When it comes to coffee, everyone must know two particularly common coffee drinks, one is Americano, and the other is pour-over coffee.
The practice of American coffee is to use a special high-pressure coffee machine to extract a very high concentration of espresso and then add a certain amount of water to dilute it. If you add hot water directly, it is hot American; if you mix espresso and ice cubes with cold water, it is ice American.
The hand-brewed coffee is: uses a special filter to fill the coffee powder and then fill the water, and the water passes through the coffee powder layer and becomes the coffee liquid. Ordinary hand-brewed coffee generally uses hot water at 8 or 90 degrees Celsius. If you put ice cubes under the filter cup to cool down the coffee liquid that flows down quickly, it is the so-called "ice pouring".
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Both Americano and pour-over coffee belong to the so-called "black coffee", which is a coffee drink mainly composed of coffee ingredients and water. So many friends will have questions: they are all coffee and water, what is the difference between them? Today, this fox is about to celebrate the new year, so that I will explain in detail the three differences between American coffee and pour-over coffee.
It is said that "American coffee" was invented by American soldiers after they arrived in Italy because they couldn't stand the bitterness of espresso coffee and endured the contempt of the locals and insisted on pouring water into it. Of course, there is another version that Starbucks invented to cater to customers who demand weak coffee. Still, that version is not fun to spoil American soldiers, so we generally promote the first one.
Since the espresso (ESPRESSO) is prepared and mixed with water, how much water is added is a very free thing. With espresso as the base, there are from 1:1 to 1:10, depending on personal taste.
A macchiato is a drink made by mixing a cup of espresso with a thin layer of milk froth. Some people also refer to this drink as espresso with milk. However, there are two different main variants of macchiato, which include the espresso macchiato and the latter or high strength macchiato. To make an espresso macchiato, you will need to use your favorite brand of coffee beans (we recommend the bold and full-bodied Lifeboost Coffee dark roast coffee beans) and then brew a cup of espresso in your cup. Then, add a thin layer of frothed milk to the top of your drink, pouring it in slowly so they don't mix.
We usually drink in coffee shops, the more common one is the strong version with about five times the water equivalent to the espresso liquid, and the light version is about eight times. The weight of the espresso itself can usually be about twice the weight of the ground coffee. In this way, for example, we use 15 grams of coffee powder to make American style. Generally, we can produce 150 grams to 240 grams of coffee liquid. If the taste is too strong, we can make a 60 grams version. For congratulations, you can also make a version of more than 300 grams, and you can change it as you like.
The "hand-brewed coffee" is to uses hot water to pass through the coffee powder and bring out the ingredients inside to make coffee liquid. Since water also needs to do the work of brewing coffee here, it can't be too little. Generally speaking, most hand brewing process recommends about 15 to 20 times the weight of the powder.
Considering that the coffee powder also absorbs water, the ratio is generally close to 1:2, and this amount of water must be subtracted from the total water injection. So if we use 15 grams of coffee powder to make hand-brewed coffee, we can generally get 195 grams to 270 grams of coffee liquid.
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What is the difference in taste between "American coffee" and "hand-brewed coffee"? This is a thing that has troubled many friends.
American coffee, as mentioned above, is to use a special machine to make "ESPRESSO", and then add water to it. Due to the high pressure of the machine used, this espresso tends to have a thick layer of foam, which we call "grease", but there is no oil in it, mostly air bubbles, and some that are difficult to dissolve in water, a substance forced out by high pressure. The advantage of this part of the substance is that it can provide a better smooth taste and a lasting volatile aroma. The disadvantage is that it will bring a stronger bitter taste. It is difficult to say whether it is an advantage or a disadvantage. The feature is that it can stay in our mouths for a long time.
Therefore, the characteristics of American coffee are similar to that of espresso: it is more bitter, but the aroma is longer, and the taste is stronger. Since the machine is involved in the production, the consistency can also be relatively stable.