Coffee bean & coffee grounds freshness
I am looking for the flavor profile and/or deteriorating rate of whole coffee beans & coffee grounds, from day1-day 30 (I know the first couple of days the beans are degassing). If someone has this info in a graph or if you can point me in the right direction that would be awesome!
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Permalink Reply by Brady on
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I've seen this done somewhere for whole bean coffee... check perhaps in the SCAA online library if you can.
These are interesting, but there are limitations to what they tell you. There are so many reactions taking place to contribute to coffee aging - degassing, staling, going rancid, oxidation, aromatics breaking down into other aromatics, etc. Trying to measure different levels of compounds over time captures some aspects but not the whole. So they are certainly interesting, but do not tell the story.
I'm sure lots of others will jump in here too, and am looking forward to seeing what people have. I'll see if I can find something.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Carrasco on
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Thank you for the quick response. One of the first things I did was refer to the SCAA's website but, of course, I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. This particular information seems to be rather hard to locate...I'm sure I'll get to the bottom of this someday.
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Yeah, not surprised. Think I ran across it by accident one day. I've not yet figured out how to use their document search engine :(.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Shipley on
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We recommend our customers buy what they can use in less than 2 weeks, coffee we serve in house is generally between 3-7days. For most tasters there is no appreciable change in taste until after 15 days. Of course that is with coffee that is properly stored.
We follow the basic rule of 15. 15 months green, 15 days roasted, 15 minutes ground.
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As has been discussed in previous threads, this also varies between coffees, roast levels, etc. I (and many others here) will disagree with the statement that there is no appreciable change until after 15 days. While many coffees might still be acceptable at this point, the coffee's best flavor is in its first week with a peak at maybe day 2-3.
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