When it comes to Moka pots, of course the most classic brand - Bialetti coffee pot is indispensable. It not only has a beautiful shape, but also comes in many bright and colorful colors, suitable for every home user who wants to make homemade coffee.
The coffee produced by the Moka pot has a distinct "Italian family style". Although it is not as mellow as espresso, it is also different from the low-concentration taste of Pour over(V60) coffee and French press coffee. If used properly, you can also get a good-tasting Moka pot American or Moka pot latte. For those who are new to the Bilotti Moka Pot, apart from not knowing which one to choose, the biggest worry is basically not knowing how to pick coffee beans.
Although theoretically all coffee beans can be extracted with a Moka pot, if you want to make it taste good, you have to put some effort into screening. Because the Moka pot is a pressurized extraction method, medium to dark roasted coffee beans store more carbon dioxide and derive rich caramelization substances, which allows the coffee liquid to have more oil and a higher mellow taste without showing an irritating sour taste. Correspondingly, making black coffee or milk coffee will be more delicious.
Note that no matter which method you choose, the coffee beans must be fresh enough. After roasting, the coffee beans will have a best tasting period of 4 to 45 days. After this time, the aroma of the coffee begins to plummet. You need to drink it as soon as possible, otherwise only the woody and bitter taste will be left, and the brewed coffee will not taste good. For this reason, Front Street Coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days, and enjoy 24-hour delivery after placing an order, ensuring that everyone can enjoy the delicious taste after receiving it.
To sum up, when using a Bialetti Moka Pot to make coffee, you should give priority to medium-dark roasted fresh coffee beans. For those who pursue cost-effectiveness and rich oils, you can give priority to Italian blended coffee beans; if you like coffee with outstanding flavor, buy single-origin SOE Italian coffee beans.
1. Front Street. Full-bodied and fragrant Italian espresso Moka pot coffee beans - Front Street classic blended coffee beans: Making Moka pot coffee can easily extract rich oils, exuding the aroma of butter, toast, hazelnuts, and caramel. Adding milk has a smooth taste. Making Moka pot American style is very refreshing, glycol and acid-free. It is also suitable for home users and coffee shops.
2. Front Street. The Italian Moka Pot coffee beans recommended by many baristas - Front Street Black Cocoa Blend Coffee Beans: Because Yunnan arabica coffee and Brazilian Cerato coffee are selected, the Moka Pot brewed has mixed nuts, cream, chocolate, The soft flavor of plums, low acidity, smooth and balanced taste of milk coffee, and stable performance in all aspects make it very suitable for novices to try as an entry-level product. It is also very cost-effective, so it is also the first choice for family users who pursue "large quantities and full meals" and those who plan to open a store.
When you have determined the beans, we need to grind them. The grinding degree of the Moka pot will be much finer than that of Pour over(V60) coffee, and a little coarser than that of Italian grinding! In short, it is as thin as possible, but it cannot fall into the gap of the powder trough, because this will prevent the coffee liquid from coming up (because the Moka pot does not have enough air pressure to break through the resistance of the powder cake), and it is easy to cause the risk of explosion caused by poor pressure relief! .
(The left side of the picture shows hand grinding, the picture shows Moka pot grinding, and the right side of the picture shows Italian grinding)
After grinding it, the next step is to fill it with powder! This is another step in stress control! Generally, we will choose the amount of coffee powder based on the size of the Moka pot we use. So the Moka pot used here at Front Street is a three-person Moka pot, which requires about 19g of coffee powder for filling!
It can be seen that the height of the powder bed is higher than the groove, so at this time many friends will choose to press it with their hands and wait first! We smooth it out first, then tap it sideways and tap it left and right to evenly distribute the coffee powder in the lower layer! This way the gap is smaller and can effectively reduce the channel effect!
Then you can choose to press according to your grinding degree. If the grinding is slightly coarse, you can use your fingers to press down lightly when smoothing to increase resistance and allow better formation of grease! If the grinding is slightly fine, there is no need to press, because the resistance is already enough, and it is ready to be put into the pot and boiled!
After pressing, pour 110ml hot water into the lower pot, then install the powder trough and the upper pot in order and start brewing coffee!
Once the grease has covered the silver surface on the bottom of the moka pot, remove it from the heat.
The residual temperature is enough to extract all the remaining liquid.
Then, you will get a cup of Moka pot coffee with thick oil. If your Moka pot is a double valve, the oil will be richer. Don’t wait, just make any coffee and start enjoying it.
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
