Brent Kearney

A Caffeine Avalanche : The Canadiano

Posted on: November 12th, 2006 @ 12:03

caffiene.jpg Some mornings you just need that extra jolt of stimulation that comes with a double-Americano from your local coffee shop. There are other mornings, however, when even that won’t do the trick. Cafés here in Banff have come up with the solution: the atomic bomb of coffee beverages, the Canadiano. One café, to be consistent with the local ski culture, calls it the “caffeine avalanache”.

A Canadiano is just like an Americano, except that instead of adding hot water to the espresso, drip-coffee is added. Most patrons order it in the large cup. Zing!

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  • Rich

    so, you take espresso–which is a superior method of brewing coffee–and add to it drip coffee–which is one of the most inferior methods of brewing coffee–just above percolator brew–all for enhancing the amount of caffeine in your cup?

    why not just double or triple the espresso? wouldn’t that be preferable to adding swill to your nectar?

  • http://brent.kearneys.ca Brent

    Not many people share your reverence for espresso and disdain for drip coffee, Rich. The thing about drip coffee is that it has a different nature than espresso: it takes longer to wake you up, but the “buzz” stays around longer. Espresso hits you quicker, but then you also crash sooner. Adding more espresso would intensify the buzz & worsen the crash.

    I’ve never actually tried a “Canadiano”. I have an espresso or drip coffee, depending on my mood, or how much time I have.

  • Sanvich

    This drink is also called a Black Eye or a Red Eye, black being two shots of espresso and red being one shot. The thing is, most people who have visited a Starbucks have had this drink already, just with a slight variation. Some variations of the Frappucino are coffee blended with a shot of espresso. Don’t believe me? I’m appalled. Look it up. ;P

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