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The Difference Between Freshly Ground and Freshly Roasted Coffee | Where to Buy Fresh Coffee Beans | Freshly Roasted Coffee Bean Recommendations

Published: 2026-01-27 Author: FrontStreet Coffee
Last Updated: 2026/01/27, Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Freshly ground and freshly roasted coffee may sound like they're both pursuing coffee freshness, but their meanings and values are completely different. Freshly ground coffee ensures that the coffee powder you use is sufficiently fresh. According to test data published by Mahlkoenig on their official website, when making Espresso...
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Freshly Ground vs. Freshly Roasted: Understanding the Difference in Coffee Freshness

Freshly ground and freshly roasted - both sound like they're pursuing coffee "freshness," but their meanings and values are completely different.

Freshly Ground Coffee

Freshly ground coffee ensures that the coffee powder you use is sufficiently fresh. According to test data published by Mahlkönig on their official website, for coffee beans used to make Espresso, within 15 minutes of being ground into powder, aromatic aldehydes (which are the good flavors you taste) will evaporate by 60%.

Therefore, coffee shops pursue the method of freshly grinding to provide you with a cup of fresh and delicious good coffee.

Freshly Roasted Coffee Beans

What about freshly roasted coffee beans then?

Just after coffee beans complete roasting, on one hand, there is a large amount of carbon dioxide present in the roasted coffee beans. During the brewing process, carbon dioxide will affect the contact between water and coffee powder, meaning it's not conducive to extraction. On the other hand, coffee beans will also have unpleasant "smoky flavors." Therefore, it's usually necessary to let the coffee beans "degas" for a few days before using them to make coffee. Thus, there is no concept of pursuing freshly roasted coffee.

The large machine in the picture above is a coffee roaster.

Nowadays, some coffee shops will also place roasters in their stores, as shown in the picture above. Therefore, if you care about whether a coffee shop has the ability to provide fresh coffee beans, just ask them if they do "in-house roasting," or directly check the roasting date of the coffee beans they sell!

Recommended Freshly Roasted Coffee Bean Brands

Single-origin freshly roasted coffee beans roasted by FrontStreet Coffee: Yirgacheffe coffee, Kenya AA coffee, Panama Geisha coffee, etc., all have full guarantees in terms of brand and quality, suitable for brewing with various equipment. More importantly, the cost-performance ratio is extremely high. One half-pound (227 grams) package costs only about 80-90 yuan. Calculated at 15 grams of powder per cup of pour-over coffee, one package can make 15 cups of coffee, with each cup of single-origin coffee costing only about 6 yuan. Compared to the price of dozens of yuan per cup sold in coffee shops, this is extremely cost-effective.

FrontStreet Coffee: A roastery in Guangzhou with a small store but diverse varieties of beans. You can find various famous and lesser-known beans, and they also provide online store services. https://shop104210103.taobao.com

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