How many pounds of coffee do you consume per year?

[cannonfodder]

I happen to be on business travel this week. So as I sit here flipping through the channels in my hotel I come across a wine show on the history channel, which is followed by the coffee show. Now I have seen this one several times but I still watch it every time.

This time through something caught my eye. The current per capita consumption of coffee in the USA is 9 pounds a year. Then it hits me, 9 pounds? Good grief, I go through over 50 pounds a year, probably more like 60 if I stop to add it up.

So I thought that would make an interesting poll. So how many pounds of coffee bean do you consume per year?

[keno]

Cannonfodder,

You're what's known as an outlier! I'm sure most people in these forums consume well over the American average, HB members are certainly not a representative sample. But you're way outta my league.

Between my wife and I we consume about 3 pounds per month. So that's 36 pounds per year total or 18 pounds apiece. But that doesn't account for coffee consumed outside the home (add about another 18 pounds in that case). Now that I've recently started homeroasting I'm sure that number will go up. I read in today's paper that Brazil is forecast to have a really small crop next year and that's pushing up the price of coffee futures.

Cheers,
Ken

P.S. Lucky thing all the recent research seems to suggest that coffee is good for your health!

[HB]

I answered 40-60 pounds, but to be fair, that includes a lot of evaluation shots that are sipped and sinked. In a "normal" week with no experimentation, my consumption is around 3/4 pound. I was on vacation during One week with the La Marzocco GS3 and was finishing more than a pound a day.

[cannonfodder]

I average a pound a week with an occasional bout of insanity. When I got the Achille to review, I went through around 8 pounds in two weeks. While I did not drink every last drop, I did take at least a sip of each shot. In one month, I have worn a good part of the chrome out of the PF bottom.

I get my greens (I home roast a lot) in ten pound bags and go through several origins per year, plus what I get from the HB sponsors. My Mazzer is probably due for new burrs after two years.

[another_jim]

I'm at roughly 1.5 pounds per week; so 75 pounds per year. Not sure why this is at the bleeding end of question, it seems reasonably middle of the road to me.

[iginfect]

I'd guestimate 1#/week, given that I roast almost twice a week 11 oz.

The 9# per capita seems believable as there are many non coffee drinkers among adults and then there are kids. The brown water that passes for coffee in most homes/restaurants/gas stations/convenience stores makes this even more credible.

Marvin

[mikep]

I buy about 1lb/wk for espresso, which covers my wife and me, and then I get between 30-40 lb/yr for afternoon coffee shared with a couple of officemates

[danblev]

As time passes, my total keeps on going up.
Currently I roast 2# about every 4 days on average but I pass some to others. Half of our home use is over the weekend and friends & family drink over half.
An estimate for our home consumption is about 1.5#/week (up from about 1#/week 6 months ago) so that adds up to about 75#/year.
Now that doesn't add up ha... the 2# is green.

Danny

[RegulatorJohnson]

im at about 2 lbs. per week.

i have a roaster very very close i ride my bike there, if its not snowing. if the wind blows the right direction i can smell it roasting. i asked them the schedule and now i get coffee still warm, is that fresh enough? they have an awesome espresso blend so i tend to drink a lot of coffee since i have the easy access. ill buy ahead about 3-4 days to let it rest.

jon

[fredfal]

After voting, I feel like a lightweight with a mere 30-40 pounds per year. I'm gonna have to get to work.

[bill]

My vote went for the 'village' category. I buy about a pound of beans a week for home use plus coffee at work for my wife and I. That figures out to about 75 lbs per year.

[Teme]

We are a two person household and we go through 500 grams (a bit over a lb) a week on average. I say on average as we both spend about 50 days a year "on the road" travelling on business. Some weeks we may go through a kilo (more than two lb).

We were both born and currently live in one of the Nordic countries who are notorious (?) in their world leading coffee consumption averaging at around 25 lb per year per person. Therefore my response of 40-60 lb for the household puts us firmly in the ballpark of the average for the region

Br,
Teme

[Ron_L]

We go through a pound a week on average, too, so I voted 40-60.

[OkcEspresso]

I am burning (not literally) through a lot of coffee while learning how to roast. Still about 50% is being given away.

[cannonfodder]

Interesting results but not surprising. After all, anyone that invests so much money in equipment and so much time in learning the craft is bound to consume more coffee than your average pre ground supermarket twenty dollar drip machine coffee drinker.

[Bertie Doe]

3 doubles pd + 4 doubles pd at w/ends, that's 11.5oz per week = 37lbs per annum. About 10 mins after my espresso, when the afterglow has subsided, I look at the residue on the walls of the cup and hurridly down a chaser (3oz cup of cold clear water). Look on water as medicine - and hold your nose.

[dankbean]

1/8 lb every morning for a french press.
5 days a week
52 x 5 x 0.125 = 32.5? (i'm doing this in my head)

compensate for waste......I have used around 30 lbs this year for french press.

For espresso? I have no earthly idea. Here's to working for a roaster!!! *clinky*

[Worldman]

For wifey & me it is 1 pound every 5 or 6 days...for espresso, with ~60% of that going to me. In addition, she uses ~1/4# of drip coffee per week.

Len

[woodchuck]

We're a two person family not counting the three goldens but they don't impact the coffee consumption too much. We go through about one pound of espresso a week between the two of us. I'll go through another half a pound of french press if I'm out consulting somewhere. So 70 or so pounds a year for the two of us. That's not counting the Friday coffee geek meetings. Hate to think how much espresso I drink there:-)

Ian

[Alchemist]

Cannonfodder - I am right there with you as an outlier.

I easily do over 60# a year, by myself. 42 g every morning, and another 20-40 g for espresso most mornings. And that does not count "the crazy times". And of course, those are roasted weights - my green weights of course would be a bit higher.

That would explain the why I felt I needed to build my 1 lb roaster.

But shoosh - a little over 1 lb a week - that doesn't sound that crazy at all.