Naturally sweet coffee beans and Italian coffee roasting for more caramel flavor are the key ingredients for Italian espresso. Using fresh roasted coffee is the secret to making naturally sweet Italian coffee at home.
You can recognize a fresh roast when your espresso has abundant crema, the thick foam on top of your espresso. This foam forms when the roast releases some of the volatile aromatic compounds, which are naturally trapped in roasted beans.
Your espresso machine brews with pressure and releases these aromas. Those are the same volatile aromas you can smell when you open a fresh roasted coffee package. As the coffee roast ages, the roasted beans slowly release these gasses over time.
If you are making Italian espresso with recently roasted coffee beans, your crema will be more abundant and the smell more pronounced.
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