Guideline of how to make Bustelo coffee and different type of Coffee brews
Café Bustelo Coffee Making takes that strong, full-bodied Cuban espresso coffee flavor to the cup. And of course, its strong coffee flavor is perfect for drinking straight out as espresso, café con leche, or mixed into your iced coffee beverages. Here’s how to make a cup of Café Bustelo coffee in steps:
Ingredients
Café Bustelo Ground Coffee: Espresso grind or regular grind-whichever you prefer
Water: Best with filtered water
Milk or Creamer (optional)- preferably: Likes it to be a café con leche style of coffee or milky coffee
Sugar (optional): To taste
Equipment
Espresso Machine or Moka Pot: Both are the best for brewing Café Bustelo. The machine also has an option if you want a quantity of coffee, and you can easily replace it with a drip coffee maker. It also needs a grinder when you intend to use whole beans. When you use the pour-over method, you just need to have a kettle to boil your water.
Method 1: Using a Moka Pot
- Tare coffee: To make 2 oz of coffee, place 1 to 2 tbsp of Café Bustelo ground coffee in the basket and add to taste
- Fill Moka Pot:
- Bottom chamber of Moka Pot :The fresh water will fill up to the safety valve
- Coffee basket: Place ground coffee into basket without tamping with straight edge. Tamp it down.
- Assemble Moka: screw top and bottom chambers together very tightly.
- You place the Moka Pot on medium heat and let it warm up. This will cause water to boil and pressure that it makes its way to push through the grounds into the upper chamber.
- Percolating: Any time you might take it to start hearing the percolate, then your coffee is ready. So, you just ensure that you take out the heat as you get it dry.
- Pouring: You will pour freshly cupped coffee into your cup, then can serve black or with sugar and milk.
Method 2: Using an Espresso Machine
- Brew Coffee: Grind café Bustelo coffee fine. A shot of espresso will require about 18-20 grams of coffee.
- Tamp the Coffee: Put the coffee in the portafilter and tamp down firmly to get proper extraction.
- Brew the Espresso: Place the portafilter in your espresso machine and allow it to brew a little espresso; that will take about 25 to 30 seconds in order to get a shot of espresso.
- Serve: Fill up the brewed and steamed espresso in your small cup. Enjoy it straight, or transform it to café con leche, or any type of coffee drink you like.
How to Brew Café con Leche?
To make café con leche (coffee with milk), you can do this
- Brew espresso
- Add milk
- Heat the Milk: In a saucepan, heat equal parts milk and water-or just milk on low heat-till warm but not hot enough to boil. You can froth it if you like.
- Mix: Combine equal parts of brewed coffee and warm milk in a glass. Go ahead and play around in finding the proportion that you like best.
- Sugar: Add sugar and dissolve to taste.
How to make Iced Café Bustelo?
How to make an iced coffee
- Brew Strong Coffee: Brew a strong pot of Café Bustelo using the Moka pot or espresso machine.
- Cool: Allow to cool at room temperature or refrigerate.
- Fill Glass with Ice: Fill a tall glass with ice.
- Pour in Coffee: Pour over cooled coffee into the glass full of ice.
- Add Milk and Sweetener to Taste: Pour a bit of milk and sugar on top. Stir well and serve.
Tips for incredible Café Bustelo Brew
Café-Usable Coffee
In-Café-Usable Coffee needs has to be freshly ground from beans if at all possible
Quality Water
Water Quality makes a Difference the quality of water makes all the difference between an outstanding cup of coffee and an absolutely disgusting one.
Experiment
Coffee-to-water, milk and sugar are up to you for that perfect cup
Conclusion
Easy to prepare, that good old traditional Cuban heavy flavor is now right at home. Either you like it in a shot of espresso, café con leche, or over ice, the above will allow you to get it just right every time. Let’s have some fun brewing!
