Perhaps counterintuitively, you don't want your coffee beans to be too fresh from the roaster.You should wait to start enjoying them at least a week or so after the roast date, so that they'll ...

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Renee Colon lifts coffee beans from the cooling tray of a roasting machine at Fuego Coffee Roasters' roasting facility in Rochester, N.Y., Friday, March 21, 2025. Credit: AP/Max Conway.

I’m here to be of help—or perhaps, be an annoyance—in browning a batch of Brazilian Cerrado coffee beans with the shop’s coffee-roaster-in-chief, Nigel Gardener.