We recommend consuming our coffee within 3 months of the roast date for the best taste. So we put the roast date on our packaging. How long do you keep your coffee for?
How Long Do You Keep Your Coffee?
AssociatedL[Deactivated] @ Ignatius Coffee on 21/01/2017 - 19:40
Last edited 22/01/2017 - 11:09 by 1 other user
Last edited 22/01/2017 - 11:09 by 1 other user
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I hope you've been turning it a quarter turn every 3 months…
I'm sure that matters when you have a Morezzinato Luxinello Intimidatore Turbo Nutter Bastard Ghia 4.3 Ultimaton.
Precisely; my butler does the turning for me. ;)
@StewBalls: None of that will matter unless it is climate cooled to hit 4.0'C ± 0.1'C, or the Coffee-nitrates will lose all their efficacy.
@Kangal: Of course, if Jeeves doesn't keep the Moccona cellar at the requisite temperature all year round, he'll taste the back of my hand, by George…
You mean you've had no luck inviting dates back for Moccona coffee? :)
That was a very clever ad from the 90s, unfortunately I can't find it on the Internet. Scene: end of dinner date. The waiter suggests coffee, the man kicks him in the ankle and the waiter mumbles that they've run out. But I have Moccona at home, the man says. Closing title: Moccona, for coffee lovers.
Hipsters…
Too soon is yuck. Need at least a few days after roast. Most beans are well past it after a month or so, and will be average then. If they taste the same 3 months later, then to me says they are probably not very exciting beans to start with!
I agree we "rest" our new roasted beans a few days atleast. We recommend consuming our coffee within 3 months for the best results, which is why we don't supply coffee bags more than 500g.
500g
That's like 3 days supply in our house.
Assumiung 20g/cup, you guys drink 25 cups of coffee every 3 days?
Living the dream!
Sounds about right … I tend to have a double shot in the morning and another single shot (sometimes a double) during the course of the day. Wife is probably about the same … There's occasionally visitors too. We'd easily average 8-10 shots/day out of our machine … there goes 500g of coffee.
@sp00ker: What is a shot? I just started using a french press, and have no idea what you are talking about.
that around 6 days in our house.
I do what I want! That includes buying good coffee in bulk and drinking it in my own damn time.
Agree 100%
Can't believe it when people keep the same coffee for 3 months! And vaccines sealing! The only reason roasted beans can be vacuum sealed is because they are pre-staled so they stop giving off all the delicious aromatics that make it tasted good, so then it just ends up tasting "generic average coffee"
And vaccines sealing!
So there's a coffee vaccine now…thank goodness, I've been wanting to quit, but going iced turkey is just too hard…
I once considered giving coffee. But then I told myself: you're not a quitter.
Ditto for chocolate. :)
We use our beans between 1 - 3 weeks from roast, earlier than 1 week it tastes "green" and too late tastes shit. A tip my roaster told me to do is to open the bags the day before using it to "age or oxidise" it if it's not old enough to use yet. (FYI we use beans in bags with one way values)
Aged coffee - a new trend?
No
Is it like medium rare chicken? #cleaneating
If you're cooking it any more than tataki, then you're doing it wrong: http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/2013/07/1… :P
i liked my coffee beans when i was 12 years old
I just get coffee as cheap as I can …
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/256837
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/267577
… pile it up in the cupboard, and what doesn't fit ends up on a shelf.Some of it (not the above 2 posts) is over 4 years old now and the large jar of ground coffee may contain a mixture of 3 or more brands. Aside from the fact it is Arabica, I must have a very unsophisticated palate, but I like to keep the cost low.
Agreed. A mate of mine does exactly this too, and TBH he makes a far better coffee with it than I ever will with the freshest of beans! I'm fully aware of my limitations as both a barista and connoisseur.
There's a huge amount of unmitigated wank in coffee snobbery, the secret is just to enjoy a decent brew without buying into it all too much. Some of the comments starting to find their way in here now are just The Emperor's New Clothes of elitism…
You hit the nail on the head. All that "wrong side of the hill" posturing helps to increase prices.
I buy green beans and roast them each week, definitely at peak between 3-7 days from roast. But good for up to two weeks, okay up to 4 weeks. After that, definitely not so good.
