How to Make Italian Espresso, Italian Coffee Culture, How to Drink Italian Coffee?

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What Defines High-Quality Coffee?

A cup of high-quality coffee, from seed to cup, often goes through the selection of raw beans, roasting, and then the fine extraction of coffee. The process of tasting coffee reflects different pursuits of quality of life and life philosophy—whether it's French romance, American convenience, or Italian refinement and freedom. The pursuit of coffee quality is the pursuit of life quality. So what kind of coffee can truly be considered high-quality coffee?

About Espresso

Espresso is an Italian coffee, and other Italian coffees include latte, cappuccino, etc. Other Italian coffees like latte are basically made with Espresso as a base, adding milk and other ingredients for blending. In most cases, Espresso is translated as "Italian concentrated coffee," translated as "concentrated" mainly because of its small portion size and its visually thick appearance.

When it comes to Italian coffee, I must first talk about Italy's coffee culture. When Italians go to cafés to drink coffee, their first choice is Espresso. If someone loudly asks for a cappuccino, nine times out of ten they're a foreigner. For Italians, cappuccino is equivalent to a beverage. In Italy, sitting down to drink coffee costs extra—this is probably only the case in Italian cafés. But Italians don't care, since drinking a cup of Espresso doesn't require sitting down anyway. They tilt their heads back and drink it in one gulp. If they want to chat, they find someone to talk with for a few sentences; if not, they just turn and leave.

Regarding Espresso, FrontStreet Coffee believes that if you can accept intense coffee flavors, it's an excellent choice. After all, Espresso amplifies the flavors of coffee, and in Espresso, you can more clearly taste the coffee's acidity, sweetness, and bitterness. FrontStreet Coffee creates a blend using Colombia + Brazil, with a bright yet gentle fruity acidity that's quite charming, nutty flavors emerging in the middle, and a persistent caramel aftertaste in the finish. If you like milk coffee, this formula is also an excellent choice. This coffee, which tends toward acidity and sweetness, has its sweetness enhanced when milk is added, and the cookie flavor that appears when it cools is quite surprising.

The spiritual essence of Espresso is like its meaning in Italian—fast, exclusive. A cup of Espresso represents the Italian pursuit of a relaxed, free, yet high-quality lifestyle. A high-quality Italian espresso must have rich crema to ensure its deliciousness, and some even describe crema as the soul of espresso.

Espresso is an Italian word with meanings of "on the spur of the moment" and "for you" (immediately brewed for you).

Espresso was born in 1946, when Gaggia further improved the piston pressure system—using spring pressure instead of manual pressing, allowing the brewed coffee to float with a layer of golden coffee oil—Crema. This was the first appearance of Crema in coffee history, and this year became the official birth year of Espresso.

In 1948, Gaggia officially established a coffee machine factory. Mass-produced Gaggia coffee machines were sought after by major cafés in Italy at the time, accelerating the popularity of Espresso in southern European countries such as Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

However, it wasn't until around 1986 that Espresso was promoted worldwide by Starbucks. After this, coffee professionals from various countries began to recognize and understand this type of coffee. This was only about ten years earlier than when Chinese people came into contact with Espresso. Therefore, a more popular and reasonable naming method is "Italian coffee."

"Espresso" has the beautiful reputation of "the soul of coffee." It should not be translated into Chinese as "extra strong coffee" because besides this, there is an even stronger coffee that needs this name. For cafés, "a café that doesn't sell 'Espresso' is not a café," which shows the importance of "Espresso."

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