Look for the roast date
When purchasing coffee, look for the date the coffee was roasted—not the sale by date. If a coffee roaster does not label the package with the date the coffee was…
Long term storage
For those who live outside of Ketchikan in Southeast Alaska, access to high quality coffee is either by mail order or by purchasing in bulk amounts when you come to…
Storage and freshness
There is a correlation between coffee freshness and coffee storage (i.e., how, where, and for how long). From the moment coffee is roasted, staling reactions begin to occur. These staling…
Can coffee be too fresh?
Yes. Roasting coffee causes complex chemical reactions to take place within the coffee seed. One byproduct of these chemical reactions is the formation of CO2, or carbon dioxide, within the…