Espresso Bean Roast & Age Freshness Tool

Evaluate your coffee beans' roast level, age, and freshness to adjust grind, dose, and extraction for best espresso flavor.

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Optimizes bean usage.

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We ask for roast date, roast level, storage method, current taste, bean type, degassing bag, and resting goal because these determine freshness window. These inputs ensure peak flavor. Limitation: the tool uses average degassing times and may not reflect specific bean characteristics.

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Espresso Bean Freshness Assessment

Overview

Based on your selection of beans that are 8-14 days old, medium roast, single origin, and stored in an airtight valve bag, we will discuss the implications of bean age, flavor changes, and necessary adjustments to achieve optimal espresso extraction.

Degassing & Freshness Window

Degassing refers to the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) that occurs after roasting. Freshly roasted beans will continue to degas for about 3-14 days. Since your beans are 8-14 days old and degassed, they are nearing the end of their ideal freshness window, which typically lasts about 2-3 weeks for best flavor.

Flavor Changes

• Bitter/Over: This indicates that your extraction may be over-extracting flavors due to either grind size or brewing parameters. As beans age, their acidity decreases, and bitterness can become more pronounced if not managed.

Recommendations

To improve the flavor of your espresso and mitigate the bitterness, consider the following adjustments:

1. Grind Size Adjustment

• Action: Coarse grind size - Since your espresso is tasting bitter, adjusting to a slightly coarser grind can help reduce over-extraction.
• Reason: A coarser grind allows for faster water flow, decreasing the contact time and minimizing bitter flavors.

2. Brew Temperature Adjustment

• Action: Lower brewing temperature to around 90-92°C (194-198°F).
• Reason: A slightly lower temperature can help reduce bitterness and enhance the sweeter notes in your medium roast beans.

Additional Fixes

1. Dose Adjustment: Reduce your dose by 0.5-1 gram to ensure a lighter extraction, which can help balance flavors.
2. Brewing Time: Aim for a shorter extraction time, around 25-30 seconds, to avoid over-extraction.

By implementing these adjustments, you can enhance the flavor profile of your espresso and reduce bitterness.

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Built by The Tool Collective team. As you may know, we are a group of diverse multi-hobby individuals with loads of unique interests. Coffee/Espresso, quite literally, keeps us all going everyday and allows us to make these tools and produce fast, efficient, quality, content for our users. With age, our overall tastes for coffee have changed significantly and we all truly appreciate it for it's variations and palatable beauty. We truly LOVE coffee, and we want to bring a huge batch of highly useful and helpful tools for those that share this enthusiasm for this delicious and impactful beverage. You'll find product decision engines, and highly intelligent advisory tools to help level up your brewing skill. Enjoy!

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