A detachable coffee bean container for storing, holding and supplying coffee beans, said container comprising - a housing having at least one outer wall defining an inner volume capable of storing and holding coffee beans, said housing having at least one bottom side opening defining a coffee bean outlet capable of supplying coffee beans stored and held within the inner volume to the outside of the housing; - a closure exterior to said bottom side opening of said housing, being in the shape of a flat circular disk closure having a sectoral opening for allowing coffee beans to pass and capable of closing said bottom side opening against, or transiently opening it for, a passage of coffee beans to the outside of the housing, by a mechanism of rotating the closure automatically or by hand; - a passageway capable of guiding coffee beans released from the housing through the closure to the outside of the housing; - an adapter capable of matching the passageway of the coffee bean container to a coffee bean inlet of a conventional coffee brewing apparatus for supplying a predeterminable amount of coffee beans to said apparatus; wherein - said closure is capable of being opened simultaneously with the step of connecting to, and of being closed simultaneously with the step of disconnecting from, the coffee brewing apparatus' coffee bean inlet, after the adapter's matching step, by a circular movement in the plane of the adapter's contacting parts and of the coffee brewing machine's coffee bean inlet; wherein a coffee bean container closure's at least one recess is adapted to come into engagement with a coffee bean inlet's at least one protrusion; - said closure is capable of supplying coffee beans from the coffee bean container to a connected coffee brewing apparatus' coffee bean inlet upon opening an aligned route between the coffee bean container and the coffee brewing apparatus' coffee bean inlet by the coffee brewing apparatus' action automatically or by hand; and - said closure is capable of being actuated and controlled for closing or opening said bottom side opening of said housing, automatically or by hand, from the outside of the housing by one mechanism selected from the group consisting of rotating the closure, sliding the closure, buckling the closure, lifting the closure, lowering the closure and combinations thereof. - a housing having at least one outer wall defining an inner volume capable of storing and holding coffee beans, said housing having at least one bottom side opening defining a coffee bean outlet capable of supplying coffee beans stored and held within the inner volume to the outside of the housing; - a closure exterior to said bottom side opening of said housing, being in the shape of a flat circular disk closure having a sectoral opening for allowing coffee beans to pass and capable of closing said bottom side opening against, or transiently opening it for, a passage of coffee beans to the outside of the housing, by a mechanism of rotating the closure automatically or by hand; - a passageway capable of guiding coffee beans released from the housing through the closure to the outside of the housing; - an adapter capable of matching the passageway of the coffee bean container to a coffee bean inlet of a conventional coffee brewing apparatus for supplying a predeterminable amount of coffee beans to said apparatus; wherein - said closure is capable of being opened simultaneously with the step of connecting to, and of being closed simultaneously with the step of disconnecting from, the coffee brewing apparatus' coffee bean inlet, after the adapter's matching step, by a circular movement in the plane of the adapter's contacting parts and of the coffee brewing machine's coffee bean inlet; wherein a coffee bean container closure's at least one recess is adapted to come into engagement with a coffee bean inlet's at least one protrusion; - said closure is capable of supplying coffee beans from the coffee bean container to a connected coffee brewing apparatus' coffee bean inlet upon opening an aligned route between the coffee bean container and the coffee brewing apparatus' coffee bean inlet by the coffee brewing apparatus' action automatically or by hand; and - said closure is capable of being actuated and controlled for closing or opening said bottom side opening of said housing, automatically or by hand, from the outside of the housing by one mechanism selected from the group consisting of rotating the closure, sliding the closure, buckling the closure, lifting the closure, lowering the closure and combinations thereof.