The 5 lb Bag: Coffee Math for Churches, Small Groups, and Offices

If you brew for more than two mugs, the 12 oz bag is a snack. The 5 lb bag is the grocery run.

This is for the church kitchen, the small-group host, the office pot, and the household tired of ordering coffee like it’s a novelty. Same Holy Grounds Coffees coffee. Bigger bag. Less cardboard.

Bags ship from California. The useful question is not “where do we park.” It’s “which size so Sunday does not run out.” Most US orders arrive in about 5 to 10 business days. Plan like you plan communion cups, not like a drive-through.

The honest math

  • 12 oz bag: $22.99
  • 5 lb bag: $89.99

Five pounds is 80 ounces — 6⅔ of the 12 oz bags. Buy that weight as 12 oz bags and you’re near $153. Buy it as one 5 lb bag and you’re at $89.99.

Per ounce: about $1.92 vs $1.12. You’re not hunting a coupon. You’re stopping the small-bag tax.

A common drip yardstick is about 48 cups per pound. That’s around three dozen cups from 12 oz, and around 240 cups from 5 lb. If that sounds like a lot, you have not stood in a church kitchen at 8:40 a.m.

What to put in the cart

Pick a house coffee people will actually drink, then size it up.

  • House Blend — medium Central/South American house coffee. The 5 lb bag for a counter that does not want a tasting script.
  • African Kahawa Blend — medium-dark, African-grown, toffee / chocolate / cherry. Packs 12 oz through 5 lb.
  • Breakfast Blend or Cowboy Blend — easy house pots. Breakfast if you want a lighter morning urn; Cowboy if you want cocoa/caramel “strong.”

Pumpkin Spice on a fellowship table is a treat (and we keep it year round). For a weekly urn, start with a house blend or Kahawa so the third carafe still tastes like coffee.

Coffee is roasted and shipped from California by our roasting partner. Holy Grounds Coffees is the name on the shop.

Order it like a kitchen

  1. Count the pots, not the people. 5 lb is the default if you brew for a room.
  2. Select 5 lb on the product page.
  3. Match the grind. Kahawa: Espresso / Standard / Whole Bean only.
  4. Order 5–10 business days before you need it.
  5. Airtight, out of the sun. When you’re down a third, order the next bag.

One light note, because this audience usually wants it said: 40% of every bag — including the 5 lb — supports humanitarian efforts and missions in Africa. This post is still about bag size. The pledge rides along.

Shop 5 lb House Blend: holygroundscoffees.com/products/house-blend (select 5 lb)
Kahawa 5 lb: African Kahawa Blend
All coffee: holygroundscoffees.com/collections/coffee

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