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I drink a lot less good coffee at home. Not worth shelling out for 5lb of the good stuff when everything past the first pound will be stale and not very good by
by pantaloony 6y ago
I drink a lot less good coffee at home. Not worth shelling out for 5lb of the good stuff when everything past the first pound will be stale and not very good by the time I get to it, and purchased in smaller (usually 8-12oz) bags high-quality, freshly-roasted beans are way too expensive to have more than occasionally. So those transcendently good cups where one can actually taste stuff other than "coffee flavor" or "three-day-old rained-on camp fire" happen a lot less often for me now. :-(
Upper-end-of-bad coffee beans from Costco (so, about the best they have there) are my go-to at home. Steeping the grounds slow & cold yields way less cigarette butt flavor/odor than doing pourovers with them, so I'm making a lot more cold brew than before. Good thing it's Summer.
- Ductapemaster 6y agoThe more expensive beans from Costco are great as Toddy cold brew! I don't like them as normal hot-brew...too much cigarette/burnt flavor comes through for me as you mentioned — but not in the cold brew!
- mtts 6y agoYou can freeze coffee beans. Helps keeps them fresh a lot longer.
- regularfry 6y agoI do this. Get a kilo of good beans, freeze them in 250g batches.
- dwd 6y agoAny issues with moisture? I find most things I freeze end up with condensation freezing inside the bag, which isn't going to be good for the coffee. I could imagine it going moldy within days of defrosting with the local humidity.
- regularfry 6y agoNot for me, no. Once they're defrosted they're in the fridge. 250g coffee doesn't last more than a few days for me anyway, but if you were worried about it you could split down again to 125g, so you've never got more than two or three days for mould to set in.
- mtts 6y agoNot if you use zip loc bags