What is Lungo Coffee Drink?

An Americano is a shot of espresso diluted with two shots of hot water. While in the preparation of lungo, the entire volume of water flows through the coffee and a more complete and balanced drink is obtained.

You can cook delicious Americano, but then you need to approach roasting in a different way. Usually coffee is roasted separately for espresso and separately for filter brewing methods. In the case of Americano, you need to use a separate grinder to grind it coarser than for espresso. But this makes little sense when there is an opportunity to make more delicious black coffee - lungo.

Many coffee shops now offer Australian lungo as an alternative to americano, positioning lungo as a more proper black coffee. Americanos are not loved in third-wave coffee shops, as this whole culture revolves around maximizing the potential of a particular bean. And of course, adding 100-200 milliliters of hot water to a balanced espresso with its special body, aroma, taste characteristics simply makes the whole process of setting up an espresso and finding the perfect recipe meaningless.

As for the Australian lungo, it was invented at the World Barista Championship by Matt Perger, who competed for Australia and subsequently became the 2013 World Barista Champion. Perger introduced his lungo as a signature drink, and now he is known to a wide audience as the Australian lungo. He decided to make black coffee with a volume of about 200 milliliters, but at the same time violate all the canons of espresso: take a light roast coffee, coarse grinding and a long pour.
What is the point? We take coarse ground coffee, roasted under the filter, and put it in the portafilter basket. It turns out very dense and rich in taste black coffee, prepared many times faster than filter coffee (Australian lungo is brewed in an average of 30 seconds). Such a drink turns out to be denser than hario and aeropress, and somewhat richer in taste.

There is more caffeine in lungo than in espresso and ristretto, the extraction time is up to 1 minute, which explains the increased bitterness. If you want to cheer up in the morning - choose lungo.

Doppio is just an Italian word meaning "double".
However, avid coffee lovers should be aware that doppio is one of their favorite drinks.
The doppio coffee recipe is simple. For preparation, you need the same ingredients as for espresso coffee, but 2 times more.
The process of making doppio coffee is no different from making espresso coffee. And the result is a cup of aromatic double coffee with double the amount of caffeine and with the new name doppio.
Doppio coffee is often confused with lungo coffee. But their fundamental difference lies in the fact that lungo is prepared from one serving of ground coffee, but with double the amount of water. And the taste of drinks is absolutely not similar.
Doppio tastes like regular espresso, while lungo has a slightly burnt and bitter taste.
These 2 types of coffee have a large amount of caffeine: due to the long passage of water through one serving of ground coffee, more caffeine and other sparingly soluble substances get into the "lungo"; and doppio gets its dose of caffeine from a double shot of ground coffee.