How To Store Coffee For Years & Tasting 1 Year Old Coffee
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- In this video we look at coffee store and unpack and brew some beans we packed a year ago. Super interesting results.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Hook
0:11 - Title B Roll
0:23 - Introduction
1:11 - Storage Method 1
1:23 - Storage Method 2
2:02 - Storage Method 3
2:21 - Storage Method 4
2:53 - Storage Method 5
3:49 - Storage Method 6
4:20 - Equipment
5:21 - Opening & Brewing
8:47 - Tasting 1 Year Old Coffee
9:58 - Wrap Up
The joy on your face when you took that first sip...priceless.
I actually think you missed the more obvious reason to freeze, buying in bulk! Whether it's buying the same bean to lower the unit price, or getting more bags to get free shipping, you can still make sure you're always drinking around peak.
Absolutely. I actually remembered that I missed this after hitting publish so will probably put it in a pinned comment.
Yeah, that's a lot of my motivation. There's also another method that's popular and not mentioned here: Using small (~50ml) tubes to freezer store individual doses of coffee airtight without vacuum. This has the advantage that you can grind directly out of the freezer (as the grinds are actual better with still-frozen coffee and you don't have to worry about ruining the rest of the beans in a bag by getting them wet with condensation). A popular economical answer for this is 50ml plastic centrifuge tubes.
@@australai oh yeah totally I have a set of those little ones myself lol. Makes single dosing a breeze. But it takes up a good chunk of freezer space, so it doesn't work out when I've got a packed freezer.
I buy coffee in a 5 pound bag directly from my favorite roaster. The last time I ordered was on August 26. My order arrived on the 31st. The bag did not have a roast date, but it did have a best by date of August 27, 2023. That means they roasted the coffee, shipped it to me, and I got it 4 days off roast. Shipping is a little steep, but hey - fresh coffee is worth it.
I opened the bag, got out my vacuum sealer and went to work. I labeled 10 bags and added 8 ounces to each one. I sealed each bag and threw half of them into my chest freezer. The other half went to a friend who goes through a lot of coffee with the help of his wife. 2.5 pounds should last me a couple of months. I have a Soulhand vacuum canister that I put my coffee in. It's battery operated and sucks the air out at the touch of a button. When it's just about empty, I pull a bag of coffee out of the freezer and leave it out overnight. It goes into the canister when the 'old' coffee runs out.
You can also submerge the zip lock bag with coffee in water to have similar affect of a vacuum sealer
could be dangerous, I mean if you accidentally get some water in. I wanna keep my coffee away from moisture until ready to brew!
This is a topic that fascinated me a while back and now I just feel that there's too much money involved in the freezing process unless you have something like a Best of Panama! In any case though, here's a few of my thoughts on resting in general since I've had a very different experience to be honest. Coffee in the first week is probably not set and just tastes different every time we brew it. The next week tends to be much better but again, the coffee doesn't taste consistent enough. However the window between 15 days to about 2 months is probably the best for me personally. Resting also depends on where the coffee is kept, the machine on which it was roasted and also the roast itself. Since my experience has been so different from the general consensus that we should be consuming coffee in a fortnight, I thought it might be interesting to share!
You’re validating a recommendation from George Howell. Nice. Gives me peace of mind to know it really works.
I store by vacuum sealing then freezing in a deep freezer (not my refrigerator). Coffee always comes out perfect. Thanks for mentioning allowing the beans to come to room temperature before opening the bag. I learned that lesson the hard way. You should have seen me in my kitchen, trying to dry my beans with a paper towel!!!
Forgot to say that you are a man with plans :D one year old coffee was prepared one year ago, respect!
Some people claim the Fellow Atmos and similar repeatable vac sealing containers might degrade the coffee flavours supposedly sucking out the VOC or maybe just the air pressure speeds up the degassing and affects things that way? I'm not sure if that's true, but could potentially be the case. I don't think vac sealing a coffee is going to do harm, I think it's useful for longer term storage (especially with freezing) but repeated vac sealing (taking some out, closing the container and reapplying vac seal) may degrade taste in theory... I wonder if anyone's tested this.
Very helpful 👍 your expression after the first sip of coffee was priceless 😁
I should have done this before going on my month-long overseas vacation. Thanks for the analysis!! I’ve heard a lot of people talk about this method but I haven’t seen any reviews of it. Great to know you can get great quality even with the cheapest equipment.
If you do get condensation on the beans, it doesn't make it go bad right away but I did find it goes waaay downhill after like a day or two. So now you better use that whole bag in a day :D
But for single dosing / frozen containers like little mason jars or vials, you can open right away and there's benefit to grinding from frozen too.
