Category: Coffee Beans

A doppio is simply the Italian word for a double shot of espresso — roughly 2oz (60ml) pulled from 14-18g of ground coffee, using a double portafilter basket. It’s not a different drink or a more concentrated one; it’s the same espresso ratio as a single shot, just doubled in size.

A café au lait is drip coffee mixed with hot milk in roughly equal parts, while a latte is espresso topped with steamed milk and a thin layer of foam. The coffee base is the real difference — one uses brewed coffee, the other uses espresso — and that changes the ratio, texture, and caffeine…

Protein coffee (sometimes called “proffee”) is coffee blended with protein powder, usually with milk and ice, combining caffeine’s alertness with protein’s staying power. Done wrong, it turns into a clumpy, grainy mess — but the fix is simple once you know why it happens.

Vietnamese coffee is built around three things: robusta beans, a slow metal drip filter called a phin, and sweetened condensed milk instead of dairy and sugar. The result is a small, intensely strong, syrupy-sweet cup that’s brewed differently from almost any other coffee tradition. We’ve covered another Old World brewing style in Arabic vs. Turkish…

A frappuccino is a blended, ice-based coffee drink — coffee (or a non-coffee “crème” base), milk, ice, and flavoring blended until slushy, then topped with whipped cream. We’ve already covered how a frappuccino compares to a cappuccino in that guide; this one is the full how-to, including the actual ingredient that gives it that signature…

Vanilla sweet cream cold brew is cold brew concentrate topped with a hand-whipped mix of heavy cream, 2% milk, and vanilla syrup poured over ice — no stirring, so the cream cascades through the coffee rather than blending flat. It’s one of Starbucks’ most-ordered cold drinks, and it’s simple enough to build at home once…

Nitro cold brew is regular cold brew concentrate infused with nitrogen gas, which creates a creamy, cascading texture without any added dairy or sugar. Regular cold brew is thinner and brighter, served over ice. The nitrogen itself adds zero caffeine — any caffeine difference between the two comes down to how concentrated the base coffee…

Dalgona coffee is instant coffee, sugar, and hot water whipped in equal parts until it turns into a thick, stiff-peaked foam, then spooned over milk. It gets its name from its visual resemblance to dalgona, a Korean sugar-and-baking-soda honeycomb candy — the drink itself has no candy in it. It went viral worldwide in 2020…