A friend brought me some coffee beans from Germany. I put them away and forgot I had them. I found them a few days ago but now im wondering if they are any good. They dont smell nearly as strong as they did when she gave them to me 2 yrs ago!
Does anyone know if they are still good?
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Answer by million$ gon
If they were already roasted, then they are not good anymore. I had coffee beens from a couple years ago too, and tried it out. I could drink it, but it certainly does not taste anywhere near as good as fresh ones I bought currently, though they were both the same kind. Roasted coffee beans oxidize and the compounds in the coffee change. You will have more "free-radicals" - cancer-causing chemicals from old coffee, whereas freshly roasted coffee will provide the opposite, anti-oxidant chemicals that disintegrate free-radicals. Old stale coffee will also taste more bitter. Freshly roasted coffee beans, less than 2 weeks old since being roasted will virtually have its own mellow sweetness, and you could even do without sugar and milk/cream. Thats the way the original users of coffee had it, the desert nomads would carry unroasted beans, and roast them the day they needed to make coffee, and drank it without milk and sugar, as it was impractical and unnecessary. Unroasted "green" coffee beans last longer, don't go stale or rancid as fast as roasted coffee does, though its just not convenient for our modern 'western' (North-American or European) lifestyles, so people here don't know it. Its hard to find unroasted coffee beans, "green coffee". Coffee companies ought to put their production/roasting date on their product so they don't get bad reputation for what used to be good fresh coffee but after 2 years went stale.
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they just gradually taste worse every day. so drink da coffee now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteif they were roasted, which im pretty sure they will, they're fine....they wont nearly be as strong as they were way back when, but ur prolly not that much of a coffee person to notice...after all u did forget about them for like two years :/
ReplyDeleteOn Average, coffee beans will stay fresh for about 2 weeks.You can put them in the freezer and they will stay fresh.
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