Good Morning,
I've have been roasting green coffee beans for over 2 years....I love it,
having lots of fun and enjoying good cups of coffee from all over the world.
Below is my process:
1. When I receive my green beans from SM, I remove them from the
plastic bag and put them into lunch size paper bags (of course I
label the bags).
2. After I roast some beans I put them in a mason jar and place a
lid on top. I don't screw it on, I just place it on top.
3. I put the jar in a place where it doesn't get any direct sun and leave
it there for 2 days.
4. After that I grind some beans and make a couple of cups of coffee.
5. I vacuum seal the rest of the roasted beans and keep them on
a shelf away from light and heat.
I was out of town for over three months a short while ago. When I returned
and opened and used the beans that were vacuum sealed, it was as if they were
just roasted a few days before GREAT.
I hope this helps you........Dorothy
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Dorothy, why do you remove the beans from the plastic bags and put them = into paper bags that you then have to label? I mean, the plastic bags = are already labeled. Aren't they suitable for storing the beans? Welcome to the homeroasting list, by the way! Your two years experience = certainly beats my five weeks of experience! I enjoyed reading your = post. Gerald |
Hi Gerald..... Welcome to the world of home roasting. You are in for lots of fun and some GREAT coffee. Anyway, the green beans need to breath and plastic bags don't allow that to happen. It's recommended to store the beans in either burlap bags, paper bags or cloth bags (Sweet Maria's sell cloth bags). I have all three and use them all at one time or another. Have fun.....enjoy roasting.....contact me anytime....let me know how you're doing with the roasting.......Dorothy |
<Snip> I'm not Dorothy, but I play the Wizard of Oz, and on Friday nights I sometimes dress up as Dorothy. Gerald, The plastic bags do not let the beans breathe. If you are only going to have the beans a short time, I think they will be fine in the plastic, but if you are like me and have a stash of 100lbs+ and growing, you probably won't be roasting it all in the next two or three weeks. When I order coffee, I also order cloth bags for it, and I keep a few extras on hand for times like last night when I was in a hurry and forgot to add them to the order. I really like the cloth, I just wish that the bags had an inside "flap" to prevent any chance of leaks. I have some concern that for long term storage paper may alter the beans flavor, but I don't think cotton will. But cloth or paper, the idea for long term storage is to let the beans breathe. I have also been looking at wine storage coolers as a possibility for storing the bagged beans, or possibly building some sort of humidor/cooler. I have to believe that storing them in a controlled environment would help longevity. regards, Randy |
--Apple-Mail-32-415019389 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset -ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed yikes--most of my stash is in the original plastic bags. hate burlap-- smells like newspaper and makes the beans smell like it too. On Mar 9, 2006, at 8:45 AM, ConradArms wrote: <Snip> Sandy www.sandyandina.com --Apple-Mail-32-415019389 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset O-8859-1 yikes--most of my stash is in = the original plastic bags. hate burlap--smells like newspaper and makes = the beans smell like it too. On Mar 9, 2006, at 8:45 AM, = ConradArms = wrote: |
SweetMaria's has washable cotton bags that work great. On 3/9/06, Sandy Andina wrote: <Snip> lls <Snip> me <Snip> to <Snip> 're <Snip> -- Brent Roasting in an SC/TO & i'Roast2 |