I get coffee gifted to me somewhat regularly, plus the beans I buy myself. These are just the specialty bags I’ve got going on right now, I have another probably 4-5 bags of commodity coffee as well. I also have another bag of the DeMello (yellow bag with a Tiger on it) but forgot to add it in the picture.

For those who have several bags at once, how do you decide what to brew at any given time? I try to rotate between them, prioritizing the best beans to use them up before they stale, but I don’t have a very good system for it. The two bags of Pilot (Ana Sora and Black Moon) are definitely my nicest and also my freshest, and they’re getting the most attention right now. They’re the ones I’m most worried about going stale. But I have a bunch of other bags too as you can see, and I don’t know how to properly rotate between them. On my days off it’s easier because I might make 4 espressos in one day, but when I’m working it’s usually espresso to wake up and pour over for work, then maybe espresso when I get home but not usually since it’s normally too late. I’m curious if anyone here has a better system for going through lots of bags.

My wife does also drink coffee but usually only one coffee a day, and it’s usually commodity coffee unless she’s not working. Her go-to has been Lavazza Qualità Oro.

I know some people are probably gonna freak out that my coffee is all going to go stale before I can drink it all, and I should only have one bag open at a time and whatever else, but having many options is part of the fun for me. I really enjoy opening the coffee cupboard in the mornings and having a bunch of options, I’m just not very good at then making the decision for which to drink. Coffee is fun, it’s basically my only hobby these days, and tasting different coffees is the most fun part of that. But then when I get to having 7-10 bags open I don’t really know how to drink it all. I should probably just only buy when I’m running low, but that’s not fun. So yeah, probably my own fault, oh well.

It’s like, I go out to a coffee shop, see a bag I might like and impulse buy it, then add it to the collection at home and get decision fatigue. Or sometimes, like in the case of the three bags at the back, I get gifted a tasting set and that’s now three more bags to decide between. My wife also loves trying new coffee so she’ll sometimes see a neat bag or maybe the grocery store has specialty coffee on sale, and sure it’s a bit stale but it might be only $12-15 compared to $22-25 elsewhere so she picks it up and then the collection grows even more. That’s where the DeMello came from, it was from $22 down to $12 and only 5 weeks off roast so she picked it up. But she got two bags and now that’s even more coffee to drink before it stales.

For those with large collections going on, I’d love to see what bags you have going on too. Drop a picture in the comments, I’d love to see.