The selection and Preservation of Coffee beans how to buy Raw beans

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Now we know that raw coffee beans can be kept for a year or two, but roasted coffee beans can only be preserved for two weeks to a month or so. After considering various factors, some people try to bake by themselves, while others start by buying fresh ripe beans. No matter which one you decide to use, you might as well refer to the purchase and preservation tips described below.

How to buy raw beans

If you want to bake yourself, in addition to the bean baking equipment, you have to prepare raw beans. For ordinary people, it is not difficult to buy roasted coffee beans, which can be bought at the mall (but most of them are of poor freshness). As for buying raw coffee beans, they do not know where to start. In fact, you just need to pay attention to whether there is a bean roaster in the coffee shop near your home (not a chain coffee shop, but a general regional coffee shop), because a bean roaster means that the store can bake by itself; if you want to bake it yourself, you need raw beans. If you don't know what the baking machine looks like, or if the store doesn't put the baking machine in the store, just ask the clerk.

According to experience, there are always one or two coffee shops in an area that can bake their own coffee. In addition to baking the coffee beans they need, they even supply the coffee beans needed by several other coffee shops in the area. There may not be many kinds of raw beans to choose from in this regional coffee shop, but it's always a start, and the price of these raw beans should not be too outrageous. In fact, you can drink the same type of coffee sold in the store before buying raw beans from the store, although the baking type is not necessarily suitable for you, at least as a reference for taste.

If you want to buy high-grade high-quality raw beans, it may be faster to find them online. At present, there are several domestic manufacturers to provide online ordering of high-quality raw beans, many kinds and reasonable prices. If it is not enough, there are many foreign raw bean merchants offering mail order, and they offer a wide variety of raw beans, especially the low price per pound of raw beans, but they have to bear the freight and possible quarantine procedures for ordering raw beans from abroad. Unless this raw bean cannot be found in Taiwan, ordering from foreign manufacturers is not necessarily cheaper than buying it at home. When buying raw coffee beans online, the most important thing is to choose a reputable manufacturer. Whether a manufacturer is reliable or not can be judged by the following points:

■ detailed raw bean data:

Including producing country, producing area, batch and raw bean grade, the more detailed the better. According to the data of batches, because the producing area of coffee beans is often very large, the same type of coffee beans will be harvested in different batches. Different batches of coffee in the same producing area may not taste the same.

■ manufacturer's rating for each type of coffee:

Because the coffee beans come from so many sources and the quality varies, manufacturers must filter them before they can sell them to consumers. These ratings indicate that the coffee beans have been tested by the manufacturers themselves before they are purchased.

■ Baking recommendations:

If you want to test, it must be baked, if a bean is not baked to the best state, it is impossible to get the right score. The samples received by manufacturers must be raw beans, and good manufacturers will keep trying until they think they have reached the best baking level. So providing baking advice not only saves consumers time to explore, but also allows others to examine the credibility of their scores.

After buying the raw beans, please check first: is there any mildew? Are there any bugs? If there are any defects, you should respond to the manufacturer immediately. The preservation of raw coffee beans is very simple, as long as it is packed in clean and breathable cotton or linen bags and placed in a well-ventilated, dry and cool place. It is better if there is an electronic moistureproof box, but the cost is higher. In a good environment, raw coffee beans can be preserved for one or two years without going bad.

The above text is extracted from "Coffee Taste Chronicle-mellow revised Edition" / Building Block Culture