I have a bag of freshly roasted coffee and I want to let it rest for a week before brewing it. If I tape up the one way valve (as recommended by @DavecUK ) and put it in the freezer and take it out a week or two later - has it rested or do I need to take the tape off and keep it on the counter for a week to rest it?
Apologies if this question has been answered many times before!
I don’t know but I’ll be interested in reading the replies.
I received some coffees a couples of weeks ago and immediately put them in the freezer, probably 2 days after roasting, my latest delivery on the 5th was roasted on the 3rd and is currently unfrozen and will be frozen probably on the 9th.
But I’m not sure which is best for flavour development.
From what I understand you rest the coffee then freeze it. Freezing slows/stops the ‘resting’ period so putting it in after 10 days and leaving it 4 weeks it has rested 10 days.
I rest them before freezing, otherwise I found the beans needed to be rested post freezing.
Rest first then freeze.
Then you get into the open the frozen bag to remove beans vs vacuum pack and freeze several days worth in individual bags debate, vs many other workable approaches,etc. Lots of posts on that. Just search.
