6/10/15 12:09 PM

After as few as a couple of days of the same coffee or espresso, I'd swear that the flavor had gone, as if by staleness, yet if I wait several days and then brew the same batch again, voila, the flavor returns!

No joke here, even (to a lesser degree) with some of the very dark roasts (whose flavors are generally far more "volatile" to storage durations), I've brewed coffees many months later and the character seems intact, though not that I could tell by any pre-brewing sniff test.

So I'm thinking that a coffee's flavor/aroma perhaps lingers in the body, desensitizing the palate until at least several days have passed.

That's my trick to enjoying my ever-aging coffee inventory. I had a very light roast "breakfast blend" today from a years-old, albeit sealed "pod" pack that I emptied into a K-cup, and it was really, really good I have to say.