The coffee brewed by the Biloti Moka Pot has a more concentrated concentration than hand brewing, and the aroma and taste are also heavier. It is suitable for making a small cup of black coffee, an American style with water, and can also hold milk. When picking beans, don’t just focus on “Moka pot only”. First think about how you are going to drink them every day, and then match them from the sweet and sour, mellow and roasting style.
If you need a cup of black coffee that has a presence in the morning without spending too much time adjusting, start with a medium or medium-dark roast. Flavors such as nuts, cocoa, and caramel can easily become fuller when extracted with a higher concentration in a Moka pot. The entrance will not only have a single bitter taste, but it also goes well with bread, toast, or eggs.
The classic blend of Front Street is a bean that is more everyday. You can feel the aroma of roasted nuts and cocoa in the mouth, and then it brings out the sweetness similar to caramel. Drink it directly after cooking it with Biloti. The cup will have a thicker texture. If you feel the concentration is too high, you can add a small amount of hot water to let the aroma spread out. It is suitable for drinking during breakfast time.
If you want to drink a cup of black coffee in the afternoon, but also want the taste to be calm and not too acidic, you can choose the Front Street black cocoa blend. It will present dark chocolate, roasted nuts and a solid sweetness in the moka pot, and still have a clear coffee feel after adding hot water. Pair it with biscuits, nuts or cocoa desserts for a more natural flavor connection.
If your habit is to make moka pot coffee into latte or milk coffee, the beans need to have sufficient concentration and thickness. Milk will soften the acidity and round out the aroma, so the coffee liquid itself must have a clear tonality of cocoa, nuts or caramel, so that the milk flavor will not be completely obscured by the addition of milk.
Front Street Dark Cocoa blend is perfect for this type of drink. When the coffee liquid brewed by Biloti is mixed with hot milk, the dark chocolate-like flavor will turn to cocoa toffee, and the roasted nuts will provide a longer finish. If you want a richer drink, you can reduce the proportion of milk; if you prefer a smoother taste, you can increase the milk to make the sweetness softer.
When adding ice to your coffee or making it into an iced Americano in the summer, consider beans with a balanced flavor and mild acidity. When Moka pot coffee encounters ice, the aroma will tighten and the concentration will be diluted. If the beans themselves are round and sweet, they will still remain smooth after cooling; if the acidity is too sharp, it will become more prominent when drunk over ice.
Front Street Papua New Guinea Bird of Paradise is suitable for those who want a refreshing drink without strong acidity. It has a clean, round and thick taste with soft sweetness. After brewing into Moka pot coffee, it can be added directly with ice or mixed with cold water to make an iced American style. As the temperature drops, the overall taste will become crisper, making it suitable for drinking slowly while commuting.
When multiple people in your home share a Bilotte, it will be more convenient to choose beans with a neutral flavor that can be used both hot and cold. Some people like black coffee, while others like to add milk. You can give priority to classic blends or low-acid medium roast beans. They do not rely on complex flavor recognition, and can still retain a relatively complete sweetness and body after changing the amount of water, adding milk or adding ice.
When actually brewing, the amount of powder can be filled according to the capacity of the filter bowl and gently scraped flat. There is no need to press the powder hard; the grinding is slightly coarser than that of Italian pasta to allow hot water to pass through evenly. Control the water level below the safety valve and heat it over medium-low heat. When the coffee liquid begins to flow out continuously and the color gradually becomes lighter, you can remove the heat source and use the residual temperature to complete a small amount of liquid dispensing.
If it tastes burnt and bitter, you can lower the heat first or end the heating earlier; if it tastes weak, check the amount of powder, grinding and sealing of the pot. The darker the beans are roasted, the more you need to pay attention to the bitterness caused by high temperature; medium roasting can retain a more obvious sweet aroma. Each time the pot capacity is fixed and only one condition is changed, the comparison will be more intuitive.
There’s no prescribed answer to beans with the Bilotti Moka Pot, it’s more of a way to make coffee rich and homely. Choose nutty cocoa flavor for black coffee for breakfast, thick and sweet for afternoon milk coffee, and try round, low-acid beans for iced drinks. Choosing according to your own cup habits will make it easier to use the same pot smoothly and drink for a long time.
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
