Common sense of how to choose coffee beans

Coffee beans come into contact with coffee friends every day, of course, every coffee friend wants to brew the freshest coffee every day, but the roasted coffee beans can only be preserved for 7 days after opening. The selection of coffee beans has become a key step to ensure the freshness of coffee beans. Of course, the shelf life of coffee beans is also related to the preservation method of coffee beans. Today, the editor will teach you how to choose coffee beans.

The work of the barista of Casque Coffee

No matter what kind of coffee beans, freshness is an important factor affecting the quality. When choosing and buying, grab one or two coffee beans and chew them in your mouth. If there is a crisp sound (indicating that the coffee beans are not wet) and the tooth pods stay fragrant is the top grade, but it is best to squeeze them with your hands to feel whether they are solid, rather than buying empty-shell coffee. The method of selecting coffee beans is mainly divided into several steps: smell, see, peel, and several steps:

1) smell: if you put the coffee beans close to your nose, you can clearly smell the strong aroma of the coffee beans, which means that the coffee beans are fresh enough. On the contrary, if the coffee beans are light, oily or greasy, it means that the coffee beans are no longer fresh. Such coffee beans can only be discarded, and even skilled baristas cannot extract a cup of high-quality coffee with stale coffee beans.

2) look: spread out the coffee beans on your hand, determine the origin and variety of coffee beans, and the uniformity of baking, fresh and good coffee beans have round and full shape, shiny, high-quality coffee beans have uniform particle size and no defective beans. Bad traders often mix coffee beans with defective beans.

3) peel: take a coffee bean, fresh coffee beans can be easily peeled off, and there will be a crisp sound. The color of the outer skin and the inner layer of the beans are the same, indicating that the firepower of roasting is uniform, and it takes a lot of effort to peel off the stale coffee beans, and the color of the outer skin and the inner layer of the coffee beans with uneven roasting temperature are often different.