Blocked

How should I store this once it arrives, and should I keep it in the fridge or freezer?

ALS-COFFEE-1.2-STORAGE-001

This question matters to a buyer and CANNOT be answered from a public product page today. What would be required is stated in full.

Why this cannot be run

Blocked by G-06.

Assertion

storage_conditions is_stated true

Applicability

applies when
the product is roasted coffee sold to a consumer
signal
product_type or title indicates coffee

Accepted evidence

  • product_description — storage conditions with the parameters that matter — container type, a temperature or range, and explicit direction on refrigeration and freezing
  • product_faq — the same guidance in FAQ structured data attached to this product

Explicitly insufficient evidence

What does not count, and why. Published because the omission is where a check quietly becomes a claim.

  • "store in a cool, dry place"
    Generic boilerplate with no temperature that is silent on the refrigeration question buyers actually have, and arguably not a special condition at all.
  • "keep sealed" or "reseal after opening"
    Closure handling is not a storage condition, and the two are routinely conflated in copy.
  • advice to refrigerate for longer life
    It runs directly contrary to mainstream trade-association guidance, so presence of storage advice must not be scored as soundness of storage advice; presence and correctness are different tests.
  • a freezing recommendation with no airtight-container and small-portion caveats
    Those caveats are what make freezing survivable rather than harmful, so the recommendation without them is incomplete.
  • guidance living only in a blog post or brewing guide
    Where the pre-purchase distance-selling requirement applies the information must be available in connection with the offer, so location matters and a blog is not the offer.

Conflict rules

  • When the page recommends refrigeration and the trade body advises against it — then record that guidance is present and do not adjudicate whether it is sound; the standard reports evidence availability, not correctness

Discrimination

Authored expectation: no prediction, confidence low. The numeric band this standard used to carry is not published at this grammar version.

Storage guidance is common in some form but rarely carries a temperature or addresses refrigeration explicitly, so the band depends on how strictly the parameters are required. The vocabulary is small and stable, which makes this unusually tractable to match once a mechanism exists.

The numeric fail-rate band this reasoning was authored with is NOT carried at grammar 1.2 and is not reproduced here. Authored bands held 1 of 10 against this category's own sample and every miss was HIGH, so a direction derived from the band would inherit the error that condemned it (SCHEMA.md §9.3 step 3). The band survives in ALS-COFFEE v1.1 (standard_hash f8ec2780f60c38931913e5b6cd37506500c8462709209de7180ba6691d6137e7), which is byte-frozen and still served.

For a shopper

This is the freshness question with a real legal hook behind it in the EU, and the one where popular advice is most often wrong: the mainstream trade association strongly advises against refrigerating coffee, and the trade's own assessment protocol says to store it cool and dark but not refrigerated or frozen.

For a merchant

State storage conditions on the product page rather than in a blog — container type, a temperature range, and explicit direction on refrigeration and freezing with the caveats that make freezing safe.

Grounding

  • EU Regulation 1169/2011, Article 9(1)(g) and Article 14(1)(a) (legal_instrument)
    that special storage conditions are a mandatory particular and, unlike the durability date, are NOT carved out of the pre-purchase distance-selling requirement — making storage the strongest legally-grounded hook for a coffee product page in the whole freshness class
  • National Coffee Association, storage and shelf life guidance (trade_body)
    substantive guidance to keep coffee away from air, moisture, heat and light in an opaque airtight container at room temperature, with refrigeration strongly advised against, which is what makes the refrigeration direction the decisive parameter
  • Independent refuting pass, live search-intent retrieval (internal_measurement)
    that how to store coffee beans after opening, to keep them fresh, and whether to use the fridge are all live autocomplete completions, placing storage inside the verified shopper-driven core