TIL Japan has something called アメリカンコーヒー, often referred to in English by the unintentionally condescending name "weak coffee".
TIL Japan has something called アメリカンコーヒー, often referred to in English by the unintentionally condescending name "weak coffee".
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I thought maybe it was supposed to say Americano, but it's not the same. There's an explanation here. It's made from light roasted beans, and they say it most likely got it's name from Americans in post-war Japan brewing coffee with lots of water or diluting it further before drinking.
I'm not American, but the name sounds a little judgemental to me.
the name sounds a little judgemental to me.
The only way it really sounds judgmental is if you get hung up on the word "weak".
Weak has a very negative tone to it. Using weak to describe food or drink is rarely, if ever, used in a positive way.
It seems as well to refer to light vs dark roast? For example some coffee shops sell “Blonde” coffee which is much lighter
Weirdly enough, lighter roasts have more caffeine typically if measuring by volume.
This was semi-debunked by James Hoffman semi-recently.
Technically yes lighter roast has more caffeine in the beans because less is burned off.
However, you use more darker roast because lighter roast is heavier (because darker is effectively more dry). Also because the darker roast is more roasted, the caffeine in the beans may be more easily accessible/dissolvable.
I think roughly it evened out in the end.
Yeah I'm a huge fan of James but no one measures by weight really unless you're a nerd like us. So hence why I said if measured by volume specifically.
Needs unite!
(Here's the clip... it just happened to pop up on my Instagram feed today - https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvhUPXVIzZl/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== )
Well so an Americano is a coffee drink consisting of espresso diluted with boiling water. These are sold the world over, including here in America.
アメリカン literally just means "American" so it strikes me as entirely possible that this was the original intent of the beverage on the screen.