"In a move that challenges both quality control and marketing norms in specialty coffee, Pennsylvania-based roaster Passenger Coffee is releasing a high-end coffee harvested 10 years ago. The company described this week's release of a Kenya Kiriani Peaberry from the 2016 harvest - frozen as green coffee at peak freshness - as "proof of concept" for its long-term green coffee freezing program."
""Green coffee preservation in the freezer has been integral to Passenger's sourcing program and strategic planning since day one, and it continues to inform inventory management and menu curation in significant ways," Passenger director of coffee Russ Durfee and green buyer Evan Howe jointly said in a statement to Daily Coffee News. "With the benefit of the freezer, we eliminate the risk of our green coffees beginning to show past-crop qualities before we've roasted through them.""
Passenger Coffee released a Kenya Kiriani Peaberry harvested in 2016 and frozen as green coffee at peak freshness, marking a ten-year milestone for frozen coffee preservation. The roaster began experimenting with freezing greens in 2014 and expanded the program to all coffees in 2017 with a Lancaster storage facility. Passenger currently roasts roughly 5,000–6,000 pounds per week, all sourced from frozen greens. Freezing preserves peak quality, prevents past-crop characteristics before roasting, and supports inventory management and menu curation. The program enables limited 'Archival' releases, stable 'Foundational' offerings, and larger purchasing commitments to producers.
Read at Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine
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