"Mocha" is named after the port of Mocha in Yemen. For hundreds of years starting in the 15th century, all coffee beans were concentrated in the port of Mocha, from where they were exported across the Red Sea to various places. Since then, the Port of Mocha has become the hub of the coffee world.
Since the sacks containing the coffee beans were all printed with the "MOCHA" mark to prove that they were transported from the Port of Mocha, Europeans collectively called the delicious coffee beans shipped from the Port of Mocha "Mocha coffee". This also explains why Mocha became synonymous with coffee in the early days. Mocha coffee beans are famous for their small size and strong aroma. After being deeply roasted, they have strong sour and mellow taste, moderate sweetness and rich chocolate flavor.
The Italian mocha coffee we call today can be traced back to Italy in the 18th century. At that time, because the Netherlands brought coffee to Southeast Asia and France brought coffee to South America, the Port of Mocha lost its monopoly on coffee. In addition, under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-to-late period, Mocha beans became a scarce product in Europe.
In order to imitate the chocolate flavor in mocha coffee beans, some people try to add cocoa powder to coffee. Later, with the emergence of espresso machines and espresso-based fancy coffee becoming popular around the world, this chocolate-added milk coffee also became an important part of the Italian menu. So, how to make an authentic cup of mocha coffee? Next, please come to Front Street and study hard~
To make a hot mocha with a dense texture and rich cocoa flavor, we must not only pay attention to the raw materials responsible for providing the chocolate flavor, but also choose the right espresso beans to match them. How to perfectly blend the two with the milk during production is also critical.
There are many cocoa products on the market that can provide chocolate flavor for coffee, such as chocolate sauce, sugar-free pure cocoa powder, pure dark chocolate blocks, milk chocolate blocks, cocoa butter chocolate chips, etc. The prices range from a few yuan to hundreds. Each product has different chocolate flavor, solubility, and texture. You can choose according to your own budget and preferences.
Among them, chocolate sauce is widely used in cafe stores because of its sweetness, high cost performance, and long-term storage. It can add chocolate flavor to espresso coffee and can also be used as an auxiliary "tool" for carving. However, due to the thick texture of this type of chocolate sauce, it will easily harden if placed in a low temperature environment, and it will not be fully integrated into the Espresso and milk foam after stirring. The resulting hot mocha will sometimes have a grainy texture.
If you use sugar-free pure cocoa powder and dark chocolate chunks, you will need to add additional sugar according to your own taste to make Italian mocha coffee. In addition, the powder needs to be added with hot water in advance and stirred evenly before it can be mixed with Espresso. The milk chocolate blocks used in Front Street here are melted by throwing them together with the packaging on the coffee machine and heating them until they become liquid and ready for use.
As for the coffee beans chosen for espresso, it is recommended to use medium-dark roasted types with obvious nutty flavor. It can be a single product with a clear flavor or a mellow and solid blend.
For single-origin Italian coffee beans, the first choices are Front Street Queen’s Manor Brazil, Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling, and Front Street PNG Bird of Paradise;
There are four types of Italian bean blends that feature nuts, caramel, dark chocolate, and cream flavors, including Front Street Boutique Blend, Front Street Commercial Blend, Front Street Classic Blend, and Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend. Because the fat is very rich and the taste is mellow, it also goes well with milk chocolate, making the taste of hot mocha even better.
After the milk foam, chocolate, and Italian extraction are all prepared, the next step is to fully integrate the three.
Preparation materials: double extraction of Espresso, 200 grams of refrigerated fresh milk, 20 grams of chocolate chunks melted in advance, a handful of chocolate chips/cocoa powder, and a coffee cup with a capacity of 200 to 300 ml. If you are still a sweet tooth, you can also add marshmallows or cream like Front Street.
1. First pour the melted chocolate syrup into a ceramic cup, use 20 grams of Nuanyang coffee powder to extract 37 grams of concentrated coffee liquid, and stir evenly while it is hot;
2. Beat 200 grams of fresh milk to hot milk foam at about 50-55°C, squeak for 4-5 times before entering the beating stage;
3. Use a spoon to scoop out a spoonful of the upper milk foam, and draw a circle in the espresso mixed with chocolate, making a white solid circle as shown in the picture;
4. Pour all the remaining hot milk foam from the milk vat into the coffee cup from the center until the cup is full;
5. Finally enter the decoration stage, put 2 fat white marshmallows on top lightly, sprinkle with cocoa powder or chocolate chips, and then lightly bake them with a gun to make them brown. Cup after cup of warm fu fu~ hot mocha is done.
However, whenever the hot summer comes, many greedy friends prefer the refreshing taste of iced mocha to hot drink mocha coffee. In fact, the materials needed to make ice mocha are also not complicated: double espresso + chocolate sauce + 200 grams of fresh milk + ice cubes.
First prepare a transparent glass, cover the wall with chocolate sauce, add ice cubes and half the milk, then mix 10 grams of chocolate sauce into the extracted espresso and pour in. Then use a French press to beat the other half of the iced milk, scrape off any large bubbles floating on the surface and pour until the cup is nearly full.
Finally, use chocolate sauce to carve patterns, and a cup of fragrant and sweet iced mocha is completed.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
