There is much debate over how people should store their coffee beans. This article will hopefully address some of these issues for you in a clean cut and straight forward manner.
So you’ve read a great article in your local town’s newspaper telling you of all the benefits of home ground and fresh roasted coffee. So you took the insights found in the article and went ahead and bought some coffee beans of all varieties, from Vietnamese, to Jamaican, and others.
But the question now is, how are you going to store all of these coffee beans without causing them to suffer in quality and taste? Unfortunately it is widely practiced where coffee beans are stored in a freezer in hopes to retain its freshness.
However the opposite normally holds true. The best environments to preserve beans are in a dark, moisture-free, and cold place. The problem with freezers is that it doesn’t fulfill the moisture-free criteria. Placing your unused coffee beans in a freezer will result in its natural oils being tarnished and even destroyed as a result of the surrounding moisture seeping in.
Your best bet is to not buy in bulk, but to buy in smaller quantities. An amount that you can finish in a week in other words. You should also buy your coffee from a local roaster, and not off the shelf of a grocery store. I also suggest that you avoid most chain stores, as they don’t date their coffee , which means you don’t know when it was roaster. In other words, it’s likely to be stale coffee. We suggest you buy from roasters that produce smooth, rich, fresh coffee such as the Jackson Coffee Company.