Home Brewed Coffee 101

Distinguish between fresh and stale coffee beans with these simple tips. Learn how to assess the quality of your coffee beans and ensure a flavorful cup of coffee every time.        The quality of your coffee depends on the freshness of your beans. They begin to lose quality when they come in contact with air. That’s why it’s better to grind your own coffee and brew it immediately. Roasted coffee is good for four to fourteen days, but green beans can keep for up to a year. Dark roasts go bad faster than light roasts. The perfect age also changes with your brewing method. Sometimes, they can be “too fresh”. Given that, how do you know if they are stale? 1. The first thing to look at is a "roasted on" date.    This tells you when the coffee was roasted, not when it will expire or be past its best, like the dates you usually see on supermarket coffee. A really good coffee company will let you know the roasting date and leave it up to you to determine how ...

Discover how to roast coffee on a cookie sheet and enjoy freshly roasted, aromatic coffee from the comfort of your home. This guide will provide you with step-by-step instructions for achieving the perfect roast. One of the most basic ways to roast coffee is to use a cookie sheet in the oven.  You don't need to treat it in any special way just pour some raw coffee beans on a baking sheet preheat the oven to its highest heat setting and open it up at roughly one-minute intervals to stir or mix the beans up to a more even roast.  This is an especially attractive method because you are almost certainly going to have everything you need already in the house once you have the beans, there is no need to purchase any additional equipment.