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Americano is made by diluting espresso with water. It generally uses dark-roasted Italian-style coffee beans. Front Street's Americano beans are a blend of single-origin beans from two regions. The advantage is that it compensates for the low acidity of traditional Italian coffee, making the flavor richer.
What coffee beans are used for Americano?
Americano beans fall into two types: one is blended coffee beans, and the other is SOE (single origin espresso). The biggest difference between the two lies in how many kinds of coffee beans they contain. A blend contains at least two kinds of coffee beans, while SOE contains only one.
Front Street Americano Bean Offerings
How does Front Street Coffee make Americano?
Acidity-forward Americano beans
Front Street Strawberry Candy Italian-style coffee beans are composed of three regions—Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ethiopia—combining sun-dried, washed, and honey-processed coffees into one. It has flavors of rose, grape, orange, cream, and almond, with a light body and pleasant sweet-tartness, making it very suitable for summer drinking.
Recommended parameters for making hot Americano: 18 grams of grounds in a double portafilter (plus or minus 1 gram), extract 36 grams of coffee liquid, extraction time 28 seconds, then pour the coffee liquid into a 200ml cup already filled with hot water. If you prefer a stronger coffee taste, you can appropriately reduce the amount of water; if you want a more diluted taste, you can appropriately add more water.
Using Front Street Huakui SOE coffee beans to make Americano will have flavors of citrus, berries, and floral notes, with a refreshing mouthfeel, noticeable acidity, and not much body.
Fuller-bodied Americano beans
Using Front Street Coffee's Front Street Commercial Blend coffee beans, which select Colombian coffee beans, Brazilian coffee beans, and Robusta coffee beans, the brewed coffee has caramel sweetness, flavors of nuts, cocoa, and dark chocolate, balanced acidity and sweetness, a slight bitterness, and a long finish.
Recommended parameters for making iced Americano: 18 grams of grounds in a double portafilter (plus or minus 1 gram), extract 36 grams of coffee liquid, extraction time 28 seconds, then pour the coffee liquid into a 330ml cup already filled with ice cubes and water.
Balanced, middle-ground Americano beans
Using Front Street Specialty Blend coffee beans,Selecting Colombian coffee beans and Brazilian coffee beans, the extracted coffee has a soft, slight acidity, light sweetness, and a nutty sweet aftertaste. Overall, it is not too pungent and is mild, with a medium body.
Recommended parameters for making iced Americano: 18 grams of grounds in a double portafilter (plus or minus 1 gram), extract 36 grams of coffee liquid, extraction time 28 seconds, then pour the coffee liquid into a 330ml cup already filled with ice cubes and water.
Front Street Americano Beans
The above three blends make Americanos with different flavors. Some friends like to drink acidic coffee, so Front Street Huakui SOE coffee beans and Front Street Strawberry Candy Italian-style coffee beans are very suitable. If you want something fuller-bodied, then choose Front Street Commercial Blend coffee beans. If you want neither too acidic nor too heavy, you can choose Front Street Specialty Blend coffee beans.
Tasting steps
When a cup of coffee is brought in front of you, don't rush to drink it. Like tasting tea or wine, there should be a gradual process to achieve the goals of relaxation, refreshment, and enjoyment.
The first step is to smell the aroma and experience the rich fragrance of the coffee rushing toward you.
The second step is to observe the color. Coffee is best when it appears dark brown, rather than pitch-black and bottomlessly dark.
The third step is to taste. First take a sip of black coffee to feel the taste of the original coffee. When it enters your mouth, the coffee should have some sweetness, slight bitterness, and slight acidity without astringency. Then sip it in small mouthfuls. Don't rush to swallow the coffee in one gulp; instead, hold it in your mouth for a moment, let the coffee mix briefly with saliva and air, and then swallow.
The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.
