Long blacks, short blacks and other fancy coffees

You can seriously walk into one café in the same city order a long black, get a coffee, then walk into one around the corner, order the same coffee and get something completely different! This can be frustrating as a customer, tough it isn’t all bad, it is because hopefully the barista is trying to serve the coffee the way they like to drink it, hence improving the coffee as a whole…hopefully!

A long black as explained in my other blog post is a tastier interpretation of the a Americano. While they dump hot water on top of fresh espresso, a long black puts the water in first, then the fresh espresso on top.

Whether it is a double shot, single shot or double ristretto, it is up the to barista. At Black Market Roasters, we would typically, put a double ristretto on top of water that is approx. 75 degrees. A short black is merely 25-30 ml of the extraction and a piccolo is an espresso shot, with another 30 ml added to the top, with the foam ratio similar to a latte, hence piccolo latte.

These coffees seriously differ from state to state and I think it is cool that it does, as we will hopefully follow the path of what tastes best, rather than what is traditional, that can be kept in a museum!

Here at Black Market, we are constantly travelling the world, learning, tasting, talking to baristas, farmers and customers to see if anyone has discovered anything that tastes better. We source, roast and deliver some of the finest coffees in the world, so you can enjoy them in your living room with your family and friends.

We are Black Market Roasters, a wholesale and retail coffee bean supplier based in Sydney, but deliver free to Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra and Brisbane. We freshly roast Arabica single origin coffee beans, perfect for your breville coffee machine or other coffee maker. We roast many different types of coffee including decaffeinated coffee beans and as mentioned single origins from Colombia, Australia, Brasil plus more. Head over to our coffee beans page to buy a sample pack of freshly roasted coffee.