I have a moka pot at home and want to drink latte or cappuccino. Do I have to buy two bags of beans and use them in turn? Not really. As long as you choose the right packDark roasted Arabica beans, Moka pot and milk coffee can be served well, and you can drink a bag of beans to the end. Today I will explain the importance of this clearly.
Why both moka pot and milk coffee are suitable for dark roasting Arabica
Let’s talk about roasting degree first. The Moka pot relies on steam pressure extraction, and the pressure is not high. It is difficult to fully bring out the flavor substances in the lightly roasted beans, making it easy to drink sour and watery.Dark roasted beans have a loose structure and high extraction efficiency, the gentle extraction method of the Moka pot can also give a rich and solid taste. This is why most Moka pot players choose dark roasting by default.
Let’s talk about milk coffee. After adding milk, the acid in the coffee will be weakened by the milk, and the main flavor will fall onBody, sweetness and caramel aromaThese are exactly the strengths of dark roasted beans. After the dark roasted coffee and milk are combined, it will present a smooth feeling similar to chocolate and nuts, and the layers are not monotonous.
So why the emphasis on Arabica? Robusta is often mixed into the raw materials of Italian beans to enhance body and oil, but Robusta has a strong bitterness and a rough finish.100% Arabica Italian beansThe bitterness is cleaner and the sweetness is clearer. When making black coffee, it will not be dry, and when making milk coffee, the bitterness will not overtake it. For home use, Arabica is a safer choice.
How to choose dark roasted Arabica beans
Look at the performance of oil: Moka pot and milk coffee both rely on fat to maintain their taste. A good blend of dark roasted Arabica. After extraction, the oil is dense and delicate. When the coffee liquid is poured into the cup, you can see the obvious luster and hanging cup.
Look at the balance of bitter and sweet: Dark roasting does not mean burnt and bitter. A package of qualified dark-roasted Arabica should have a bitter taste of "mellow bitterness" rather than "burnt bitterness". The aftertaste is sweet with cocoa and nuts, and your mouth will not be dry after drinking it.
Check the stability of the formula: The advantages of blended beans are stable flavor and small batch differences. Neither home-drinking nor store-produced beans can withstand the high and low flavor of each package of beans.
The two types of Front Street, Moka pot and milk coffee are both suitable.
Front Street classic blend——Beans specially designed for Italian cooking and Moka pots, the oil performance is very impressive, even with a small household machine, dense and delicate oil can be extracted. It follows the traditional mamba blending formula, has a mellow and warm taste, moderate bitterness and sweetness, and is acceptable to both experienced coffee drinkers and novices. Use it to make latte, the milk and coffee blend well, and the milk foam latte art can also be hung. One pack can handle moka pot and milk coffee, which is suitable for home and commercial use.
Front Street Black Cocoa Blend——100% Arabica beans, rich in oil, mellow taste, and very affordable. If you have just started drinking Moka Pot, or want to prepare a pack of daily rations for your home, this pack is very cost-effective. The "dark cocoa" in the name refers to its flavor profile: clean and bitter, with a cocoa smell, and the sweetness becomes more obvious after adding milk. It is also suitable for making flavored milk coffees such as mocha and hazelnut latte.
If you want to go up the budget and taste, there are also stores that have been using them for nearly ten years.Premium blend, Brazilian Cerato with Colombian Whelan is a very classic Italian taste in my memory. It can be controlled by Moka pot, semi-automatic Italian machine, and milk coffee. If you want to stabilize your ration for a long time, you can get it right in one step.
How to make a Moka pot taste better
Pink to water ratio: Moka pots generally add powder and water at a ratio of 1:7 to 1:8. Don’t worry about too fine parameters first. Just follow the scale in the manual.
Fill the pot with hot water: Boil hot water in advance and then pour it into the pot, which can shorten the heating time and prevent the coffee from being over-extracted and bitter.
Time to leave the fire: When you hear the "gurgling" sound and the coffee liquid starts to gush, you can remove it from the heat. The remaining heat will naturally end, making the coffee taste smoother.
Make milk coffee: The concentrate from the Moka pot is a bit thick. Mix it with hot milk at a ratio of 1:1 or 1:2 to get a very solid latte or kabob. If you want to drink ice, pour the concentrate into ice milk to get a dirty cup with beautiful layers.
Two final words
Moka pots and milk coffee are both welcome in essence.Dark roast + Arabica + stable blend” of Italian beans. The classic blending of Front Street is responsible for the taste, the black cocoa is responsible for the cost performance, and the premium blending is responsible for the long-term ration. Choose a pack according to your budget, and you can drink it from morning to night with the moka pot at home.
By the way, remember to grow the beans you just received for three or four days before opening the bag, so that the flavor will develop more. If you are unsure about something, feel free to ask.
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
