Can we talk about people who store their beans in the freezer

I keep seeing posts online where folks swear by freezing their coffee beans. I tried it once with a bag from a local roaster in Portland. After a week the beans tasted flat and stale. I think the moisture in the freezer messes with the oils. Anyone else notice this or am I doing it wrong?

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matthews2123d ago

Laugh out loud, sounds like @murphy.blair and I went through the same freezer-to-cupboard conversion therapy. I did the exact same thing, bought a bag from a roaster in Seattle, threw half in the deep freeze, and a month later those beans tasted like they'd been on a depressing vacation in a damp basement. Freezer's fine if you're hoarding for the apocalypse, but for that nice single origin you actually want to enjoy, just keep it in a cool, dark cabinet and quit with the whole cryogenic bean experiment. Your mileage may vary, but mine definitely came out tasting like regret and stale air.

murphy.blair23d ago

Used to be a freezer guy for years, thought I was doing it right. Then I grabbed a bag of single origin from a roaster down in Austin and left it in the cupboard on accident. Tasted way better after a week than anything I ever pulled out of the freezer. The moisture thing is real, especially if you open the bag at all while it's still cold. Those oils just get wrecked.

victorb1711d ago

Freeze em in small airtight bags with as much air squeezed out as possible and you wont get that moisture problem. I've kept beans for months that way and they tasted just as good as fresh.