How To Keep Coffee Fresh At Home w/ Petra Davies Veselá 

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... to help you out: the gas valves are not needed on the (whole bean) roasted coffee beans bags. And yes, the valves contribute to loose a lot of the aroma, as well by de-gassing the bags. We, in the last 10 years never used valved bags for the our org. branded (roasted beans) coffee. And we never had any bag ruptured, with the customers feedback, to note, as well, to-day. The valved bags - you need only (and really) for the grounded, and coarse grounded, and similar, (other than beans) coffee. Hoping it helps, and thanks a lot for sharing the video and the insights :).

Usually i buy 3 x 250gr bags or 4-5 x 150gr, i use one like your advice in the video and store the extra ones in the freezer at about -20c Before i store them in the freezer i push the bags gently to force some of the air and gasses out of the bag through the degas valve When it's time to open a new sealed bag from the ones stored in the freezer i grab one and let it settle overnight or for some hours on the bench for the coffee beans to come up to room temperature before open it, NEVER open it while its cold Once open it never goes back in to freezer again because the moisture form the air will become ice =water

Coffee could stay fresh after roasting forever all you need is controlled humidified environment we use the same process for storing cigars a humidity pack called ( (boveda) %69 60g) keep the humidity at 69% which keep the coffee fresh few days ago I tried a 3 months old coffee and it still taste sooo good try it go on amazon and by a boveda 69 and through it in the bag with your coffee and it should last much longer there is a study I found after doing this experiment that humidity protect the oils in the coffee from oxidation hope this helps someone

I buy a kg of decent quality beans and split them into three bags. Use one and freeze the others until I need to use the others. Stays fresher then me leaving it in the bag for a few weeks for us to finish. Would ideally buy 250g bags each week but it costs around double and gets quite expensive when you have the whole family drinking a few cups each a day

Great video! Thinking out loud - it seems to me that storing your beans in the fridge should be OK as long as you only take out single doses and grind them directly, as one would do for instance with a Niche Zero or a hand grinder. The condensed water that the cold beans may attract should then actually be a good thing - some baristas even spray their beans with a little water before grinding them, to avoid static electricity.

Really one of the best videos I've seen on coffee freshness! Great tips and very well explained!

This advice is great if you have a coffee shop that has enough volume but what advice do you have for home user that typically store coffee for 1-3 months

What I personally do: Vacuum pack in 45g batches and store in a freezer. Vacuum packed beans stay fresh for months and with smaller batches you can take out only what you need for the day, avoiding problems of condensation and freeze-thaw cycles.

On contrary it is recommended to spray beans with distilled water just before grounding coffee and brewing, then they ope more allowing for deeper flavour. Also fridge si the best solution to keep it fresh.

I buy 100 grams every 2 days in Albania. It is way worth the effort of going to the roaster that often. It is always warm from the grinder.

At the end you say that it might be a bit harsh. Maybe if you're standing next to the coffee section in the local supermarket telling it to strangers. But to people who watch videos about coffee storage like me it is very helpful.

How does it work that you lose the aroma when you pour the beans into vacuum container from the bag when the bag has the aroma? Doesn't that mean the aroma already left the beans into the gases of the bag and won't go back once you grind them even if they're stored in the bag?

You recommend buying "small" bags of coffee like 250 grams and finishing them in 5-7 days once open. If you are by yourself you really would need to be making coffee many times during the day to finish a 250 gram bag in that time frame. Most people recommend finishing a bag within a month to 45 days, which seems more reasonable.

Thank you! You answered all my questions.🙂🙏🏽

This is the way.

