If you enjoy an espresso drink at home and took the plunge and purchased a pricey quality espresso machine such as the Gaggia Platinum Vision so you can have a latte or cappuccino anytime you would like the next challenge is how to keep your fresh beans fresh.

The whole purpose for having a quality machine at home is freshness. You pull each espresso shot on demand with just the right amount of ground beans hoping for an excellent beverage.

Green coffee beans will keep their flavor for years but unfortunately once the beans are roasted the coffee begins to lose flavor as soon as a week after roasting. Once the coffee is ground it will begin losing flavor in an hour and worse yet after it is brewed it loses flavor within minutes.

You might be wondering at this point how to make sure the beans stay fresh? Well right or wrong here is what I do. First I only fill the bean hopper of my platinum vision espresso machine with enough beans to last me a couple of days at a time. I place any extra coffee beans into a container which needs to be airtight and freeze them. Many people have problems with this method but it has worked for me. Only keep a resonable quantity of beans in there at any given time. You don’t use the refrigerator for storing because of the moisture and smells that the beans will take on, the freezer works best.

Once I need to thaw the beans I will store a small amount of beans, enough for around 5 days tops in an airtight container and store that in a cool dry place.

Storing my beans in this way lets me have an adequate amount of fresh beans to use with my Gaggia Platinum Vision espresso machine.