Is Your Craft Coffee Roaster Ruining Your Coffee With Packaging?

 

If you didn’t jump in on the craft beer or craft cocktail craze, you may have given in when it comes to craft coffee. And we get it, we love our craft coffee too, especially when it comes from local, independent roasters. But some of those roasters may be making packaging choices that are negatively affecting the flavor of your coffee. How can you tell? By the bag, of course.

 

Traditionally, coffee beans are stored in air-tight bags with one-way valves to allow CO2 and other gases from the roasting process to escape. The better roasters will even flush out the oxygen from the bag before loading it with beans. Any bag that doesn’t have a valve to let gasses escape, or any bag that’s porous and allows oxygen to get in (think those cute craft paper bags) are doing your coffee beans a great disservice.

 

 

Here’s what Klaus Thomsen, co-owner of Danish roaster Coffee Collective had to say in an interview with Sprudge:

 

“Our experiments figured out that the best thing is to remove the oxygen, so we flushed with nitrogen, straight from the beginning, so there's none of that oxidation happening. So that means that your degassing can sort of happen on its own,” said Thomsen. Even if your coffee hasn't been nitrogen-flushed, a well-sealed valve bag should go a long way towards keeping its contents intact before brewing.”

 

 

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