The Moka pot is one of the earliest household coffee appliances invented. The Moka pot is a short-time high-pressure extraction device, and the coffee liquid is espresso.moka pot coffeeIt is also very simple to operate, which can not only satisfy our nostalgia for retro, but also meet our needs for coffee. But from time to time, Moka pots still produce bitter, overly strong, and insufficient flavor. So how to solve these problems? Today, let us analyze it from the aspects of bean selection, brewing, and tasting.
1. Try fresh medium-dark roast coffee beans
Because the Moka pot is a pressurized extraction method, it is easy to release the flavor of soybeans, which can even become a disadvantage. If the Moka pot uses lightly roasted coffee beans, the coffee produced will be thin in fat and highly acidic. Adding water or milk may also be strange.
Medium-dark roasting will bring more caramelization reactions to the coffee beans and produce more gas. If you want to make Moka pot coffee with a balanced taste, mellow body, and oil, it is recommended to choose freshly roasted coffee beans with medium roasting or medium-dark roasting.
There are many types of coffee beans used in Moka pots, which can be roughly divided into blended coffee and single-origin coffee. Single-origin coffee can have obvious flavor of the production area, while blended coffee has a higher cost performance and can become a daily ration.
① Front Street PWN Golden Mandheling SOE Coffee
Reasons for recommendation: The sweet aroma of pine wood, dark chocolate, herbs, and caramel makes the Moka pot coffee creamy, mellow in taste, and low in acid.
② Brazilian Queen Manor SOE Coffee on Qian Street
Reason for recommendation: The flavors of roasted nuts, cream, and chocolate are obvious, with the sweetness of sugar cane, a balance of sourness and bitterness, and a clean flavor.
③ Front Street black cocoa blend (100% Arabica) Italian style
Reason for recommendation: It has a balanced taste and nutty chocolate aroma, stable flavor, and extremely cost-effective. It can be used in moka pots and home coffee machines.
④ Front Street classic blend with Italian style
Reason for recommendation: The aroma of caramel and dark chocolate is obvious, the aftertaste is clear, low in acid, rich and delicate in oil, and suitable for home and store use.
2. Use enough coffee powder
How to judge whether it is filled with coffee powder? You can do this: fill the empty grinder trough of the Moka pot with coffee beans, then add the coffee beans in the empty grinder trough to the grinder for grinding, and finally pour all the ground coffee powder into the grinder trough. If some powder cannot be filled in, you can bump the powder trough on the table to ensure that the remaining powder is filled into the powder trough.
Filling the powder trough is also to avoid extracting bad imperfect flavors. Because when the density of the coffee powder in the powder trough is closer, it will not cause some coffee powder to be over-extracted or some to be under-extracted, resulting in uneven flavor or bitterness. If every coffee powder can be extracted evenly and just right, the flavor of the cup of coffee will be more complete and there will not be too many defects.
3. Test of grinding degree
We all know that one of the most important points in making coffee is to accurately grind the coffee beans. This is also the most tangled question for everyone. What is the appropriate grinding thickness? How many degrees does my grinder need to grind?
The Moka pot is designed to extract at high temperature and pressure, so the coffee liquid itself will be richer overall, so it cannot be ground directly to a level close to Italian style, otherwise it will easily become clogged or over-extracted, resulting in a bitter taste. Of course, don't grind the coffee powder too coarsely, otherwise the taste will be thin, the flavor will be lost, and it will only have a bitter taste. It will be a pity for the beans and a pity for the equipment. We can refer to the gap in the powder trough. As long as it does not fall, adjust it as finely as possible to meet the extraction requirements. When you first learn to use a Moka pot, you may need to try a few times to find the technique, so don't be discouraged.
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
