Why do coffee beans have to grow beans all their lives?

Food has its shelf life, coffee beans shelf life is generally 1 year, but for the pursuit of high-quality coffee, just shelf life is obviously not enough, then coffee beans flavor life cycle how long? Is coffee the fresher the better? Friends who like red wine know that good red wine needs to be opened 1 hour in advance before drinking, so that red wine oxidation, that will be more conducive to the release of aroma. Although the principle is different, coffee does have a similar practice, which we call bean cultivation.

As with other coffee topics, bean cultivation is also controversial in the coffee industry, and there is no final conclusion. As the so-called opinions differ, I can only talk about it in combination with my own personal experience.

juvenile--newborn calf

Freshly roasted coffee is full of vitality, reflected in the coffee extract, that is, the beans are very full of gas, a little water will expand.

At this time, because the coffee is too active, the oil will be rough when making Espresso, and it will soon disperse. When using hand flushing or other utensils to extract, the flavor is bright and mellow, and its sour taste is often too sharp, just like people in childhood, active, simple but emotionally unstable, and not stable enough, at this time, beans need to be raised.

Bean cultivation is said to be sealed beans, there is said to be open in the air beans, which is not I dare not judge, but I personally prefer the latter, that is, just baked beans need to maintain proper contact with the air within a certain period of time.

The length of time to raise beans depends more on the roasting degree and extraction method. The coffee that is roasted lighter and extracted with utensils can generally be raised for 1 to 3 days, and the coffee that is roasted deeper and extracted with Italian coffee beans needs to be raised for 3 to 5 days.

Young adults--the year of drinking

Nurtured coffee beans should be sealed as soon as possible, saying that beauty is easy to old, flowers are not red for a hundred days, so are coffee beans. Coffee beans flavor at the peak stage generally only lasts 2 to 3 weeks, up to 1 month, so we can also think of coffee beans shelf life is 1 month. Of course, through some artificial means, such as filling inert gases, etc., aging can be appropriately delayed, but the laws of nature are not reversed by human beings.

Decline Period--Hero's Late Years

A seventy-year-old beauty or a twenty-year-old cardamom girl, which will be more attractive? A top-quality coffee that has entered a declining period may not perform as well in flavor and aroma as a regular coffee in its prime. Therefore, when purchasing coffee beans, we should not only look at the brand and variety, but also the production date is a very important parameter.

How to judge what period coffee is in may need to write a few more articles to explain roughly, but in any case we should remember that the freshness of coffee beans is very important, when drinking coffee, can not only recognize the brand, and this is also the Chinese Starbucks has been criticized by industry insiders.

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