Do you roast your own coffee beans?

thanks for all the replies.

regarding freezing intact
and not-ground BEANS…
this is what i have so far:

1. freezing is fine IF they are frozen ONCE and thawed ONCE.
2. freezing is fine IF the beans are protected in some way.
3. freezing is fine IF taste is not the overriding concern.

The bottom line is that lower temperatures do slow the staling process. Coffee also has incredible ability to absorb odors so I don’t mess around with any bag containers. I use only sealed mason jars for storage.

I generally roast every 7-10 days so I don’t worry about temperature and aging. But I do notice a difference between summer and winter during those 7-10 days! I have frozen beans (in sealed mason jars) if I will be out of town and need a stash to last a few days when I get home. It’s better than leaving for week(s) at room temperature.

regarding unroasted and intact coffee beans,
how does the staling process effect longevity?

IMO 18+ year green bean roasting experience, I’ve noticed that at about 14 months, in sealed poly bags, beans started to turn a ‘straw color.’ But who knows how long that they were sitting at the merchant?

They still roasted fine, but one has to do a lot of experimentation to truly determine any degradation and I’m not that hardcore.

Chris

The staling chemistry process for green vs roasted is entirely different. To be conservative I would say the green beans will last at least a year… but there are exceptions; mostly dry process beans can fade in their more subtle flavor character.

Roasted beans have expanded by 50-70% in volume, opening the cell structure to oxidizing and the oils are more exposed as well.

Roasting coffee is nothing less than a complete transformation of the bean. To demonstrate this, try grinding and brewing coffee with green beans! :confounded:

thanks.

learning from experts
is my preferred way.

ok.
three scenerios:

1. green coffee beans which have been frozen for at least 6 months. then thawed. roasted. ground. brewed. what would you expect to be the outcome?
2. roasted beans frozen for 6 months. thawed. ground……etc.
3. ground beans……etc.

really, just curious.
although i do not drink coffee,
friends and relatives do and i would
like to have something they would like
to drink when they arrive unannounced.
easy as possible and flavorable as necessary.

We can talk about the voodoo behind home roasting, but if you do roast, do a batch, wait 24-36 hours in a sealed glass jar and then grind what you might prepare for over 1-2 days and just repeat the process until you’re out of roasted coffee, starting again.

It’s ‘science,’ but it’s not rocket science,’

Chris

so….
roast and seal, and
then wait how long
before grinding?

i might roast/seal Day One
then Day 44, company comes.

yes, i realize this gets kind of picky,
but your posts have educated me more
than Wikipedia/Youtube/etc.

If they don’t know any better, than 44 days is what it is

Too long, IMO.

Chris

I used to roast my own coffee every once a week using frying pan, until family take my weekend time.

It started at 2012 when I got 1 kg green bean from a quiz.

It was wonderful experience and I will definitely do that again if any chance (time!) is given. My dream is to buy a micro coffee roaster.

For now, I buy small packs of roasted beans from local roasteries every 2 or 4 weeks.

COFFEE
Less a science than a religion for most.
But actually is is SCIENCE.
And the facts just say, the coffee you like is the good coffee.
I roast coffee beans now and then, when I’m in Laos. And definitely this is the best coffee in the world, for me, but that does not mean everybody else makes it wrong.
As said, the coffe you like is the good coffe.
No religion
No myth
No pricy shittery (cat shite coffee, forgot it’s name)
No pricy stuff sold by a hyperactive playing Jobs in a cringey manner

Have a good cup and enjoy**.**

Has one of you tried the coffee cherries as they come from the bush?
The sweet juiciness?
The bean inside, that splits in two, an incredibly complex taste?
You can actually make a drink from this!
People use it’s effects for medicine since beginning of time.
If I read here

then I must think that there is something wrong with the green beans you can buy in those sealed plastic bags.

Well that’s true. This whole track wasn’t to delegitimize existing coffee as its presented, but merely to expand awareness. I am still enjoying my “dead coffee,” but yeah… just a tinge bit less knowing it could be much better than it is. And I am going to get into roasting my own coffee beans. Started reading reviews for green coffee beans on Amazon and it looks like there’s some good candidates. Now I just have to watch more videos on roasting with low cost methods that achieve the same as the pricer ones (but just less pizzaz and convenience).

I imagine it doesn’t taste much at all like coffee beans that have been roasted. But perhaps it’s still a good taste in its own right, or something you can acclimate to liking, like Kombucha.

Do you ever find that sometimes 1 cup is just not enough, but 2 is too much? i would like to cut back a little bit so i don’t have to roast so many beans,

thanks, folks.

here is what i will try:

1. buy roasted and ground beans and then seal them in a glass Mason jar at room temperature.
2. buy roasted/ground//Mason/and freeze.
3. buy Maxwell House in the can.

when visitors arrive, they will have their choice.
i do not expect any coffee drinkers this month.

Blecch. Mum used to get MH, and I always hated making/having coffee there. It was like coffee-scented sawdust.

When it has to be a quick cup of good coffee, I make Bei & Nannini Miscela Colomba in a manually tuned Bialetti.

Some of the religious fanatics my now scream heresy, but I like it like that.

All the house smells like coffee, the cup has a wonderful profumo, and the not too hot black juice of life is pure salaciousness.

Take out religion, add sensuality and sensibility.

LOL!

It’s a cup of caffeinated liquid, it’s not a blow up doll!

I try not to fret too much, but I do have a minor routine that I follow.

Chris

Blow up doll? What?

ROTFL

No. I’m just a coffee addict.