Espresso is a great way to amplify the characteristics of your favorite coffee. Using pressure to force hot water through finely-ground, compacted coffee, espresso is more concentrated than coffee brewed using other methods. While espresso has more caffeine per-unit volume than most other coffee drinks, because of its smaller serving size, the total caffeine content is actually lower than a standard cup of coffee.

Our Espresso

HOLOGRAM

TASTING NOTES
FRUITY • MILK CHOCOLATE • SYRUPY

Hologram’s recipe always includes a natural sundried coffee. Naturally sundried coffees have punchy fruit notes and a fuller body and those are some of the primary flavors of Hologram.

Our Decaf Espresso

SLOW MOTION

TASTING NOTES
MOLASSES • COCOA • SMOOTH

Slow Motion Counter Culture pays extra attention to decaf because people love it solely for its flavor.

A Look into our espresso based beverages

At Austin’s, we do not use cup sizes; rather, size is dependent on a traditional specialty coffee method of “milk to espresso ratio”.

With these ratios, we combine housemade syrups and recipes to make what we call our “Trade school” beverages. Here is a look at all of our on-bar beverages

How we make Espresso based beverages

Until we feel you are ready to be trained on-bar; here is a peek into how we craft espresso based beverages. Watching these videos will help you better understand the detail that goes into every espresso-based beverage. This will also help you confidently have meaningful conversations with customers about how we make our beverages.

Pulling an Espresso

While we won’t be brewing the amazing Stumptown’s Hair Bender, this is a great look into how espressos are pulled.

Also please note, each espresso is as a different input, out coffee will have a different input than this video.

Steaming milk & a little introduction into milk theory

On a very cool side note, Chris Baca is a legend in the specialty coffee community worldwide and he happens to drop-in to austin’s every once in a while for a good cup of joe.