Cheat Sheet: Coffee bag size by origin

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Last week we were working through some drum capacity calculations and it was interesting to see the common full coffee bag sizes laid out by origin. Take a look. 

 

 Bag size in kilograms Bag size in pounds Origin
45.45 kilograms 100 pounds Hawaii
Puerto Rico
50-60  kilograms 110-132 pounds India
60  kilograms 132 pounds Brazil
Ethiopia
Indonesia
Kenya
Vietnam
69 kilograms 151.8 pounds Guatemala
Mexico
Peru
70 kilograms 154 pounds Colombia

 

There is, of course, outliers to these numbers above and half-bag sizes, too - like our 35 kilogram half bags available from Colombia producer, Forest Coffee. But its still interesting and if someone has time, they should take a closer look at that 69 kilogram size and let us know how that came to be. 

Our roaster lineup at Mill City Roasters is based on a 60 kilogram bag size to catch that broad middle of the road bag size that is more common across origins. When you invert a 60 kilogram bag across our line-up, this is where the numbers fall.

Roaster Drum Capacity Fraction of 60 kilogram bag
 500 gram, MCR500 1/120
1 kilogram, MCR-1 1/60
2 kilogram, MCR-2D

1/30

3 kilogram, MCR-3/3D 1/20
6 kilogram, MCR-6 1/10
10 kilogram, MCR-10 1/6
15 kilogram, MCR-15 1/4
20 kilogram, MCR-20 1/3
30 kilogram, MCR-30 1/2
60 kilogram, MC-60 1

 

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