wordshaper, Today's #ProTip -- if you keep Emergency Coffee in the freezer, you should rotate it out occasionally. Beans keep for quite a while if your freezer is cold but there are still limits.
This public service announcement brought to you by my looming vacation, and the bag of beans I had to resort to with a harvest date of 2013 on them. (I don't know how good they are, I've been a bit nervous to actually try the pot I brewed...)