Bought a bag of beans from a tiny roaster in New Mexico and it flipped my routine

I was driving through Santa Fe last spring and swung by this little shop off the plaza. The guy running it roasted that morning's batch in a drum he built himself. I paid $14 for half a pound which felt steep at the time. Got home and brewed it on my V60 the next morning and it tasted like nothing I'd ever made before. The flavor notes on the bag said 'honey and pear' and for the first time I actually tasted both. Turned out I had been buying supermarket beans that were probably months old. Now I only order from roasters who put the roast date on the bag. Anyone else have a moment like that where a single cup changed how you shop?

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felix_williams7112d ago

That roast date thing is a total game changer. Now I check every bag before buying and won't touch anything more than two weeks old.

wadem8912d ago

And that's the thing, once you start paying attention to roast dates you realize how much of the coffee you bought before was basically stale. It's like when I finally figured out I should be grinding my beans right before brewing instead of buying pre-ground. I had this whole setup with a blade grinder that just made dust and bitter coffee for like two years. Then my buddy let me borrow his decent burr grinder and I couldn't believe the difference. Now I'm that guy who brings his own hand grinder to work and the office Keurig cups just sit there gathering dust.