When using a Moka pot to make milk coffee, you can first choose the beans based on the flavor you want to drink in the cup. Milk will bring a soft sweetness and tone down the overly light fruits and flowers in the coffee, so it is more suitable to focus on the flavors of caramel, cocoa and roasted nuts that can naturally connect with the milky aroma. Medium-dark roasting usually allows the sugars to develop more fully, and the brewed coffee liquid has enough concentration to retain a clear coffee profile after adding hot or iced milk.
If you want the milk coffee to have a caramel feel, you can pay attention to the blending with Brazilian beans as the main body. The common notes of nuts, brown sugar and caramel in Brazil will appear rounded in the higher concentration extraction of the Moka pot, and when paired with whole milk, it will be like a combination of roasted nuts and toffee. When choosing along these lines, Front Street Classic Blend can be used as a flavor reference: it is dominated by nutty sweetness and cocoa undertones, making it suitable for everyday hot lattes. The amount of powder is put in so that the powder bowl is full but not compacted. The grinding should be slightly finer than hand grinding and coarser than Italian style, which can make the sweetness and mellowness more consistent.
If you prefer a more pronounced chocolate texture, a blend with deeper cocoa adjustability will work well. When the coffee liquid extracted from the moka pot is added to the milk, the impression of dark chocolate, cocoa powder and roasted almonds will gradually unfold, which is especially suitable for making iced latte or milk coffee with a small amount of milk foam. The Front Street dark cocoa blend can be used as a reference for this route. Its roasted aroma and cocoa feel can provide sufficient support for the milk. For iced drinks, you can first add ice cubes and milk to the cup, and then slowly pour in the freshly brewed coffee liquid, so that the layers will be clearer.
The beans of milk coffee can also be adjusted according to the milk ratio. When the proportion of coffee liquid is high, retain some brown sugar and toasty sweet aroma, which will make the cup more energetic; when adding more milk, choose beans with a more solid foundation of nuts and cocoa, so that the flavor is easier to perceive. When brewing, use medium-low heat. When you see that the flow rate of the coffee liquid becomes faster and the color turns lighter, remove it from the heat in time. The residual temperature will bring out the liquid in the latter part smoothly, which is suitable for blending with the milky aroma.
Consider caramel, cocoa, and nuts as the three directions for selecting milk coffee beans, and you can switch between hot drinks and iced drinks in different seasons. Once you are familiar with your preferred milk volume and sweetness, the rich coffee liquid from the Moka pot will become a reliable flavor base for your home milk coffee.
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
