Do you still not know how to choose coffee beans? The three simplest ways to identify whether the coffee beans you buy are fresh in minutes

Nowadays, more and more people make their own coffee at home, so buying coffee beans has become the most challenging task. Dahua has also introduced the importance of the freshness of coffee beans in previous articles. Only by extending the existence time of its aromatic resins can we taste the real unique flavor of coffee.

The origin, variety, and production date of coffee beans are all displayed on the packaging, but how fresh is it? You need to judge it yourself. So, how do you judge whether a bag of coffee beans you bought is fresh, or how do you judge whether coffee beans that have been stored for a while are still fresh? Today, Dahua will introduce you to the simplest judgment method, which is called the three-step judgment method: smell, look, and peel .

smell

The aroma of coffee beans is a label of it. Whether it is good or bad, fresh or not, you can have a general understanding of it just by smelling it.

Get close to the coffee beans and take a deep sniff. Fresh coffee beans will emit a charming and rich coffee aroma. On the contrary, stale coffee beans will only have a little fragrance left, and may even have an oily smell, just like the oily smell of nuts that have been left for a long time. There is no point in grinding such coffee beans, because no matter how carefully you grind and make them, you will never get a good cup of coffee.

look

When observing the appearance of coffee beans with our eyes, we mainly want to see whether the coffee beans are evenly roasted. Half-cooked coffee beans will naturally not taste good. Coffee beans that show the same color and luster all over the body are considered evenly roasted beans, and their aroma will reach its peak only when they are evenly roasted.

Of course, coffee beans with different roasting degrees have different shades of color. We will not explain them in detail here, but will introduce them separately in future articles.

peel

To judge the freshness of coffee by peeling the coffee beans, we mainly need to look at three points. First, how easy it is to peel, second, the sound when peeling, and third, the color of the inner and outer layers after peeling the beans.

Fresh coffee should be easy to peel and make a crisp sound when peeling. The color of the inner layer of coffee beans that are roasted evenly should be the same as the outer color after peeling.

It is very difficult to peel stale coffee beans, and the sound is very dull and a bit muffled. If the inner layer of the beans is lighter in color than the outer layer after peeling, it means that the coffee beans were roasted at too high a temperature, and the aroma of the coffee beans will also be affected to a certain extent.

I have introduced a simple method to judge the freshness of coffee beans. I hope that you can use this simple method to make a simple judgment on the coffee beans after buying them or before making coffee in the future. If they are fresh, then start making coffee.