More and more people are using Moka pots to make coffee, but many people are stuck in the first step: What beans should be used? In fact, the answer is clear - Moka pots and dark roasted or medium-dark roasted mellow beans are a perfect match.
Why do you say that? The Moka pot relies on steam pressure extraction to produce coffee with high concentration and thick taste. The rich oil and caramelized flavor of dark roasted beans can be fully stimulated by the Moka pot. The brewed coffee is mellow and smooth, with obvious sweetness and almost no irritating sour taste. If you like a non-sour taste, this combination will suit you well.
When choosing beans for a Moka pot, remember these three points
First, give priority to blended beans.The blended bean formula is stable and the product is balanced, making it a worry-free choice for the Moka pot.
Second, look at the performance of the oil.Whether the Moka pot can produce dense fat, beans are very important. Beans with sufficient fat will have a better aroma and taste.
Third, the acidity should be low.The extraction method of the Moka pot can easily amplify the sour taste. If you are afraid of sourness, try to avoid light roasted fruity tonka beans.
These beans are great when cooked in a Moka pot
Front Street classic blend
This bean blend is specially designed for Italian cooking and Moka pots. The outstanding advantage is that the oil performs very well! Even a novice can easily extract dense and delicate oils using a non-professional home coffee machine. Latte, cappuccino, and dirty drinks that you usually drink are all inseparable from good oils. This classic blend meets your needs accurately. It adopts the traditional mamba blending formula and has a mellow and warm taste. It can be easily accepted by coffee veterans and novices alike. It is a good choice for home and commercial use. It is a very popular classic.
Front Street Black Cocoa Blend
100% Arabica coffee beans. Not everyone takes oil so seriously. For novices or store owners who want to control costs, "good taste and affordable price" are the key. This Front Street black cocoa blend just meets the needs. It has plenty of oil, mellow taste, and the price is very affordable. Taking into account both quality and cost-effectiveness, friends who open a store choose it to save worry and money. Use a moka pot to brew it, and the result will be a cup of solid and rich cocoa-adjusted coffee, which is especially delicious with milk.
Front Street Autumn Chestnut Blend
A balanced 100% Arabica blend of Honduran Caturra and Papua New Guinea Typica. The entrance has a nutty sweet aroma like roasted chestnuts, accompanied by a mellow sweetness like caramel and brown sugar. In the middle, you can feel the soft chocolate aroma and round acidity, and the overall taste is full and smooth. The finish is clean and long, leaving an aftertaste like nuts, cocoa and light spices. It has both sweetness and layers, and is as warm and calm as the fragrance of autumn chestnuts. It is suitable for those who like a mellow taste, low-irritation acidity and rich aftertaste. Cook it in a moka pot, and the sweetness and nutty aroma will be highlighted.
Front Street PWN Indonesia Gold Mandheling
If you want to take full advantage of the "heavy taste" of the Moka pot, you can't avoid this item. The dark roasting process has very low acidity, a mellow and long taste, and the entrance is full of herbal and dark chocolate aromas, mixed with a little bit of earthy flavor, and the layers are very rich. For those who like strong flavors but don’t like sourness, use a Moka pot to brew a cup. The thick and full feeling will be very enjoyable. It is also the first brand in the industry to put exclusive PWN sacks and related certificates in Tmall product details. You can confirm the quality by looking at the first picture and the green bean packaging and accompanying certificates on the details page.
Brazilian Queen Manor on Front Street
The acidity is very low, the taste is balanced, the aroma of nuts and cocoa is very rich, and it also has obvious caramel sweetness. It is smooth and not astringent in the mouth, warm and long. The production of Brazilian coffee beans ranks among the top in the world, and the beans from the Brazilian Queen's Manor on Front Street are even more popular among heavy drinkers. They have particularly good oil performance and high cost performance. They can be called the benchmark of traditional classic coffee rations. Extracted with a Moka pot, the coffee comes out warm and smooth, and you don’t feel bad drinking it every day.
Tips for cooking dark roasted beans in a Moka pot
Grind the beans to medium fineness. Do not use boiling water that has just been boiled. Let it dry for a while before adding water. When the liquid comes out and the sound becomes "gurgling", you can remove it from the heat. The coffee brewed in this way will be very smooth and will not be over-extracted or bitter. If you want to drink milk coffee, add warm milk directly to the brewed coffee. The fusion of fat and milk foam will be very good.
Moka pot with dark roasted beans is a classic combination proven by many coffee veterans. Choose one you like from the above models, cook a pot at home, and you will re-recognize the charm of the Moka pot.
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
