Store in a dark place at room temperature. Long exposure to warm temperatures, and sunlight will spoil beef tallow. If stored in a dark place at room temperature like a cabinet in your kitchen away from the stove or oven it will not spoil for a year. If stored in the refrigerator it will not spoil for 2 years.
Beef tallow will have a consistency of coconut oil or butter at room temperature and hardens if stored in a refrigerator.
Beef tallow can be used as a replacement for any cooking oil such as vegetable oils, seed oils, coconut oil, butter, etc