The café Americano

I have never much like the watery rubbish that is the café Americano, the growth of American style coffee houses has seen my choices of good black coffee somewhat limited. The café Americano is a style of coffee prepared by brewing a standard espresso shot then adding hot water to the espresso shot allowing a similar strength but somewhat different flavor to drip brewed coffee.

A popular belief that the café Americano origins were born during the second world war when American Soldiers stationed in Italy diluted Italian espresso shots with hot water to brew a coffee to that they were accustomed too. I was once in a pretty good cafe down in Fremantle and I overheard an American tourist explaining to his friends that the United States has the world's best coffee in Seattle coffee chains - I nearly fell over at the thought of that horrible watery rubbish.