Excellent advice from Petra Davies Veselá on coffee freshness, why it is important and how to keep your coffee fresh. Buy coffee from local coffee shop or from a coffee roastery. Note the roast date. Best by is meaningless. Buy beans The best storage for your coffee coffee bans is the coffee bag it was shipped in. Vacuum containers extract air, in addition they extract aroma from the coffee beans. Extract coffee from the coffee bags, squeeze the bag to expel air, then seal the bag. Once open the beans will only keep for a few days before they go stale, lose their aroma and oxidise. Buying large bags of coffee is a false economy. The coffee needs to be fresh, and will go stale quickly once open. Buy smaller bags, more often. You would not buy fresh produce in larger quantities than is needed. The same applies to coffee. Do not leave the beans in a hopper. Use a hand grinder, Rhino, Crunch Grind. Knock, Comandante. Or Niche Zero. Niche Zero is a single dose grinder, no hopper, thus no temptation to leave the beans in a hopper, there is no hopper. Do not store the beans in a fridge. Condensation will form on the beans when removed from the fridge. The beans will pick up odours from the fridge. keithpp.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/lincoln-eco-pantry/ Zero waste shops are excellent for dried fruits, nuts, refilling shampoo bottles, but not for buying loose coffee beans that are bagged and weighed. The beans will be stale. Lincoln Eco Pantry, the coffee beans stored loose in tins, shipped from the roastery in plastic boxes. Looking in one tin marked Brazil, dark burnt over roasted coffee beans, the smell of burnt stale beans. Not pleasant.

I'd love to have local roaster within walking distance with a stock of my favorite beans to buy freshly roasted beans in 250g bag every third day. Then I wouldn't have to buy several bags of coffee to save on shipping and don't live in an endless purchase and tracking cycle. Now I just leave few of coffee bags on a shelf and another few bags wrap into several plastics bags with as less air as possible (to protect from possible moisture and smells) and freeze. After I remove a bag of coffee from freezer, I wrap it in a several towels and let acclimatize overnight to open it next day. At the end of batch I have slightly stale coffee (6-8 weeks) but at least I can brew beans whatever I fancy. I just don't have a good place to set up mini roaster and single time I tried it in a flat ended up with a relationship strength test and I have to admit smell during roasting process is disgusting so I never insisted to repeat roasting at home.

I’ve been using the fellow atoms vaccine container and I think she’s right. It does suck some goodness out of the beans. Since I’ve stoped using it I’ve had much better coffees.

Great tips! Love your accent too!

I dont think this video does the topic justice without mentioning freezing portions of beans in an airtight container. That sounds like the most practical method for home brewers rather than purchasing a small amount every week or two.

I find doing weight grinding for espresso perfect, as I just weigh 18-20grms for a double shot or 21-22grm for a triple shot, and 10-12grm for singleshot

thank you for this!!!!

Specialty coffee industry's next mission should be how to significantly extend the freshness of the beans even after the bag is opened. Coffee taste/aroma/freshness is at its peak for only one week as stated in the video. This is insanely impractical, to be honest. The smallest bag I could find from local specialty coffee roasteries was 10 oz (~283g) and this certainly takes more than a week to finish.

I recently visited two roasters where they store their beans either in a plastic container box with lid and the other one with a tin box with lid. They both seal their beans in front of the customers as they buy. I don't know whether it's the light/med-light roast that don't matter that much or they have their own way to store it just to facilitate for their operation. I hope I could understand more as a customer. The beans are in decent freshness by all means. Thanks.

Only thing that I'm not too excited about with buying smaller batches is the amount of plastic that's being used for packaging. Would there be a better way for a roastery to reuse packaging?

This was a great Video. Valuable info from professionals is always great

Sincere thanks!

Very nice

Thank you so much for your information very helpful for me to enjoy.

thank you!!! i was putting my beans in the fridge which i now know it is a NO NO

How bout those beans sitting into the hopper for the whole day? I think its much better if you will put the beans only as needed.

One to two weeks, forget that. I'd be drinking coffee all day long.

Thank you, it's very useful.

Can you freeze coffee?

I enjoyed this video. Thank you!!

So i shouldn't store any ground coffee? just grind coffee that you're gonna use. is freezing the coffee beans ok if i wanna store it for longer periods?

Thank you!!!

So, storing ground coffee is not recommended? I do it because I find it more practical for travel and because I don't want to bring a hand grinder every where I go.

Thank you 🙏

thank you, good information

Just to summarize: for storing coffee is better to keep in the coffee beg than in the Vacuum container ?

I wish the stores sold packs of 100g coffee instead of 250g. For me, a 250g pack lasts for 20 days to a month, because I use 8g to 10g per serving because I can't ingest more caffeine. And I also don't want to religiously drink it every single day, twice a day.

