Posted: 9/1/2009 12:23:16 PM EDT
| how long is coffee good for if sealed in mylar bags? thinking about adding a dozen or so tins to my preps. |
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cans or foil pack works for me, mud is better than nothing.
green beans will last for a very long time if you pack them like the rest of your stuff, roasting them to perfection is another matter. We tried to roast some in our hot air popper, with less than satisfactory results (weak and bland) it would be a real chore to roast them on a wood fire, I recomend cans. |
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In order of longevity:
green properly packed beans green beans roasted whole beans ground beans )repeat for open containers( Realistically, I have decided that once dipping into stores is started, I will try to kick the caffeine habit. Just storing regular off the shelf metal cans of ground coffee and rotate them, also buying places where they have a decent turnover so the cans are not there for a year already. You can get hand grinders for whole bean, but really good coffee is a luxury that I don't feel like I need to put a lot of effort into. So no roasting/green beans, whole beans, or whatever after SHTF. I DO like to roast my own beans, there is a little electric thing specialized for that purpose that doesn't take much learning (but use it OUTSIDE roasting beans makes a lot of stinky smoke). Green beans can be ordered on the Internet (of course.) |
| Buy the beans green it not hard to roast them at all just takes time. You can buy the green beans canned here!! Roasting beans is like anything you have to look up how to do it and all depending on the taste that's how long you roast it for my grandmother still makes it this way she taught me how to do it in hope of me getting to like coffee but I think the stuff tastes like shit. Give me tea any day. |
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10 year old ground coffee in the can is still drinkable.
Purchased Maxwell House coffee 11-25-98 Opened can and brewed 4-22-09 I have no problems with buying coffee in cans and putting it away for later. It may not be gourmet quality after years of storage. John |
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I just kind of like coffee for the caffeine and to mess with in the morning, it tends to cause me to get out of bed instead of wearing out the snooze button on my alarm clock.
I go with a whole lot of the cheap coffee that still comes sealed in metal cans. While I have some plastic cans around I don't think they will store for very long so I buy those when cheap and use them up. My basic opinion is if things get bad enough I use up 20 or 50 or however many cans of coffee I have stored then I am going to kick the coffee habit. And after kicking the beer habit coffee will be easy. But lets not go towards alcohol since I was reading up on turning honey into mead or something or other the other week and have been wondering about buying a few gallons of honey to play with. 
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| For long term storage, I would go with instant coffee. I have a jar in my cabin that has been there since we built it in 1996. If we run out of ground stuff we use it. Not the best after all these years but it passes for coffee iwhen we are too lazy to run into town. |
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Remember, if you store canned goods, you can donate them to charity before the marked expiration date, and take a tax deduction.
For somebody near you, TODAY is SHTF. They will be very happy to get your "old" canned coffee at the food bank. I believe two years is the standard "shelf life" for canned coffee. One large can should be enough to get you through withdrawal, and weaned from coffee in an apocalyptic SHTF scenario. In the meantime, you are free to drink "better" coffee as your budget and desires dictate. Save your receipts. |
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If I run out of coffee in the apocolypse, God help anyone that screws with me  I started adding coffee to my storage after we forgot to pack it on a camping trip... I was quite unpleasant, to say the least. coffee got added to the food stores right after we got back. don't want to be without that, especially under an extra stressful situation. 
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Tins? If its folgers, it will taste the same 40yrs from now.... 
If this could only be true.  I grew up with Folgers, Maxwell House and Hill Bros.  We hate the over roasted, burnt thick shit that is passed for coffee at Starbucks, restaurants, and most gas stations, now. We lay in what is on sale in the three brands noted and a couple jars of instant, too. We have an easy year supply of cans. Plus two jars of instant.
Of course, I would never bash anyone who likes their coffee, beer, or go-to rifle a certain way. 
Plus, I'm using the emoticons profusely so not to offend.   
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I despise instant coffee, but during the 1998 and 2008 ice storms I wasn't picky. Even bad coffee is akin to an offering from heaven in an emergency situation when you have nothing else. Freeze-dried Folgers helped to keep me alert on long nights while on generator watch.
To me, coffee is a vital emergency prep-I've since taken steps to ensure that the black gold stays flowing, no matter what. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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........................... Realistically, I have decided that once dipping into stores is started, I will try to kick the caffeine habit. ................................ I hope you aren't like my wife........... With caffeine- 
Without- 
I have cut back to less than a cup per day from taking it with an IV bag on a rolling stand. I had a bout of high BP and the doc suggested it. After the BP reverted to normal I decided to stay off the joe. I try to do all things in moderation and after trying to cut back I would slip back into my continual consumption mode, so I don't drink it at work. You might try going cold turkey to see how you will respond. I used to give coffee up for Lent, but I only got a small headache the first day, and after that it was no big deal, so now I give up haggis. I use the room it would take for storing coffee for other items. If the national coffee supply is interrupted I'm going outside to the dog kennel and lock myself in until she breaks her habit. |
| I got a few bulk packs of tasters choice in single serving packets for Laura. Its freeze dried or crystals or some form of instant coffee. Mostly for out on the boat or camping but its been used for power outages , flooding with power out and a few other times. While she doesnt use it day in and day out as she is a Dunkin Donuts addict she likes the tasters choice just fine and has never complained. |
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I keep the coffee in a tea bag in my BOB. About 10 tea bags worth. For long term storage I keep a few of the sealed cans (not the plastic type) but I'm seriously looking into the sealed green coffee beens from MREdepot.com
http://www.mredepot.com/servlet/the-366/Future-Essentials-Canned-Costa/Detail Roast as needed and will store for many years. |
| You can make coffee in a SHTF scenerio, you've got gold. People want things that make them confortable, at ease, remember what they had, and nothing like a cup of coffee in the morning for a lot of us. Sure, all can live without, but if there was some available, you could get pie for coffee (not saying it was good pie). |
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I got a few bulk packs of tasters choice in single serving packets for Laura. Its freeze dried or crystals or some form of instant coffee. Mostly for out on the boat or camping but its been used for power outages , flooding with power out and a few other times. While she doesnt use it day in and day out as she is a Dunkin Donuts addict she likes the tasters choice just fine and has never complained. Single servings is a good idea. The problem with buying in bulk is that once you open a large package you have to use it or it starts to go bad. More and smaller servings are better in some cases. Another idea is using liquid coffee concentrate. I've noticed a few commercial coffee makers use liquid concentrate coffee. No brewing, they just put a bag of the liquid into the machine and it mixes cup by cup as needed. Tastes like brewed coffee.You can buy and store it in bulk and only use what you need. You can also buy small bottles (6oz) that makes 5 gallons of coffee. That's like half a tablespoon per cup. |