If you're planning for SHTF and you're hoarding unroasted beans, you aren't planning for SHTF very well.

First, one year shelf life is not spectacular. Anything in a SHTF stash should last a minimum of three years.

Second, if you must have coffee in your survival stash, use instant. No, it's not spectacular, but literally everything else is a stupider idea, because instant coffee is not only about the densest and most "efficient" size (one teaspoon of instant makes one cup of coffee... you aren't going to get that efficiency with beans), and it also requires absolutely nothing else. No grinder. No oven. No brewer. Because you may not have those things, and if you're missing even one of those, your beans are worthless. Instant also lasts for like a decade in an airtight container.

If you're planning for SHTF and you're hoarding unroasted beans, you aren't planning for SHTF very well.

First, one year shelf life is not spectacular. Anything in a SHTF stash should last a minimum of three years.

Second, if you must have coffee in your survival stash, use instant. No, it's not spectacular, but literally everything else is a stupider idea, because instant coffee is not only about the densest and most "efficient" size (one teaspoon of instant makes one cup of coffee... you aren't going to get that efficiency with beans), and it also requires absolutely nothing else. No grinder. No oven. No brewer. Because you may not have those things, and if you're missing even one of those, your beans are worthless.

One year shelf life is laughably terrible for "SHTF". Everything should last a minimum of three years.

Second, if SHTF, you're seriously wasting enormous amounts of space on unroasted beans? Coffee is a luxury. If you're looking at it as a utilitarian stimulant, either get a bottle of NoDoz, or settle for instant.

If SHTF, you want instant coffee. Yes, it's not great, but not only is it way more efficient (seriously, the same volume of beans you'd use to make one cup of coffee you can store two dozens cups of instant), but it's vastly more useful. You aren't going to be roasting fucking beans if SHTF. And you're going to, what, drag along a grinder? And a french press or a brewer? Instant coffee you need nothing more than a cup of hot water.

What terrible advice.

Dude...

Okay, first, one year shelf life is laughably terrible for "SHTF". Everything should last a minimum of three years.

Second, if SHTF, you're seriously wasting enormous amounts of space on unroasted beans? Coffee is a luxury. If you're looking at it as a utilitarian stimulant, either get a bottle of NoDoz, or settle for instant.

If SHTF, you want instant coffee. Yes, it's not great, but not only is it way more efficient (seriously, the same volume of beans you'd use to make one cup of coffee you can store two dozens cups of instant), but it's vastly more useful. You aren't going to be roasting fucking beans if SHTF. And you're going to, what, drag along a grinder? And a french press or a brewer? Instant coffee you need nothing more than a cup of hot water.

What terrible advice.

Dude...

Okay, first, one year shelf life is laughably terrible for "SHTF".

Second, if SHTF, you're seriously wasting enormous amounts of space on unroasted beans? Coffee is a luxury. If you're looking at it as a utilitarian stimulant, either get a bottle of NoDoz, or settle for instant.

If SHTF, you want instant coffee. Yes, it's not great, but not only is it way more efficient (seriously, the same volume of beans you'd use to make one cup of coffee you can store two dozens cups of instant), but it's vastly more useful. You aren't going to be roasting fucking beans if SHTF. And you're going to, what, drag along a grinder? And a french press or a brewer? Instant coffee you need nothing more than a cup of hot water.

What terrible advice.

Okay... 1 year shelf life is like the exact opposite of great for SHTF, especially something that needs such significant prep like unroasted beans.

I have coffee in my SHTF stash and it's literally long-life instant coffee because:

A) Space is at a premium and coffee is largely a luxury,

B) The primary use will be as a stimulant, and having something you can mix on the spot with nothing more than hot water in a cup is probably way better suited for SHTF than... what? Are you dragging around a grinder and a drip-brewer?