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Home Coffee Bean Recommendations

When it comes to coffee beans without brand names, focus on origin and roast level. Freshness is also extremely important. Can you buy good beans on Taobao? Of course you can! Choose based on your taste preferences, needs, and budget. Taobao also has excellent sellers with large-scale roasting equipment that homes typically don't have. When selecting shops, carefully examine the roasting equipment and bean varieties they use. From blended beans, you can gradually advance to competition-grade beans, trying different varieties to determine your preferred flavors. Of course, if you want to experience the joy of roasting, you can also choose to purchase roasters and green beans online for home roasting. Generally, beans should be consumed within one month—don't buy too much at once; buy more when you're running low. After opening, store them in metal sealed containers with rubber gaskets for best preservation.

Many friends buy coffee beans only to find that improper storage causes rapid flavor loss. So today, let's discuss how to store coffee beans at home to slow down flavor deterioration.

First, let me clarify one point: for roasted coffee beans, the shelf life isn't particularly important because it's usually quite long. The preservation period is what we should focus on. As for ground coffee—well, there seems to be no way to extend its preservation period. For good coffee, it's best to grind fresh.

Freshly roasted home coffee beans undergo oxidation through contact with oxygen over time. Their contained oils deteriorate, and aromatic compounds gradually evaporate. Temperature, humidity, sunlight, and other storage conditions accelerate this aging process.

The moment coffee beans contact air, their flavor begins to fade. A whole coffee bean has limited surface area in contact with air, but when ground into powder, the surface area increases thousands of times, creating countless surfaces exposed to air. This causes rapid flavor loss, typically requiring extraction within fifteen minutes of grinding. Therefore, when making coffee, grind fresh and use immediately to ensure the quality of every cup. Please, please, please never buy pre-ground coffee—important things need to be said three times.

Therefore, extending the preservation period of coffee beans requires specialized packaging and storage methods.

Coffee beans gradually release carbon dioxide after roasting. Freshly roasted beans typically cannot be consumed immediately because they contain large amounts of carbon dioxide and smoky flavors from roasting. This is why they need to "rest" or "de-gas." The resting time is usually determined by the roast level—lighter roasts require shorter resting times, darker roasts need longer times. Generally, about seven days is reasonable. Coffee bean flavors reach their optimal tasting period around seven to ten days, with flavors continuing to develop before gradually declining after a month. Therefore, we recommend consuming freshly roasted coffee beans within one month, preferably not exceeding two months. They won't spoil, but the aroma will become increasingly faint.

Consequently, coffee packaging is designed based on post-roasting characteristics. Besides preventing oxidation through air contact, packaging must also handle the carbon dioxide produced by coffee beans. Of course, safety for food contact must be the top priority.

The enemies of coffee beans are: oxygen, moisture, temperature, and light. Therefore, the keys to preservation are: sealing, light avoidance, moisture protection, and degassing.

Based on these theoretical principles, we need to choose appropriate containers for storing coffee beans.

Home Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee's roasted specialty home coffee beans—such as Washed Yirgacheffe, Kenya AA, and Panama Maragogipe—offer comprehensive guarantees in both brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. More importantly, they offer exceptional value. A half-pound (227-gram) bag costs only about 80-90 RMB. Calculating at 15 grams per pour-over cup, one bag can make 15 cups of coffee, meaning each specialty coffee costs only about 6 RMB. Compared to café prices that often run dozens of RMB per cup, this represents excellent value.

FrontStreet Coffee: A Guangzhou-based roastery with a small shop but diverse bean varieties, where you can find both famous and lesser-known beans. They also provide online store services at https://shop104210103.taobao.com

Important Notice :

前街咖啡 FrontStreet Coffee has moved to new addredd:

FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

Tel:020 38364473