We started roasting our own beans at home too! Definitely a huge difference in flavoring. You no longer need the milk and sugar to hide the bad flavours, because when you roast yourself you can bring out the sweetness of the bean. So tasty!!! Although when a batch gets a bit older as not as nice sometimes I will put some milk in. How do you roast your own beans? Do you have a home roaster?
I use mine mostly for Espresso machine, so always use milk anyway. I just use the oven, 220C and then just monitor closely, most beans are done between 10-15 minutes I find. Cost difference is great as well, I generally pay between $10-13 p/Kg. Only time I ever let beans last 4 weeks is if I've been on holiday.
Aldi bread maker with an Ozito heat gun (Corretto Roaster) eBay IR thermometer gun.
Try cold brew, no bitterness at all no matter how dark the roast, it has a beautiful smooth round finish.
Consume after roasting between 3 days and 14 days. After 2 weeks its getting bad. After 4 weeks it's binned.
coffees is a suburban yuppie's idea of crack, Im drinking tea
I HAVE HAD COFFEE BEANS FOR YEARS MY CAT JUST LOVES THEM
WITH HIS LOW FAT MILK. HE LOVES THE GRITTY TASTE
MOEW,MOEW,I THINK YOU MAY HAVE HAD TOO MUCH, YOUR EXCITEMENT IS COMING THROUGH TO US IN YOUR POST
You're just pretending your cat drinks it, when it's actually you and getting all hyper in UPPER CASE. Caffeine is poison for cats and dogs, BTW.
His cat may actually be a civet… ;)
OP keeps changing the title. Wonder if s/he regrets starting the discussion.
wannabe hipsters selling coffee past it prime.
haha didn't realise this started as about aged coffee lololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
Seems more like a self promotion post…. Than a genuine thread
'coffee drink'
3 months is just ridiculous, so thanks for the warning:
Ignatius Coffee = no clue.Not that it bothers me, I keep green beans for up to half a year and roast my own as required. 2-3 days for degass is fine, then it's drinkable with peak at around 5-8 days, then a rapid decline.
It's quite simple, really. You label the packet with "Roasted on date" and that's it. If you want to give recommendations as to when to stop using the coffee, I'd label it as "Consume within 14 days of roast date", although 10 is more like it in reality.
Exactly
Aldi coffee beans doesn't provide roast dates :'( they only show expiry dates…
FYI Aldi beans are awesome bang for your buck! I love my snobby high end cafes, I put up with their bullshit cos some of them actually make heavenly coffee. For $10/kg, Aldi coffee is good stuff. Of course, you'll have to have the right set up for your beans to maximise taste extraction. My number one rule is to never ever use pre-ground. Always freshly ground and then straight to the machine with a non pressurised portafilter.
I've never tried the Aldi beans but I think the Woolworths select beans are very good. They only come in 1kg now so I only get about half way through the pack before they go off, but at $12/kg I'm not too fussed about wasting half the pack.
I found Aldi beans extremely weak without any kind of buzz and ended up having 2 or 3 more coffees than I usually would, so the cost would effectively be around $20kg to get a caffeine fix. Whenever Vittoria, or coles beans, Aurora or chico Doro go on special, I buy them and don't need to drink more than 1 or 2 coffee a day.
Fresh roasted coffee should be left for about 4 to 6 days, then ground on demand & consumed within a month. Kept somewhere cool in a vac sealed bag. After week 3 you can taste the coffee losing its flavours/aroma.
I think from a commercial point of view, 3 months is sufficient. Your average coffee drinker won't be able to tell the difference anyway, especially if it's been diluted with sugar.
1 Month storage for commercial purposes should be the benchmark, and I've seen it done. However, it's bloody expensive, you're almost better off just buying the coffee over the counter while you're at the shop.
It depends what market OP is aiming for. I know that coffee brings out the worst in people, I am guilty of that but I play on it to take the piss out of the coffee Nazis I work with. But yes, freshly roasted beans consumed within 7 days is optimal, the creamy caramel taste of fresh coffee beans… yes take me there
When a question isn't really a question, but just a way to get a free plug for their website…… Nice work OP!
Thanks for the feedback everyone. Good to see a wide range of opinions on this topic :)
Just remember, opinions here are only good for 10-14 days…on day 15 they'll be declared bullshit! ;)
OP didn't last another day.
Good to see a wide range of opinions on this topic
Any wonder, with the number of revisions you made to the title and text.
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Aged coffee - a new trend?
