Now, enough with Italian lessons as the two other relatives of espresso are not italian inventions. Lungos have a thinner body and a dryer and more acid taste.ĭoppio means double in Italian, so it is just a double espresso. Usually a lungo is a 60 ml beverage with more solubles and more caffeine than the ristretto or the espresso. Lungo means long in Italian so it is a long espresso produced by letting the extraction continue for more than 30 secs. The result is a smaller espresso (15 to 20 ml) with a concentrated flavour, thick texture and usually strong aftertaste.Īn espresso and his little brother ristretto (both in 60 ml cups) It is made from the same amount of ground coffee as an espresso but with a reduced brew time, only 15 to 20 sec., instead of the usual 25 to 30 seconds for an espresso. Ristretto means limited in Italian so it is a limited espresso. I personally prefer the one and only espresso, but allow me to introduce you to the whole family. With time, regardless of cooling, a perceived acidity increases.Įspresso has a little brother: ristretto, and two bigger brothers: lungo and doppio, and also two cousins: Americano and long black. Hence, the drink loses the smoothness and the balance of its taste. Without the crema the surface of the liquid is exposed and cools down faster.
So when you order an espresso and it is brought to your table without crema, you know there was too much time between brewing and serving which is not good. If not, the crema will shrink and break into patches. It should be served in a small cup with a capacity of 50 ml, half full, and it should have a distinctive thick layer of brown foam from tiny bubbles, known as the crema.Įspresso is meant to be prepared on purpose (expressively), at the moment and to be drunk immediately. According to some Italian sources it should be less, about 6.5 +- 1.5 gr. Espresso, the beverage, is extracted out of 8 to 10 grams of finely ground coffee. The beverage produced this way contains lower levels of caffeine per serving than other coffee-related beverages produced by methods that require longer brewing periods. The espresso brewing method involves pressure, in fact a rather high pressure. In fact, any type of beans and any level of roast can be used to make an espresso. That’s why the taste of the lungo is stronger compared to the Americano.Īny questions or would you like to find out more about roasting and coffee? Check out our knowledge base.As you probably already know my favourite coffee beverage is espresso, and espresso is the base for many other drinks that I enjoy and that I will describe in the following blogs.Įspresso is a brewing method and the name of the produced beverage, but it is not a level of roasting or a type of beans. With a Lungo this process is much longer. With an Americano it’s short because the ingredients are poured together directly. The big difference lies in the preparation time. The Americano is just like the Caffè Lungo, a combination of water and espresso. The lungo might look a lot like an Americano, there are some big differences that ultimately also affect the taste. To prevent the coffee from tasting too bitter, the coffee beans are more coarsely ground compared to the espresso.Ĭaffè lungo recipe: beans.at Caffè lungo vs. Therefore, the lungo tasted much more bitter than a regular espresso. The difference is in the amount of water you add: twice as much. To prepare a caffè lungo, you use the same amount of coffee as you would with brewing an espresso. Therefore, you can see this type of coffee as a ‘long espresso’. In Italian, the meaning of ‘lungo’ is literally ‘long’. The lungo coffee owes its name to the preparation time. An espresso, but just a bit different of course, we are talking about the caffè lungo! Are you a fan or do you prefer other coffee variants? We’ll tell you all about this delicious, Italian one.
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