Freezing Coffee Beans - Why You Should Do It?

Why you should freeze your coffee beans?

"Can you freeze coffee?" has been a question that I have been asked a number of times. There are two main reason why you might want to freeze your coffee beans after they have been roasted;

FREEZING KEEPS THE FLAVOUR BETTER

Freezing food is a great way to preserve its flavours and keeping it from going bad. Everyone know that if you freeze some bolognese sauce today, it will taste the same (or even better!) next week.

So why would it work with coffee also?

The problem with coffee is that once it has been roasted it will start to age (= lose its good flavours) and day after day it will start to taste more and more dull and boring. After a few more days or weeks you will start tasting staled flavours (=kind of bitter and dirty) as the oils in the coffee will start to stale. So in optimal circumstances you would brew the coffee in 3-14 days after roasting but we all know that isn't realistically happening. So you will need a way to store coffee for longer periods.