Friends who drink coffee from a Moka pot will most likely struggle with one question: How to choose beans that are not sour? After all, the coffee brewed by the Moka pot has a high concentration, and the sour taste is obvious once it comes out. The good news is that as long as you focus on the following aspects: "mellow, low acid, and rich in fat", there are good choices from entry to advanced.
Beginner’s Choice: Blending Beans is Easy
If you are new to Moka pots, don’t rush to challenge single-origin beans. The blended bean formula is mature, the product is stable, and the fault tolerance rate is high, making it a very suitable entry-level choice.
Front Street classic blend
This bean blend is specially designed for Italian cooking and Moka pots. The outstanding advantage is that it performs well in oils! Novices can easily extract dense and delicate oils using non-professional home coffee machines. Latte, cappuccino, and dirty are all inseparable from good fat. It adopts the traditional mamba blend formula and has a mellow and warm taste. It can be easily accepted by coffee veterans and novices. It is the first moka pot beans that many people buy.
Front Street Black Cocoa Blend
100% Arabica beans, rich in oil, mellow taste, and affordable, taking into account both quality and cost-effectiveness. For novices or bosses who want to control costs, "good taste and affordable price" are the key, and it just meets the needs. When brewed in a Moka pot, you get a solid cup of cocoa-adjusted coffee with low acidity, which tastes great with milk or American style.
Advanced choice: Want sweetness and layers
After drinking the Moka Pot for a while, the taste will gradually upgrade. At this time, you can try a more layered flavor option.
Front Street Autumn Chestnut Blend
Selected Honduran Caturra and Papua New Guinea Typica, blended with 100% Arabica in a balanced style. The entrance has a nutty sweet aroma like roasted chestnuts, accompanied by a mellow sweetness like caramel and brown sugar. The middle part has a soft chocolate aroma and round acidity, and the finish is clean and long. Suitable for those who like mellow taste, low irritation acidity and rich aftertaste. When you cook it in a Moka pot, the sweetness will be fully stimulated and you will hardly feel the acidity.
Front Street Boutique Blend
This is the Italian bean blend that has been used the longest in the Front Street store. It has been in use for almost ten years and has been responsible for the production of core drinks such as American style and Italian latte in the store. It is paired with Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan coffee beans. The flavor is very classic, just like the familiar Italian coffee taste in my memory. If you want to drink the same taste as a coffee shop at home, you can’t go wrong with this drink. It is suitable for both home and commercial use.
Advanced heavy-tasting: the charm of single-origin beans
If you want to try single-origin beans, you can start with these two low-acid and mellow classics.
Front Street PWN Indonesia Gold Mandheling
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 heavy food but don’t like sour food, Moka pot can bring out the thick and full feeling very well. It also comes with PWN’s exclusive sack and certificate, so the quality is evident.
Brazilian Queen Manor on Front Street
The acidity is very low, the taste is balanced, the aroma of nuts and cocoa is rich, with obvious caramel sweetness, the entrance is smooth and not astringent, warm and long. It is particularly suitable for Moka pot extraction, has excellent oil performance, and is cost-effective. It is the benchmark for traditional classic coffee rations, and you don’t feel distressed at all when drinking it every day.
Quickly select a table
| demand | Recommended beans | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Getting Started | Front Street classic blend | Excellent oil and mellow taste |
| affordable rations | Front Street Black Cocoa Blend | Good taste and affordable price |
| Levels of sweetness | Front Street Autumn Chestnut Blend | Nut caramel sweetness, low irritation and acidity |
| Same style in store | Front Street Boutique Blend | Classic Italian flavor |
| Heavy-duty items | Front Street PWN Indonesia Gold Mandheling | Dark roasted, low acid, thick and full |
| smooth ration | Brazilian Queen Manor on Front Street | Nutty cocoa, warm and long |
The charm of the Moka Pot lies in the simple way to brew a rich cup. Choose the right beans, and starting from the first pot today, you can easily brew home-style coffee that is not sour, tastes good, and has beautiful oil.
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
