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Rest Is Best

Rest Is Best

Brew Guide

October 7th, 2024

Square Mile

Rest Is Best

WHY WE RECOMMEND RESTING YOUR COFFEE

Here are a few tips on why we roast to ship and what you can do to get the best out of your beans. 

For you to enjoy your beans at their best, we send out freshly roasted coffee. This ensures that, regardless of your location, you will receive your coffee as close to its roast date as possible (postal or courier service and customs permitting. The traceability of roast dates and batch numbers plays a paramount role in our quality control processes. It also upholds the spirit of transparency the speciality coffee sector strives towards, an aspect we find paramount to the integrity of our offering. 

So, why rest your beans? When green coffee undergoes the roasting process, it releases moisture, allowing pockets of CO2 to become trapped inside. This is, for instance, the very important reason why coffee bags have degassing valves; instead of bags exploding, the trapped gas is allowed to expel over time. 

How does this affect the flavour of coffee? Imagine eating food that is too hot, you don’t really get to taste anything except the steam in your mouth. It is only once it has cooled slightly that you get to experience the aromas and flavours coming through. Leaving coffee to rest for anything between 5 - 14 days post-roast offers much more clarity in the cup. Rest allows for you to extract flavour from the coffee rather than the trapped C02, often perceived as high acidity and sourness in fresh roasts. 

We recommend letting your filter coffee rest for between 5 and 14 days; however, to get the best out of your espresso, let it rest for 7-14 days after it has been roasted. It is essential to keep coffee sealed and stored in a cool, dry environment. Although we recommend storing coffee at a lower temperature, please do not rest it in the fridge. Moisture speeds up the oxidation process and diminishes the flavour; however, you can read more on freezing your coffee here

How does resting coffee impact the shelf life of your beans? Revisiting a bag of coffee six months after you opened it will never be fun. Our approach is simple: once you’ve rested and opened your bag of coffee, don’t keep it for later. Brew and enjoy it till the last bean. 

Happy brewing, and remember to allow a few extra days for resting when you place your next order. 

 

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