Storing Coffee Beans

How should I store my coffee beans?  What’s the best place to keep coffee beans ? What’s the best storage method for coffee beans? How long before my coffee beans stale? Should you freeze it or just refrigerate it? Store it in jars, paper, plastic bags or fancy valve bags?  Does it really matter if it’s whole bean or ground? I mean, come on. How much time do I have before my World’s Best Coffee goes stale…Really? These are questions that concern most specialty-coffee buyers.  The issue of storage has been greatly...