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Why Do Celebrities Love Iced Americano Despite Its Bitterness? How to Make Perfect Iced Americano Coffee?

Published: 2026-01-27 Author: FrontStreet Coffee

Last Updated: 2026/01/27, For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat: cafe_style). Although it's the most common iced coffee, it's not as simple as you imagine - just espresso + water + ice. Why? Because the order is wrong! Adding water to espresso makes an Americano, but adding espresso to water is different!

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Iced Americano is essentially a product made by diluting espresso with ice water. Because it's a black coffee made only from coffee beans and water, it's a healthy beverage with zero calories, zero sugar, and zero fat.

Celebrities love drinking iced Americano for several reasons: it's refreshing and helps cut through richness, the caffeine provides an energy boost, and it aids in fat burning to achieve weight loss effects.

Can Iced Americano Really Help with Weight Loss?

Although iced Americano has weight loss benefits, you shouldn't rely solely on drinking Americano coffee! Daily balanced and healthy eating along with moderate exercise are still very important! Therefore, we don't recommend consuming large amounts of iced Americano daily—1-2 cups per day is about right.

Americano coffee is also very simple to make. In this article, FrontStreet Coffee will discuss how to make iced Americano coffee, as well as popular trending methods for making iced Americano.

How to Make Iced Americano?

Iced Americano is a product made using espresso, so we need to use a dedicated espresso machine for preparation. If you drink it frequently, you can buy a simple home espresso machine!

The flavor of Americano coffee is determined by the coffee beans themselves. To ensure you can still taste rich coffee flavor after dilution with water, coffee shops typically use dark roasted blended coffee beans for making espresso. FrontStreet Coffee currently sells four coffee blends specifically designed for espresso, among which the "Sunflower Warm Sun Blend" and "FrontStreet Coffee Premium Blend" are very suitable for home and office use.

"Warm Sun Blend" 79/227g: Ethiopian natural processed Red Cherry coffee beans (30%) + Honduras Sherry barrel-aged coffee beans (70%), featuring rich wine aroma, vanilla cream, berry sweet and sour notes, and roasted nut flavors.

"Premium Blend" 75/454g: Colombian washed coffee beans (30%) + Brazilian semi-natural processed coffee beans (70%), featuring nut, dark chocolate, and caramel flavors.

To extract espresso using an espresso machine, you need to grind the coffee beans to a very fine consistency, then fill the portafilter basket with the recommended amount of coffee grounds, extract coffee liquid in a 1:1 ratio (twice the amount of coffee grounds), and finally dilute with ice water according to your taste preference—that's Americano!

How to Make Sparkling Iced Americano?

Same as iced Americano, but replace ice water with sparkling water. Be careful! When sparkling water is poured into coffee, it will create lots of foam, just like pouring cola. Therefore, FrontStreet Coffee recommends pouring coffee into the sparkling water.

How to Make Waterfall Iced Americano?

Waterfall iced Americano requires a cup-shaped ice mold. Place the frozen ice cup in room temperature water, keeping it balanced; then add hot espresso to the ice cup; the coffee will gradually melt the ice cup and create holes; because coffee and water have different densities, the coffee liquid will slowly flow down after piercing through, creating a fine waterfall effect.

How to Make Quicksand Iced Americano?

Pour the extracted espresso into a latte art pitcher, then add ice water mixture, next use the coffee machine's steam wand to aerate the Americano in the pitcher, finally prepare a glass full of ice, pour the foamed Americano into the ice cubes, and as the foam dissipates, the Americano will show a quicksand effect.

In terms of taste, because the strong-flavored espresso is aerated with ice, the bitterness of the coffee liquid is reduced, instead highlighting subtle vanilla flavors and refreshing berry sweet and sour notes. Combined with the fine and smooth foam layer, it creates a dark beer-like mouthfeel.