Single Dose Coffee

Single Dosing Coffee is a widely adopted technique that baristas use to preserve coffee and save time when working in a cafe.
By dosing up individual tubes of coffee beans you are able to easily store coffee in a freezer and drastically increase your coffee offerings. 

This technique is perfect for cafes and coffee roasters but has also been popular with home baristas to save their favourite coffee beans to brew with later.

How To Single Dose Coffee

To single dose your coffee beans we recommend first brewing your coffee and creating a recipe, dialling in your coffee is important as it will let you know exactly how much coffee you need for each dose. Once you have your recipe sorted place an empty tube onto a set of scales and tare out the weight.
Add your coffee and fill it up till your coffee hits the desired weight. The single dose tubes that we sell have a capacity of around 20-22g depending on the coffee beans).

Pro tip:

If you plan on using a 15g dose and an extra gram or two so that you have a little bit extra to grind through your coffee grinder before grinding your coffee dose. This helps remove any left over coffee in your grinder that could effect the taste of your coffee.

Next date and label your coffee, the single dose centrifuge tubes we sell have a white label that allows you to write this information directly on the tube.

Information to include:

It's completly up to you on what information you include on each tube, but we've come up on a list of information that we think you should consider including.

• Coffee Roast Date
• Coffee Freeze Date
• Roaster Name
• Origin
• Varietal
• Brew Method / Recipe 
• Tasting Notes

Storing single doses in batches:

If you are storing lots of single doses writing out all this information on each individual tube can be time consuming, an alternative to this would be to dose up each coffee and store these in a plastic container or tub in a section of your freezer.
This way you just have to write out the information once and know that all the coffees in that section are the same coffee.

When do you freeze coffee?

You should freeze your coffee at peak freshness, unfortunately there isn't a universal answer for when this is because each coffee is different and this largely has to do with the coffee beans themselves as well as the roast of the coffee.
You really only have two options when it comes down to deciding when to freeze your coffee.

Option #1

Ask your roaster, in most cases no one has a better understanding of their coffee than the roaster themselves. Theres no harm in asking your coffee roaster when their coffee is at peak freshness.

Option #2

Try to gauge it yourself, by drinking coffee each day. Once your coffee starts to taste as good as you think it can be, it's time to freeze.
A great indicator for this is assessing the bloom, when your hot water first touches the coffee grounds you will see lots of bubbles forming and sometimes even a crust form when you pour your second pour.
By keeping an eye on how much your coffee blooms you will be able to gauge how fresh your coffee is.