There has developed a new craze in Britain in recent years. You can see it wherever you go; people walking or even riding bicycles, carrying a cardboard carton of the stuff. Yes, you guessed it, it's the coffee craze. The coffee experience has taken over from the can of cola and the coffee vocabulary litters our speach.

Many of us drink coffee on a daily basis but probably never wonder where it originated or are too busy rushing to get ready for work to spare much thought for how others drink theirs.

Considering the cost of coffee granules these days, you can't bring them home from the supermaket and just transfer them from the packet to a jar and leave them on the kitchen worktop. With gourmet coffee granules attracting the sort of money that they do, it is all important that you learn to store them the correct way, but what is the right way to store coffee?