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Pro tip: just found out my 'fresh roasted' bag from the grocery store was 6 months old
So I was at the Whole Foods on Lamar in Austin last week and grabbed a bag of beans off the shelf, you know the ones in those fancy looking bags with the roast date stamped on them. I flipped it over and the date said it was roasted in March. It was September. Six months sitting on a shelf. I always assumed if a store bothered to print a roast date, the stuff had to be at least somewhat recent, but apparently not at all. Back when I started getting into coffee like 8 years ago, I was just buying whatever was on sale and never even looked at dates. Now I feel dumb for all those years of wondering why my french press always tasted flat and kind of papery. I checked three other bags on that same shelf and every single one was at least 4 months old. Does anyone here actually trust grocery store beans anymore, or is it all online orders and local roasters for you?
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the_ryan1d ago
Six months is rough but honestly most people wouldn't even taste the difference in a latte drowned in milk and syrup. Sounds like this is more about your palate getting pickier than the beans being a scam.
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