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I had friends over this weekend and made coffee for them after dinner.
They poked fun at me for the way I store it. I have three airtight containers that each hold a pound of either beans or grounds. I keep them in the pantry where it's cool and dark, and I cut the label from the bags to put into each one so I know which brand I'm using.

Am I nuts, as they seem to think?

I had friends over this weekend and made coffee for them after dinner. They poked fun at me for the way I store it. I have three airtight containers that each hold a pound of either beans or grounds. I keep them in the pantry where it's cool and dark, and I cut the label from the bags to put into each one so I know which brand I'm using. Am I nuts, as they seem to think?

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Coffee is perishable, treat it as such. I find it needs a few days to a week after roasting to outgas and reach best flavor, it’s not subtle, it’s a big difference. After that you get about three weeks of good coffee , or rather it’s as good as the beans were (massive variation like in fruits and vegetables) and as good as the roast were.

Problems are additive. Screw up any part, it can taste bad, screw up another part, it tastes even worse.

Ground coffee is good for less than an hour. This is easy to test side by side if you have fresh roasted coffee. If it sat on a shelf for unknown time, it’s dead. If you buy preground, it’s dead.

Airtight jars in a cool temperature stable environment is optimal.

Coffee is a deep rabbit hole, but if you could taste what I am drinking right now, you would realize every other cup you have ever had was a lie and burned bean water.

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That's ok I like my burned bean water.

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That’s fine. I used to like lots of things. Chef Boyardee. Grocery store tomato’s. Budweiser.

Take the tomato for example, buy a grocery store tomato. It’s hard, nearly tasteless, with an aftertaste of bitter.

Now take a dry farmed organic heirloom tomato grown by somebody’s grandmother in her garden that she dutifully composts with all her kitchen scrap. It’s a mind blowing difference.

Now extrapolate that’s same difference from burned bean water to what I have and call coffee. It’s like listening to amateur rap at open mic night compared to shakespearean theatre from acclaimed artists at a top theater.

Go unplug most of your spark plug wires on your sports car and then review it and how much you love it and it’s awesome. Difference is you know what I could be and know it not.

Perspective...

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You are right and have a valid point.

I think I'll still stay with my burned bean water since I like it now though. Your way sounds like way too much work when I don't know, taste wise, any better.

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burned bean water.

Excellent turn of phrase.