Someone on one of our Ignatius Coffee deals asked us at what age are our coffee beans best. That was a bit of a surprise question, as most people ask us how new the coffee is and how fresh it is? I suppose there is aged wine and whisky, so why not aged coffee? What's people's experience/ thoughts on this? A new trend perhaps?
I get a fresh kilo once every 6 weeks??
Grind on demand.
Absolutely beautiful stuff. (Loo loos Coffe House in Kincumber)
When 3/4 through the bag, you start wondering if your grind is wrong and start adjusting things.
Eventually get a new bag and that liquid goo comes out again like it should.
every month I say I'll buy earlier and ever month I forget and go through the same crap ;)
I'm in the same boat, I purchase 1kg from a local roaster. It lasts me 4-6 weeks. I find it is at its best though ~4-10 days after roasting.
when i trim my beard
so never?
I keep mine precisely as long it takes to work it's way out of my body.
Holy crap the revision history for this post is amazing.
I liked it when the title was changed to simply 'coffee'.I got an email from nespresso today about aged coffee … I guess that explains where the trend started.
If it's lavazza, that stuff I have in cupboards for up to 18 months. To be honest the taste doesn't change IMO…
Yeah. I'm only in it for the buzz really, an expensive and more tasty coffee is something more of a rare treat. Once there is no attachment, most if not all coffee will do.
I tend to buy small and consume fast. I find beans dry out quickly in Melbourne regardless of how they're kept, and the moisture required to get a good cup from my home machine dissipates quickly. I buy single 250g bags as I'm the only coffee drinker in the household now. That would last me about 7-10 days at most.
consume from 1 - 4 weeks , that is what you should be saying as a roaster…….hmmm
We go through about 250g-500g a week at home.
Coffee is generally a few days 'old' roasted the previous weekGoes stale and oily otherwise
"DisabledUser" lol
#MarketingFail
In other words - revisit your 'people are willing to pay through the nose for better than avg coffee' mantra…
My cup of coffee can sit for a few hours as i drink it. Talk about getting my moneys worth huh!
How come that guy's now a disabled user? Were they trying to market stuff on the sly?
They failed by not utilising the age-old bullshitter's escape clause: A friend of mine told me that…
Rookie error.
I am indeed curious why OP is now a Disabled User. Meanwhile, I sip the first of 3 mugs produced by this evening's pot of coffee made in what was a relative's unwanted gift. I don't know the coffee brand as it is likely a mixture my wife ground last week with a $3 electric grinder purchased brand new at a garage sale years ago. It tastes fine, it is 100% Arabica, and I kept the cost low.
You dont plan to sleep tonight?
Well, I had a snooze on the train. I'll catch up.
Wow! 6 months?!
I fresh grind beans every day. I have a P&R subscription and when the coffee in the bag is more than a week or two old it goes into the garden because it loses flavour and fails to brew well.
I don't know about unopened bags but I had one that was a month old and after the first few coffees failed it also ended up in the garden.
Where do you guys get your beans from? I personally buy from Beanbays but shipping from melb to syd is hefty. I buy 1kg for 35 bucks and then shipping is another 12. However they print the roast date on the bags and it's never more than 3-4 days old.
I keep the beans for 1 month tops. I'll have to adjust the grind size to finer as they age and they eventually become dull.
Do you mean Bay Beans…is he still in business? His coffee was quite good…
Nope. It's beanbay. Yeah I agree his roasts are pretty good.
We used to have a guy that posted on here (I think his name was James) from Bay Beans in Nelson Bay, NSW…really nice coffee at pretty good prices…I wonder if they're related.
Hi there!
I go to local shops - like coles and woolies when they have big sales on Lavazza!! /s
Woodsman's Axe - sells Axil coffee in Brisbane
Strauss - sells Supreme Coffee
Lola Coffee - sells Coffee Alchemy in Woolloongabba, Brisbane
Ltd Espresso - But I can only bear so many peni$-chinos. It's not funny anymore.I have shied away from Merlo, Dibella and Campos. Campos is very good, but it's not like it used to be back in its hey-day. Maybe my tastebuds have gotten worn down. Who knows.
After roasting: 30 days
After grinding: 30 minutes
After brewing: 30 secondsOnly a true ozbargainer drinks instant coffee.
I have some Maccona in my pantry from 6 or so years ago. Maybe I could sell it for double what I paid