Caffè Crema

Also Schümli, Schümli-Kaffee, café crème (CH)

A long coffee brewed on an espresso machine with a coarser grind, topped with crema. The everyday café coffee of Switzerland and much of Germany.

EspressoServed hotFrom Switzerland

Volume
150ml5.1 US fl oz
Espresso
1shot
Caffeine
64mgderived, USDA FDC
Glass
Mug200 ml

The build

Watch it made, step by step
Mug, 200 ml. Layers in pouring order from the bottom, drawn by volume.
  1. Espresso150 ml100%
Volume
150ml
Caffeine
64mg
Espresso
1shot

Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.

Roughly 1:10 coffee to beverage, pulled through an espresso machine with a coarser grind so it stays smooth; it is the default 'coffee' in Swiss and German cafés.

Caffeine

Derived
64mg

in a 150 ml caffè crema

Derived per shot: USDA FoodData Central FDC 171891 (espresso, restaurant-prepared) lists 212 mg per 100 g; a standard 30 g shot is about 63.6 mg, times 1 shot(s). Real values vary with dose, roast and species (robusta roughly doubles it).

USDA FoodData Central record 171891 · read 2026-10-26

A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.

Variants by country

2
NameCountryHow it differs
lungoItalyShorter, same dose.
café allongéFranceEspresso lengthened with water.

History

Popular account

Wikidata classes caffè crema as a coffee drink and lists it as a part of espresso. It replaced the lungo in Swiss cafés from the 1980s (popular account).

Switzerland, southern Germany and Austria; a long espresso-machine coffee.

Popular account

Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.

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