When buying your coffee, you may see a label for espresso beans. This term simply refers to how you brew the coffee and has nothing to do with the beans or roasting process. Learn the differences between espresso and coffee to explore your different flavor options.
Table of Contents
- What Is Espresso?
- Differences between Coffee Beans and Espresso Beans
- FAQs About Expresso Beans vs. Coffee Beans
- Contact Joe’s Garage Coffee
What Is Espresso?
If you’d like a full-flavored shot of coffee, you may love the concentrated espresso. Forcing hot and pressurized water through finely-ground coffee beans creates a rich flavor. The amplified coffee taste offers a lightly sweet, bitter, toasty, or acidic profile with a thicker and creamier texture, depending on the coffee roast.
You can enjoy espresso on its own or in many drinks, such as the well-favored Americano or cappuccino.
Differences between Coffee Beans and Espresso Beans
Using different brewing techniques allows you to create your desired choice of coffee or espresso drinks:
- Grind: Making espresso requires fine, tightly packed grounds because the water comes into contact with them in a shorter amount of time.
- Brewing: Creating an espresso drink requires high pressure for the extraction process to work its magic in an espresso machine or AeroPress. A regular cup of coffee can brew in a percolator, French press, drip, or other methods.
- Taste: Brewing espresso creates a robust or richer flavor with a full-bodied and well-rounded finish.
FAQs About Espresso Beans vs. Coffee Beans
Learn more about espresso versus coffee with these common questions and answers:
- Is espresso coffee? Yes, espresso beans are coffee beans and the label refers to how to brew them for drinks.
- Does espresso have more caffeine? An average cup of espresso contains slightly less caffeine than a cup of drip brewed coffee.
- What’s the difference between espresso and dark roast? Espresso refers to the coffee extraction or brewing method. Dark roast describes beans roasted for a long time at high temperatures.
- Can I use coffee beans to make espresso? Absolutely, especially since they are one and the same.
Contact Joe’s Garage Coffee
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