Give them a go or just bin them?

Pompeyexile

We have a chest freezer away from the house and over time it has gotten pretty full, so I thought I would have a rummage to see what needed chucking and what I could use, and to my shame there languishing at the bottom hidden by all sorts of other stuff, I came across 7 bags - each 250g - of various coffee beans that I bought from Rave a while back.

When I say a while back, the roasing date on them was… August 2016.

Now they have been frozen all this time, so whilst I probably know the answer, should I give them a go or just bin them?

What would you do?

DavecUK

Pompeyexile Give them a go you know it makes sense. mark and I drank coffee from some 7 year old beans that hadn’t been in a freezer.

tompoland

Pompeyexile think you’ll know after the first pour. Grind fine and if it’s a gusher then they’ve probably dried out too much. Worth a crack though. Stranger things have happened.

Would love to hear how you go.

dutchy101

Nothing to lose by giving them a go. Will be interested to see how you get on.

Inspector

I think if you send couple of them back to Rave, they would display them in their museum 😄

MediumRoastSteam

Didn’t some people open a tin of corned beef or whatever it was they found in their lader which dated back to the Second World War, and there wasn’t anything wrong with it?

2016? That was yesterday in the grand scheme of things. 😉

Edit: it was a tin of lard.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096001/German-pensioner-Hans-Feldmeiers-tin-64-year-old-lard-good-eat.html

Pompeyexile

Well I dialled in a bag of Rave’s Signature Blend and it tasted alright… to my limited palette anyway. The notes says chocolate, caramel and nuts and I have to admit there was definitely a real sweetness and I could detect back notes of dark chocolate and yes, even a slight hazel nuttyness to it. I really expected to be spitting it out and chucking the rest in the bin.

Instead, I’ve split it into 36g portions really quick into small frozen jars and will enjoy the rest. Given that, I’m hoping the other 6 bags will be as forgiving as there are some interesting ones there…

Sumatra Jagong Village, Sumatra Acehtengah, Papua New Guinea Elimbaria, Costa Rica Cascara Perla Negra Coffee Cherry Tree…Oh, and a bag of their Fudge Blend. Plus a bag of Columbian Augustino Forest Estate - this one is actually from York Coffee Emporium not Rave.

dutchy101

Result. A good strategy to sort them into small batches

fl13dl1c3

Good to know that the beans are still good after being frozen that long. For you it must feel like finding a bunch of money that fell into your sofa.