I collected some beans from New York, LA, London, and Toronto during my trips in August and September. I know it’s not ideal, but I’ve been trying to use them all with a single grinder. There’s been a bit of waste while adjusting the grinder each time I switch beans, but I’ve been having fun tasting different flavors since mid-September.
I especially like the Nomad, WatchHouse, and The Library beans btw.
by Dodo-Bey
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Freeze all of them and then drink 1 at a time. Let’s you dial in properly and enjoy and then the next one is still fresh when you take it out of the freezer.
Depends. How stale do you like your coffee?
Depends a lot on the grinder. Some are more forgiving than others. With my DRM, I rarely make big adjustments even between pretty different coffees so I can have a few bags open at once and not feel like I’m wasting a bunch on dialing back and forth.
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I would put all these bags in the freezer asap. I have way less coffee and they always live in the freezer. Keeps beans perfectly fresh for months.
You can grind straight from frozen. No reason to defrost first. You might have to slightly adjust your grind settings for frozen beans but once adjusted it’s no different to normal beans.
I never open more than two at a time and I keep as much as possible in the freezer. I have anywhere between 2 and 6 bags on hand at any given time. But I always try to finish every bag within 6 weeks of roasting.
>buys £4000 coffee machine
>doesn’t know that coffee goes stale fairly quickly.
Nomad, nice
The answer very much depends on your consumption rate. If you’re having 15g/day ya it’s a lot! If you have 100g less so
Do you contatantly change your dial setting,?
About that many I’d say…
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I’d just mix them all together and then start guessing origins
Nomad spotted!
Mix them al together ans you‘ll get a woderful melangé (not).
Never more than 1kg at a time. My personal opinion is that the amount should be finished within 4 weeks from roasting.
I feel the first week after roasting, the beans are not perfectly up to taste in most cases, so that leaves 3 weeks to drink them! The amount stashed in your drawer is a waste to be fair! It’s so much and so much difference in coffee, that you keep losing beans to adjust grind settings when you want to switch them out.
Good luck! In your case I would share some bags with friends.
I have a machine at work and home, two bags open at any one time for me.
I usually don’t buy more than 1kg bags so I avoid getting the beans stale. For only one person 500g a month should be enough taking two cups a day.
But I kind understand you, visiting coffee shops is a temptation to take some.bags with you if you like the coffee. As others said, your best option is to freeze the beans.
Library Specialty and Hatch! Hello Fellow Torontonian.
I like to do the same thing; however, you can’t do it how you are doing it.
I bought 100 Weber Bean Cellars and I dose them and freeze the cellars. It works amazing. I’m drinking coffee roasted 3-5 months ago and it tastes just as great as 2 weeks off roast.
I have since bought a label printer so I could save timing writing individual labels but I don’t feel like taking a new picture. In the label I write what it is, the grind size, and the dose (some espresso and some filter). It helps that I have separate grinders for filter and espresso but I think the cellars in the freezer is your only solution here.
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Max I would open is two bags, one for espresso and one for V60.
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Seems like obvious waste to me.
vacuum pack and put it in freezer… use one at a time
I’m already getting annoyed just having to tweek my grinder with each new coffee I try let alone find the perfect shot within it lol. It’s so damn wasteful.
At least put them in the freezer
I keep one caffeinated and one decaffeinated open at the same time. So 2 is OK and 3 is too many.
I never have more than 2 bags opened at the same time. That is at home, not just opened. I would never drink them fast enough otherwise.
2 Maximum! They get stale so fast.
Ordinarily – 2, or three at the most, especially if one happens to be decaf.
Unordinarily, you do you. If you’re still enjoying the coffee three months later, who are we to tell you it is stale. Even better, do what others have suggested and freeze your coffee, then we all feel a little less ‘bleh’ on your behalf. As someone else mentioned, my situation is exactly the same; 1 x 1Kg and 2 x 250g. If that coffee is still there after one month, it is old and doesn’t pour as well as it did three weeks before.
with no vaccum sealed containers, your coffee will prob be stale in like 2 days lmao
Wtf
After half of a year, you can toss them into the trash. I can’t drink then any more aber a while. I have one bag at a time.
2?
I hate dialing in the grinder so I switch between 2 that use a similar grind setting. Takes like 5 coffees to dial it in and that means 5 below average cups before I get it right and by then I’ve eaten into a chunk of the bag.
I buy beans that are as close to roasting date as possible. Around 200g-400g bags and use them until they’re gone, before opening a new bag. So imo 2 bags is too many to be using at the same time.
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