Moka pot tips:
-Most people will tell you grind barely coarser than espresso. I found best results with a coarser grind, in fact, my french press (FP) and moka pot grind is the same, though I'm a bit unorthodox.
-USE BOILING WATER. This makes by far the biggest difference for me. There is a video of a Hungarian third wave coffee shop where they figured out how to get a thermocouple right in the coffee cake, and they found that the water temp through the grounds was actually cooler than if you start off with cold water in the moka pot and let it boil on the stovetop.
-Take the moka pot off the stove when it's about 1/2 to 2/3 full, there's enough momentum for the pot to go the rest of the way, and you don't want the tail end of the pot, anyways. You could even go so far as putting the bottom of the moka pot in cold water to stop brewing even faster.
I actually enjoyed using my moka pot for americanos for a while, perhaps I'll go back to that once my current infatuation with FP wears off.