5 Lb Coffee Bags
Five-pound coffee bags with valves for wholesale roast.
Wholesale and cafe accounts buy coffee in bulk, so the 5 lb bag is the workhorse. The valve vents CO2; the barrier film holds freshness at volume.
Box-bottom bags stack; stand-up bags display.
- Holds 5 lb of whole bean or ground
- One-way degassing valve
- High-barrier film
- Box-bottom or stand-up, printed
“Low minimums were the whole reason we tried them. 250 pouches to test a flavor, then 5,000 when it took off — same bag, same print, no drama.”
“The valve bags keep our roast fresh and the print quality is better than bags we paid twice as much for. Reorders take one email.”
The bag between the roaster and the cafe
Retail bags sell coffee to people; 5 lb bags move it to accounts. A cafe running your beans goes through a bag in days, opening and reclosing it at every shift change. That duty cycle is what the format is built around: a heavy barrier film that shrugs off handling, a wide press-to-close zipper that survives hundreds of cycles, and a one-way valve that vents roast CO2 without letting oxygen back in.
Skip the valve on a 5 lb bag and freshly roasted beans will balloon it on the shelf within a day; it is not an optional extra at this size.
Box-bottom or stand-up
Box-bottom (flat-bottom) bags are the wholesale default: they cube out efficiently, stack square on a rack, and stand rigid when half empty. Stand-up gusseted bags cost slightly less and suit roasters whose wholesale bags also appear front-of-house. Both print full-face; most roasters run a simplified version of their retail artwork with a bold roast label block, since baristas read the bag at arm's length in a dim back bar.
A wide fill opening matters more than it seems. Ask your production team how they fill; we match the top opening to scoop, funnel or auger filling so the bag does not fight the workflow.
Fit within the wider lineup
Most roasters run this bag alongside a retail size; the 12 oz coffee bag is the standard companion, and the full options list, valves, films, closures, lives on the custom coffee bags page. Shared artwork across sizes keeps plate costs down and the brand consistent from cafe shelf to back bar.
Does the 5 lb bag need nitrogen flushing?
If you flush retail bags, flush these too; the valve handles outgassing either way. The barrier film is rated for both workflows.
