Italians are accustomed to using Moka pots to brew coffee at home. The picture is very pleasing to the eye. It can be seen that Italians are very particular about coffee and regard it as an art of food.
Coffee was imported to Italy by the Arabs in the 16th century. The local people loved it very much. Soon after, the brewed "Italian coffee" was born. Venice became the center of European coffee. Both roasting and transportation passed through here. Cafes began to line the streets and alleys. Italians became "addicted" to coffee. The most famous café in Europe at the time, "Florian", is still in its original location in 1720. Napoleon even hailed the square where it was located as "the most beautiful square in Europe."
Recommended oil-rich moka pot coffee beans
Since the coffee brewed by the Moka pot will be thicker, and the darker roasted coffee can just reflect that mellow feeling, it is recommended to use medium-dark roasted or dark roasted beans for production:
① Front Street.PWN Golden Mandheling
Reason for recommendation: Taste high-grade Mandheling, which has the aroma of dark chocolate, caramel, spices, herbs, and pine wood, and is rich in oil.
② Front Street. Brazilian Queen’s Manor
Reason for recommendation: The nutty aroma is obvious, the flavor is chocolate, cream, cocoa, sucrose, the sourness is soft, and the oil is delicate.
③ Front Street. Columbia Cymbidium
Reason for recommendation: Sugar-free chocolate has a rich aroma and thick fat, and is suitable for making American and milk coffee.
④ Front Street Classic Italian Pairing
Reasons for recommendation: Traditional coffee aroma, caramel and chocolate flavors, deep fat and tasteSweet and mellow.
⑤ Qian Street Commercial Italian Pairing
Reasons for recommendation: high cost performance, very rich in oil, stable taste, light acidity, and dense aroma.
Illustration of how a Moka pot works
Step 1: Pour water into the bottom pot and bring to a boil.
Step 2: Place the ground coffee powder into the upper slot.
Step 3: When the hot water in the lower layer boils, due to pressure, it is forced to the upper area containing coffee powder, and then the brewed coffee flows out from the upper water outlet.
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