Bonus points for drinking a coffee at 10p.m. Enough with the ultra-healthy youtube that is always the shining example of doing everything right, and strictly drinks their last coffee at 3p.m. or something. People need to chill, relax and enjoy something "unhealthy" every now and then.
I typically vacuum seal and freeze when I know I'm going to have excess of a coffee, or when I've wanted to get a rare or limited coffee that I may not be able to brew for a while and don't want to miss out on it. The only weird thing I've had happen is that I vacuum sealed and froze a coffee I roasted same day after it cooled and it tasted really bad a few weeks later when I took it out and brewed it. I think it's because I didn't give it a few days to fully off gas, so I would highly recommend waiting like you recommended to vacuum seal and freeze if it's a really fresh coffee. Other than that I just use a couple Atmos containers cause I typically have 2 different coffees on hand at any given time. Great vid! 🙂
The smile on your face when you tasted that coffee was amazing 😄
This was a great experiment and it tells us how important it is to invest in coffee storage.
I use an Airscape Kilo and buy my beans a kilo at a time and they stay almost at the same freshness for the whole month.
Love my Airscapes. I always buy too much coffee and they let me get through a bag within a couple months and it does a decent job to keep it fresh.
I did that a lot during the pandemic. Used glass jar (air tight) with small (30g) zip lock bags inside, trying to take all air before zipping. I would the just take a bag for the day. In my experience, it lasted for 3 months with really great freshness.
Nice one. Thanks. I do that as well. unfortunately sometimes the bag wasn't vacuum enough or not sure what went wrong but some bags are soft again and the coffee lacking flavour. It would be interesting to compare that one year coffee with the same fresh one for a better understanding. And see if the the defrost coffee would aged faster. Not perfect but still the best way to slow down the aging.
Great video, as always! After watching it, I have vacuum-sealed and frozen some beans myself. I will let you know how they taste in one year :)
I would love to see the same test with espresso, where lack of CO2 is more visible in the cup.
All my coffee lives in the freezer. I just grind straight from frozen and brew. The vaccum sealing seems a clever method for long term storage!
Technically it's cooling, as coffee has too little moisture content to actually freeze, but you're completely right, it works great! We keep our fancy green coffees vacuum sealed in a freezer until it's roasting time. 😉
I spot a wild SoFi silently perched over there. 🧐
There's a bag of cheap, pre-ground hazelnut decaf that's been in my mother's freezer for about three years now. She's totally forgotten about it. I'm tempted to try it, but considering what it is, how could I even tell if it's still good? What even is "good" with store-brand, ground decaf? 🤣
That is how I treat my beef :D
You might want to close that bag you just opened....
Apart from that I usually close the bag my coffee came in with some sort of pin. Even a paperclip will do. Squeeze the air out and close it up. and back in the kitchen drawer I don't see the point of buying a pot.. unless you want to store it on display. Haven't tried freezing yet. I suspect any plastic bag wil be almost as good as the vacuum bag. My palate isn't sophisticated enough to taste the difference anyways.
What's the best way to store ground beans? Ik it's not a very coffee afficianado q, but it's where I'm at rn
Same principles. Just that ground coffee has more exposed surface area so freezing as soon as possible is best. Also wait for it to fully thaw before opening the bag.
@@aramse thank you!
Definitely not true. The prime of coffee beans for filter coffee is after 30 days . Wrong information bro.
Additionally, 3 months in freezer is around one days on room temperature, so one year in freezer is still very fresh. You need to do more research and get more information about freezing and storing coffee beans. Come on man.
4 weeks is ~30 days. Also there’s a range. If you like dark roasts for filter and you wait a 30 days it’s definitely not going to be at peak freshness. Also as a general thumb rule if you brewing espresso you typically rest for longer than filter cuz with filter the bloom eliminates a lot of the built up CO2. Also the whole point of this video is to show that 1 year in a freezer is still very fresh. So I’m not sure what your comment means exactly. But thanks for stopping by.
@@SpencerDonahue I think your math is pretty bad Spencer .3 months in freezer is around 1 day in room temperature, so 8 years time should be around 32 days in room temperature. As a result , it should be fine to brew . I am talking about light to medium roast, so my information is absolutely correct.
@@SpencerDonahue you should do your research online . I am not your service provider .
@@SpencerDonahue You can google and search on you tube already been proven freezing coffee in proper format ex in the freezer vacuum sealing or in the original unopened bag with tape on the valve prolongs the life of your coffee the most.
@@SpencerDonahue If you have coffee in the freezer from a decade ago .. What are you doing asking questions and questioning us? Your a pro.. you should already know commercial freezers and retail freezers are not the same the papers were done with commercial equipment.. from looking at others who freeze using within a year is ideal if vacuum sealing it appears and individual coffee up to two years... But seriously man you keeping coffee for a decade for what? Maybe you need to stop buying so much..