Using a Moka pot to make black coffee without milk is a daily routine for many coffee connoisseurs. But it is also a "black coffee". If you take the blending route and the single product route, you will get two completely different experiences. This article explains the bean selection logic of the two routes thoroughly.
Route One: Blended Beans—Born for Pressure Extraction
The Moka pot is a pressure extraction machine and has the same origin as the Italian machine. The performance of this type of extraction method has been considered from the beginning of the bean blend design, and the stability and error tolerance are better.
Front Street classic blend: traditional mamba recipe, specially designed for Italian and Moka pots. It is rich in oil and fat. The brewed black coffee is mellow and full of body, with the aftertaste of cocoa and caramel at the bottom of the cup.
Front Street Dark Cocoa Blend: 100% Arabica, mellow and smooth, affordable, suitable for heavy users who want to cook a pot every day.
Front Street Premium Blend: Brazilian Cerato and Colombian Whelan, a store recipe from the past ten years. The flavor is classic and long-lasting, and the black coffee has an excellent balance.
Front Street Commercial Blending: The formula has been optimized for cost, the taste is guaranteed, and it is a practical choice in large-scale consumption scenarios.
Route 2: Single-origin beans—drink the character of the place of origin
Single-origin beans are cooked in a Moka pot, and the flavor of the place of origin will be amplified by pressure extraction for even more impact.
Front Street Brazilian Queen's Manor: sweet with nuts, cocoa and caramel, low acidity and smooth, it is a "safe brand" in the single product that is suitable for moka pots.
Front Street PWN Indonesian Gold Mandheling: Deeply roasted and low in acid, the aroma of herbs and dark chocolate is particularly full under pressure extraction, suitable for lovers of heavy-flavored black coffee.
Front Street Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise: Typica variety, grown in volcanic rock soil, AA grade standard, with a clean taste and outstanding sweetness. It has a Little Blue Mountain-style balance when cooked in a Moka pot.
How to choose
Drink regularly every day and pursue stability → blending route; slow down and want to drink something different on weekends → single product route. Beginners are advised to start with the Classic Blend or the Brazilian Queen's Estate, both of which are low-risk choices. Once cooked, you can explore more personalized styles such as Mandheling and Bird of Paradise.
a common premise
No matter which route you take, when making black coffee in a Moka pot, it is recommended to use fresh whole beans and grind them before drinking. Black coffee does not have the "bottom" of milk, and the freshness defects of the beans will be directly drank out - drinking the beans within about a week or two weeks is the window period for the flavor to be online.
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
