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  • My name is Mike Jones, and I'm a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square

  • Park in New York City. I'm going to teach you some basic coffee-making skills.

  • So, what is the difference between coffee and espresso anyway? This is a question I

  • get all the time. People will come in and want to buy beans and then not get them because

  • they're espresso beans or want to know, if they have an espresso machine at home, they

  • want to know what beans we have that they can use for that. The interesting thing about

  • that is espresso is just the name of a brew method. It's this machine right behind me.

  • You can take any coffee, grind it up, put it in there and you'll get a brewed cup of

  • coffee. So you could take, whether it be a light-roasted Ethiopian coffee, you could

  • make that as espresso, or like a more traditional darker roasted espresso blend. Historically

  • people have used blends for espresso. They are a little bit darkerat least that's

  • the way that they have been roasted. But recently people have been getting more excited about

  • what's called single-origin espresso, which is just taking coffee from one farm, it's

  • not roasted any differently, it's still pretty light, putting it in a grinder, and you get

  • really exciting results. More flavor balanced, more notes. So basically, it's just a method,

  • a method of brewing. Same as Pour-Over, or Mr. Coffee, or whatever else you can make

  • coffee with, that's what espresso isjust a method.

My name is Mike Jones, and I'm a barista at Third Rail Coffee right by Washington Square

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