STORING HULA DADDY KONA COFFEE

Hula Daddy Kona Coffee beans are grown on the Hula Daddy Plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii. Hawaiian grown Hula Daddy Coffee is one of the world’s finest coffees. However, to keep tasting the subtle flavors of our coffee you need to store the coffee to keep it as fresh as possible

Hula Daddy Kona Coffee beans are sold in a flavor seal bag that will keep the coffee fresh for weeks However, once the bags are opened the beans are exposed to air, strong odors and moisture and begin to lose the subtle flavors that make Hawaiian grown Hula Daddy Kona Coffee so unique. The natural enemies of fresh roasted coffee are oxygen, strong odors, moisture, heat and light. If you want to keep Hula Daddy Kona Coffee as fresh as possible, keep the beans away from air, strong odors, water, heat and light.

In the supermarket they sell “gourmet” beans in open plastic bins. There is no possible way those beans could be fresh and flavorful. They are completely exposed to air and to food odors in the supermarket. Buying coffee beans that have not been properly stored is a waste of money.

Here are our suggestions for keeping your Hula Daddy Kona Coffee fresh.

• Buy Small Bags of Coffee
  Buy half pound or one pound flavor sealed bags of coffee. Never buy two pound or five pound bags even if you are saving money. There is no point in saving money to coffee that is going to go stale. Only buy as much coffee as you will use in the next 60 days. Flavor seal bags are an amazing way to store fresh roasted coffee. Supermarkets use them to store coffee for months. Some of the coffee you buy in supermarket cans and bags was growing on a coffee tree two and three years ago. If you buy in flavor seal bags every 60 days or less you are sure of getting fresh roasted flavor.
  
  
• Grind the Beans Just Before You Use Them
  When you grind coffee you expose more of the surface of the coffee. Ground coffee will go stale when exposed in hours while beans can stay mostly fresh for days. So buy whole bean coffee and grind it just before you brew it
  
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• Store Hula Daddy Coffee away from Strong Odors
  Coffee beans are porous and will absorb strong odors quickly including onion, garlic, perfume, air freshener, and etc. Don’t open your Hula Daddy coffee around and don’t store it near strong odors.

•  Keep Hula Daddy Coffee Dry and Cool
     Don’t store coffee near the sink or dishwasher. Coffee beans will pick up water quickly and it will degrade the subtle flavors of Kona Coffee beans.  Also keep coffee beans away from hot places, such as heaters, stoves, windows etc. It doesn’t have to be cold. If you are comfortable the coffee is comfortable.
  
  
• Keep Coffee Away From Strong Light
  OK. Here is where the coffee pundits go wild. There are many “experts” that say “Do not freeze coffee.”  There are just as many that do. The objections to freezing coffee are that it changes the structure of the bean, it promotes moisture, and it may change the flavor of the coffee. Many of the objections to freezing coffee can be overcome. For example, the coffee will pick up odors from the freezer. OK, but if the coffee is in a freezer bag that isn’t going to happen.
  
  The proponents of freezing coffee beans claim that it stops oxidation, and keeps the beans fresh.  Fortunately, there is only one expert that counts and that is you.  My suggestion is freeze some of your recently opened Hula Daddy Kona Coffee beans in a freezer bag. Store the rest of the beans in your own preferred method. After a few days brew two cups of coffee one from the freezer and one from your other storage method. Taste the coffee hot, the warm and see if you can see a difference.
  
  Whatever, you decide, you will be right. At Hula Daddy we can tell a significant difference between freezer stored coffee beans and other storage methods. We freeze all of out opened bags of beans.
  
  
• Hula Daddy Bag Clip
  We have a Hula Daddy Kona Coffee Bag Clip to seal the bags after you open them. They work just like a chip clip. They aren’t as good a freezing coffee but they are better than trying to roll the bag closed. The next time you order Hula Daddy Kona Coffee beans ask us to send you a free bag clip.

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