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  • #16
    Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

    Your experience with wine, IMO, is directly related to coffee.

    Storing freshly roasted beans, completely sealed, in the fridge is going to be different to storing an opened and re-sealed packet. Think of the storage fridges for fine wines as opposed to storing a half finished bottle.

    No matter what the storage medium, some chemical changes happen, some wines/beans respond well to those changes, some turn to muck.

    And as with wine, the final arbiter of what you like is your palate.

    Greg

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    • #17
      Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

      Fridge storage - some coffee houses in Melbourne are using wine fridges to store their beans in as you can control humidity and temp with them, not sure but I think I saw one running at 12 degrees? So they are not running them anywhere near 3 or 4 degrees like a house fridge so there is no comparison. Normal fridges are cold moist enviroments and one way valves will allow some moisture back in as well as letting gas out also they contain odours from other foods :P

      A local cafe used to store their open 3kg bags of Genovese in their normal food fridge and depending on how long their bag had been in their the coffee was rubbish. I had a quiet word in one of their barristas ears (she works for me too) coffee is now coming in 1kg bags and going in a dark cupboard. The 1/2kg bags I brought of Genovese from them were SO much better in taste.

      There was a fairly comprehensive blind test done by some Canadians I think on fridge, fresh to freezer over a fair period of time so I will see if I can find the link again. Bottom line was fresh was better but frozen if used quickly wasnt a lot worse.

      Bean taste does vary a lot depending on age and some varietals are bland and dull by week 3 and 4 while some are only getting really good by week 3. A couple of recent expensive bags I had were quite noticably not at their peak by late week 2 as a Syphon, still really nice but had lost some of the high notes while the $10 blend from Veneziano was still great as an Espresso after 3 weeks.

      "Its what is in the cup that counts" is a phrase I like, if it tastes good consistantly is the only thing that really matters and if you can buy fresh as you need it then its better I reckon

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      • #18
        Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

        Originally posted by 436269696E74070 link=1266833073/14#14 date=1266968371
        So, what did he say about your findings?
        that it was my fault for not adjusting the grinder properly!!! LOL...

        Originally posted by 65626669616B7E6E6960070 link=1266833073/16#16 date=1266988856
        some coffee houses in Melbourne are using wine fridges to store their beans in as you can control humidity and temp with them,
        I was thinking of that as well, but we have issue with space so....

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        • #19
          Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

          Time for a new supplier SPL.G

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          • #20
            Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

            Originally posted by 64666A62626C6B76050 link=1266833073/18#18 date=1267047350
            Time for a new supplier SPL.G
            Id second that...

            If your supplier reckons thats the go, they have no interest in coffee whatsoever....

            For mine, they can do whatever they like with it- pack it in a titanium capsule and flush it with argon gas and then install a 100 way valve which selectively vents only chosen gases. I reckon its all just marketing babble to explain away uniform(ly past peak) coffee....I guess if its all 6 months old, then it will be consistent.

            Id much prefer to drink mine fresh....whatever the biggies say!

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            • #21
              Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

              Originally posted by 352127273D31362133333535540 link=1266833073/17#17 date=1267012859
              Dennis wrote on Yesterday at 10:39:
              So, what did he say about your findings?

              that it was my fault for not adjusting the grinder properly!!! LOL...
              Oh.

              Well, if you ever decide to flip give me a call.

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              • #22
                Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

                If switching suppliers is on the card then life would have been so much easier!!  But no, it is not an option for me Im afraid.

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                • #23
                  Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

                  Originally posted by 4541677E7E7B64737C120 link=1266833073/7#7 date=1266867811
                  Rocky wrote on Feb 22nd, 2010, 9:36pm:

                  I live a long way from high quality supplies time to grab a popper and try ya hand at home roasting!
                  This is so easy and innexpensive youll rue not doing it earlier! Even if (like friends of mine) you are laboured with 6minute roasts at the outset, you will taste the difference of not stale. 10 000 members is not a fluke!

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                  • #24
                    Re: Old Coffee beans does not affect the taste of the coffee !!!

                    Popper gets my vote and when you retire you can work your way to Corretto or whatever floats your boat.

                    Lifes too short for stale coffee and fresh coffee is too easy ! :

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