You'll be fine. If you make coffee with them and it tastes bad, then just pitch them. Or dump a shit ton of sugar and milk into it like those fairies at Starbucks.
Cream. Milk is for tea.
They’ll be as bad as they were a month after roast8ng. Once they die, they don’t degrade much.
Amd to that, drink coffe within a m9 th to 6 weeks from roasting date.
Wait, whole bean or ground? If ground, it’s dead 3 hours after grinding.
Based on one experience. I had coffee from 2 year expired beans once. Tasted fine to me. I got them as a Christmas gift and never opened them. Found them in the back of the cupboard one day and said fuck it.
yah 2 years is the go to amount food charities use for how expired something can be, the only exceptions are baby food and dog food which have much stricter dating
I'd best worst case scenario, the coffee tastes nasty. give them a grind and see.
Vacuum sealing them helps maintain freshness, but they still sat a while before being packed.
No.
Go for it. What's the worst that can happen? When you pour boiling water over the beans, any bad bacteria on them is done for and can't hurt you.
I dumpster dive, back in Jan. 2017 I found a box (3kgs) of whole bean coffee, drank the last of that batch Nov. 2021, tasted fine
All good
yes you're fine, I'd use 'em
They will be stale, but they are unlikely to be spoiled/rancid.
Edit: if they are rancid, you will know as soon as you smell them. They will smell like bad french fryer oil.
I tried some and it didn't taste like it should. Wasn't terrible though, just not good. I froze the unopened bags to save for a time when I run out of fresh coffee. I tried them in drip and that is when it didn't taste right. I also made espresso which was not bad.
It's oxygen that ruins roasted coffee over time, so vacuum sealing should preserve it for a lot longer.
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