Here are the fast facts on how to store coffee beans and ground coffee correctly for maximum freshness and flavor.
Best way to store coffee beans.
For the best cup of coffee start with quality beans and store them properly to maximize freshness and flavor.
To preserve your beans fresh roasted flavor as long as possible store them in an opaque air tight container at room temperature.
Your beans greatest enemies are air moisture heat and light.
When stocking your favorite blend at home avoid air moisture heat and light.
Keep beans airtight and cool.
They are containers that typically hold between 1 and 1.
The best container in which to store your coffee beans would be airtight and opaque.
Coffee is hygroscopic meaning it absorbs moisture odors and flavors from the surrounding air.
Once you ve broken the beans and that vessel with a grinder the coffee.
One with a one way valve or a vacuum seal would be ideal walker agrees and says they should also be stored away from heat light and moisture so how exactly do air humidity heat and light affect coffee beans.
Coffee does best stored in a dry airtight container.
The way he describes it is that the beans themselves are the best vessel for protecting the quality of the coffee.