What is an extended?

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An extended Coffee is coffee diluted by adding hot water. The goal of dilution is to reduce the concentration so that it matches the taste. Making coffee with an espresso machine produces a concentrated brew. This may be too strong for some and that is why they ask for stretching with water.

If an extended drink is simply allowed to run through the espresso machine's portafilter for a longer period of time instead of being diluted with hot water, it will taste bitter. After 30 seconds, bitter substances are extracted.

Some guests just order a long coffee instead of a “real coffee”. Do you know how to properly prepare an extended drink?

Many guests seem to be used to the strongly bitter taste of an extended drink that runs down for too long, as one can observe that in many places where coffee is served, it is the custom to simply adjust the flow rate of water through the extended drink for an extended drink Raise the portafilter of the espresso machine.

Paradoxically, people who are used to drinking extended coffee prepared in this way seem to miss the strong bitter taste when served a properly prepared extended coffee.

For many people, bitter taste seems to mean “strong”. Bitter taste can also be easily masked with milk and sugar. In a pinch, because sometimes you are served coffee that already tastes bitter without any “extension”.

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Espresso that is diluted with hot water no longer tastes as strong. It is comparable to making Turkish tea. Turkish tea is also prepared in a concentrated form and then diluted with hot water to suit your taste. Two jugs are usually used for this. One in which the tea can steep and a second for the hot water to dilute.

We call wine or fruit juice diluted with soda or tap water “spritzen”.

An extended one therefore corresponds to a sprayed one with a “hot line” or “line hot”.

An undiluted espresso can be drunk in just a few sips. We drink an extended drink for longer. When we are thirsty, we can drink a long drink, with or without milk. Maybe even with ice cubes. Like the Americans.

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