Thanks for this episode. I was about to buy the vacuum sealed containter for grinded coffee, but now I see that this is a bad idea in general :)

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hello do you have an opinion on buying 250grm beans at super market with a date use by of 12 months .i seem to have no problem . but i am not a coffee expert and i do love the drinks from these beans .Some sites say coffee no good over one week

The biggest issue I have is that I don't have a big budget for coffee. I usually get it at Sam's Club or Wal-mart (roughly 50/50). At Sam's they have 2lbs bag ($10) of good (not great) coffee and the expiration date on it is usually a year out. At Wal-mart they a couple of brands that are roughly 11oz a bag at $6-7 with same expiration and is better coffee. There is one more at another store for the same price and weight as Wal-mart's and is significantly better coffee, but is out of the way for us. Price per weight, Sam's Club's coffee is better with the sacrifice of taste and freshness. I say freshness, because I am the only coffee drinker. A two pound bag last 2-3 weeks. To get the same amount of coffee in the smaller bags, it would roughly be 3 bags for a total that's twice the amount of the 2lb bag.

I love your channel 🙂👌

thanks !

Fresh, coffee, fresh.

Now I know. 👌

I'm in the group with 1kg and wonder why it tastes stale after a couple of weeks ... need to lookup different sizes then

Oohhh I love you!

Good advices

But the coffee comes roasted from the shop. Maybe it's been there for one year. How can I know if it's still fresh?

Very useful. Thank you! :)

Hey what's the chemistry behind this?

To me,the valve in the pouch is a myth.. and freezing the beans is the way to go. No moisture issue, even if lettle bit got moisture it is in cold weather. From experience.

Great video again. Do the naughty dog sells online? I would like to try it (Portugal). I cannot find it online

Is there a way to keep ground coffee fresh for 2 months? I need to stock up for coming 2 months for some reasons. I'll be buying 500gm of coffee.

I roast my own beans at home in 1 pound batches. What about freezing the beans after I let them degas for 48 hours. They are in a sealed container and never in the freezer more than a week before I use them. I have not tasted any difference or degradation myself

can you please do a video about how to store coffee drink too? thanks

I’m new to coffee and was about to buy tons of bags of coffee beans. Looks like that wouldn’t be wise. Right now I go through about 3-5lbs of coffee per week. As of now I don’t have a espresso machine. We are using a Mika Pot right now. But I’m saving up for a Espresso machine.

I bought 1kg to use the folllowing 4 weeks.... how can I keep it the freshiest possible¿

What brand are the sealer machine , thanks👍😊

According to this I can't drink coffee at home 1 I live in Arizona it is hot.2 I am the only coffee drinker in the house and drink 1 to 2 cups a day so hard to but small enough quantities 12 ounces lasts a about a month and my income makes it necessary to buy for at least that long.

I truly want her book T_T but I don't know czech

I've found that it is more cost-effective to order 3 x 250g bags (free shipping usually required a minimum USD $50 purchase). So I open one bag and try to use it quickly, but have been leaving the other 2 in the original sealed bag at room temperature. Would it be better to store these unopened bags in the freezer, as long as I let them return to room temperature before opening?

If you roast yourself , when are the beans ready to grind and use , some say , same Day other say you have to wait 2-7 days , what are the correct Way 👍thanks

Drinking it within one week seems unrealistic when there is only one person, even when ordering 12 oz bags!

İts sound funny how you say coffee (koffi) and you say it a lot :))) thnx

How about for home roasters who don’t have bags with fancy sealing methods?

Lol max one week? I get that it's better, but it's kinda bullshit to say that.

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I buy Folgers Coffee. I guess I’m screwed.

do you mean freezer or refrigerator ?

By the time I finished this my coffee beans were too stale to use, not sure why a paragraph wouldn't suffice. Nice people, but geeezz....

Ohhh I love beautiful Petra xxoo

Her coffee storage techniques only works if you have an extra load of cash coming in each month. Nonsense for your middle class person.

give me a break ... one week ... in real life coffee is great no matter how old it is

What a beautiful women. I think im in love...

Great tips from a beautiful woman!☺️

The video is one of the worst video about coffee. She gave lots of fault info.

I’m attracted to these accents

Until you roast you own coffee you haven't had fresh coffee.