Technically speaking, due to functional limitations, the Moka pot cannot make espresso like an espresso machine, but the Moka pot can easily make a cup of freshly ground espresso base at home at a lower cost, and then turn it into a full-flavored Americano or latte. If you want to use a Moka pot to make strong coffee, you must start with a bag of fresh and high-quality coffee beans.
Because the Moka pot is a pressurized extraction method, it is easy to release the flavor of the soybeans, which can even become a disadvantage. If the Moka pot uses lightly roasted coffee beans, the coffee produced will have thin fat and strong acidity. Adding water or milk may also be strange, so we recommend using medium-dark roasted coffee beans.
If you want to enjoy the rich flavor of Moka pot coffee, we recommend medium roasted single-origin coffee beans.
If you like the aroma of nuts and cocoa, it is recommended to choose Front Street Brazilian Queen Manor; if you like the toasty flavor and balanced taste, you can buy Front Street PNG Bird of Paradise coffee beans. The characteristics of these two single-origin beans are balanced, rich nutty notes and sweetness like sucrose.
If you want a richer caramel aroma and strong taste, you can choose coffee beans with a deeper roasting degree. Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling coffee beans, which are famous for their spices and woody flavors, have a special herbal aroma and are also very suitable for use in Moka pots.
If you don’t want your coffee to be too monotonous, you can also use some coffee beans with fermented fruity and floral aromas. Here we recommend the recently popular Front Street Strawberry Candy Italian Coffee Beans.This is a espresso made from two major origins: Costa Rica Tara beads, which are famous for their honey processing, and Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. On this basis, coupled with Colombian coffee beans, the espresso that can be prepared is not only non-irritating, but when extracted by the coffee machine, it has good oil and dense texture, and at the same time has a sweet and sour taste like strawberry gummy.
Before choosing any kind of coffee beans, we also need to ensure that the coffee beans are fresh to make the Moka pot coffee more fragrant.First of all, choose a product that has a clearly marked roasting date (not an expiration date or shelf life), a professional coffee roasting brand that is reputable and emphasizes fresh roasting. We recommend Front Street Coffee, a long-established store in Guangzhou.
Every pack of coffee beans sold at Front Street is packaged with a one-way exhaust valve and roasted for 5 days to ensure that every pack of coffee beans reaches customers in the freshest state. The reason why Front Street places so much emphasis on fresh roasting is because as time goes by, coffee roasted for more than 50 days will basically lose its aroma, so no matter how expensive the coffee beans are brewed, it will not taste good, so it is recommended that everyone drink it as soon as possible within the appreciation period.
If we have purchased coffee beans and want to quickly tell whether they are fresh, we can refer to the method on the street: after unpacking, smell the coffee beans or ground coffee powder deeply. If you smell a strong and pleasant aroma, it means the coffee beans are fresh enough; if the aroma is weak, it means that it may have been stored for a long time and needs to be drunk as soon as possible. However, if it not only has no fragrance, but has even begun to smell greasy, it means that the coffee beans are no longer fresh. Please note that the greasy smell I am talking about here refers to the smell, not the form. Coffee powder that has been left for too long is more of a smoky feeling in the kitchen.
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
