How to make great Italian Espresso Coffee

The Italian espresso is, in my opinion ,best there is.You can get close , but you can't get better than this.The Italian tradition is to drink their espresso in a single gulp.In that way they can enjoy the full espresso flavor while the drink is fully fresh.One of the essentials for making great coffee is to grind coffee beans just before making espresso. You are supposed to drink espresso with very little sugar, and most Italian traditionalist will tell you that the true test of a great espresso is that the sugar must be able to sit on the surface of the crema for at least 30 seconds before sinking!

Of course, great coffee beans,great recipe,or just right amounts of sugar don't mean anything if you don't have right kind of coffee maker.And I strongly recommend Breville Espresso Maker because it's really a space shuttle among coffee makers.

In your coffee maker heat the water between 85 and 93ºC. and force it under 8 - 10 atmospheres of pressure through 6- 9 grams of fresh ground coffee beans so that about 1,5 fluid oz. of beverage falls into a small cup in around 20 seconds. Espresso is usually served in a "half cup" that usually has the capacity of holding about 3 oz.Add just a little sugar to test if you are successful in making real style Italian espresso and Voila!

Enjoy your espresso.

Best Irish coffee recipe

This is probably the best recipe for Irish coffee that I ever tried.

Ingredients:
8 oz hot coffee
2 oz Irish whiskey (I prefer Jameson or Tullamore dew)
1 brown sugar (or sugar made from sugar cane)
cream

Make coffee the way you usually make it.I prefer Turkish coffee or espresso coffee made in Breville ESP8XL Cafe Roma Stainless Espresso Maker
.Mix Jameson whiskey, brown sugar and your coffee in a big cup,then stir it to dissolve. Put cold cream very gently on top. Don't mix,especially if you made Turkish coffee.

Enjoy your coffee!

How to Make Best Tasting Cup of Coffee - Part 1

Let's start from beginning: for drinking great cup of gourmet coffee throw away all the coffee you have in your house already! You'll have to get coffee beans and grind them just before you want to make your favorite beverage.

Previously grind coffee,which you probably have and can buy in most food stores around the country is just no good.Grind coffee looses aroma and taste,so that's why beverages made from fresh grind coffee beans have much more taste,aroma and caffeine compared to beverage made from previously grind coffee.

Basically,there are two sorts in commercial use today:

• "Arabica",cultivated mostly in South America and it covers about 75 % of the world's coffee trade
• "Robusta" cultivated mostly in Africa,covers about 20% of the world's coffee trade

Which one you want to use is totally up to you and your personal taste.

There are also few other sorts of beans and plants,but they're cultivated and traded in very small quantities.

"Arabica" and "Robusta" have slightly different taste ("Robusta" is more bitter for example),and most commercial brands used today are blended from this two sorts.Besides blending sorts in various ratios, different flavors can also be gained by different grades of roasting process.More roasted beans have more bitter taste.

In gourmet food stores you can buy unroasted ,green coffee beans and roast it at your home to get your personal preferred taste,but it is very demanding job,and chances that you'll succeed are very low,so I wouldn't recommend it

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