavor and believe that the latter part of espresso will "dilute" the coffee flavor, so they only take the front and middle sections of espresso and "restrict" the latter section, which is why it is called Ristretto. When we drink Flat White, it is not difficult to find that its cup volume is smaller than hot latte. With less coffee liquid, after integrating the same amount of milk as latte, it is difficult to highlight the coffee flavor, so the proportion of hot milk is also reduced, frothed into hot milk with thin milk foam, evenly integrated. Without a thick layer of milk foam, the coffee is generally level with the cup rim, so it is called "Flat White", also translated as "平白". Flat means "level", and White refers to the white coffee with milk added.

Front Street's Flat White coffee generally uses 20g of coffee powder to extract a double ristretto of about 30g, poured into a 200ml cup as the base, with milk added at a ratio of 1:5, that is, 150ml of hot milk. The frothed milk foam should be as thin as possible, so as to highlight the rich mouthfeel of the coffee. The Flat White produced by Front Street stores not only has the flavor of whiskey aroma, cream, and vanilla, but also has a sweet and sour berry-like taste, expressing a full coffee aroma.

Front Street Mocha

In addition to the above "basic" espresso drinks with only water and milk added, syrups of different flavors can also be added. For example, mocha coffee, named after Mocha, the place where coffee became famous, is a very popular one. Classic mocha coffee flavor has a rich dark cocoa aroma. To highlight this characteristic, espresso mocha coffee adds chocolate sauce/chocolate powder/chocolate chunks. When Front Street makes hot mocha coffee, it adds 15g of chocolate sauce to the espresso, stirs it thoroughly and evenly, then pours in frothed hot milk and integrates it with latte art. Finally, a layer of cocoa powder can be sprinkled on the surface to add chocolate aroma and mouthfeel. Iced mocha is made by adding 15g of chocolate sauce to the espresso of an iced latte.

Front Street Pour-over Coffee

Pour-over coffee first grinds coffee beans into powder, then evenly pours hot water from a kettle to contact the coffee powder layer, "dissolving" the substances in the coffee. In fact, it uses a dripper with filter paper or other tools to filter out the coffee grounds so they do not enter the lower pot together, thus obtaining a cup of black coffee with a clear mouthfeel.

There are many kinds of beans suitable for pour-over coffee. With different varieties, origins, and processing methods, as the brewer understands and adjusts the parameters, the flavor and mouthfeel characteristics of the coffee change more or less, and the taster can feel the purest aroma of the coffee. Dozens of single-origin coffee beans on Front Street's bean list can all be extracted by pour-over. Everyone can place orders and purchase according to their own preferences at Front Street's Taobao store or Front Street Tmall flagship store.

Now you can already purchase Front Street Coffee single-origin coffee beans and espresso blend coffee beans at Tmall "Front Street Flagship Store", 60 kinds of coffee beans from around the world, freshly roasted and shipped within 24H.

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