Coffee Enthusiast, Meet Your Coffee Bag
Using coffee while its fresh is important to brewing great coffee. Fortunately, the bag it came in is helping you out. After it's roasted, the coffee is put in one of these bags and sealed. The round thing above the label is a valve which allows the gases to escape without blowing the bag up like a balloon. Once out, there's no getting back in. The valve bars access to the outside air and moisture, helping prolong the coffee's freshness.
Want to know when your coffee was roasted? Look on top of the bag for the roast date sticker. Keep track of how old the coffee is getting as you use it. If you find a certain point where you can taste the loss of freshness, make a note of the age. Try to adjust when and how much coffee you buy to use it within that age range.
Once it's been opened, your bag comes with its own resealable tape to help keep the coffee in and the other stuff out. Roll up the top and tape it down tight, but don't forget to supplement with an air tight container (unfortunately, not included).
Once it's been opened, your bag comes with its own resealable tape to help keep the coffee in and the other stuff out. Roll up the top and tape it down tight, but don't forget to supplement with an air tight container (unfortunately, not included).
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cayuga Feb 3, 2009 – 9:15 AM
When finished with the coffee bags, I use scissors to slice them up into little pieces, and then I use the pieces as packing material for shipping items in the mail. What is the material in a Gimme! Coffee bag and is it recyclable?
Jeff Feb 3, 2009 – 11:14 AM
If I keep pushing the "button" and smelling the coffee through the bag, am I wasting the flavor? After a few long inhales, the aroma decreases, until I return later and it has built up again. But by indulging in the aroma repeatedly, am I somehow spending the flavor of the beans?
Jeremy Feb 3, 2009 – 5:25 PM
The roasted beans will continue releasing gases which will escape the valve anyway. Smelling it frequently doesn't spend the flavor, but waiting that long to cut it open and brew it does! ; )
Jackie Feb 3, 2009 – 7:52 PM
Last time we got a bag of Gimme in the mail, we were thrilled to see that the roast date sticker said it had been roasted just the day before it arrived at our house. Wow!