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Thanks, Mal. Ive already had 3 cups of the beans I roasted this morning. Couldnt wait They were better this evening (than this morning), getting a really nice aroma; and should be better again tomorrow and the next day from what Ive gleaned here.
Tomorrow Ill roast some from the calico bag and see how they go. I cant compare the different storages (calico vs ziplock) because theyre all different types of beans. In any case, any opinion would be subjective and my palate for super freshly roasted coffee needs a lot of training (which Im looking forward to), but so far so good.
This time around I found roasting so easy - just using a popper and roasting 50-100g at a time. It only takes a few minutes and it suits me well, being quite a few hours from anywhere with reasonable roasted beans for sale. So I doubt now that Ill be buying anything but green from now on. But much to learn still.
Welcome to CoffeeSnobs by the way...... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
You should be fine with the beans stored in the original calico bag but the beans stored in plastic bags or containers may be a bit dicey, hard to know really. I guess if theyve been stored in a very temperature stable cool-ish environment, they should be ok but only a roast will tell one way or the other.
As for storage generally, so long as the storage environment is cool, dark and airy and you keep your beans stored in natural fibre bags such as the CS Calico ones, 3 years is probably quite realistic. Ive roasted a few batches of beans that are coming up to their 3rd birthday here at home and they produced a beautiful cup.
Brown(roasted) beans stored in 1-Way Valve bags in a cool, dark environment will last about 3-4 weeks so long as youre careful with squeezing out all the air before resealing. Freshly ground coffee starts to go stale as soon as its ground and generally considered to be dead :P after about 3-4 minutes have elapsed, all that surface area exposed to oxygen is what does it.
Let us know how you get on tiger, would be interested to find out....
Hi, Im just getting into roasting green beans after trying it out some time ago. Ive got some beans in the cupboard that I bought probably 2 or 3 years ago (going by my profile ;D ). Ive only done a couple of small packets that werent stored ideally (in ziplock) and havent yet roasted the beans that have been stored in the cloth CS bag.
What do you think - they seem to be alright and better than the brown beans Ive been getting. Just used the popcorn maker and Im no expert roaster (this is only the third or fourth time roasting but it seems to have worked fine).
Is there any harm in roasting old green beans? Theyve been in a dark cupboard all this time, with reasonable aeration.
Thanks for any tips - Im really glad I came back here 8-)
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