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Every Grumpy Mule coffee we track, priced per cup, and which bag is actually the cheap one.
Coffee is sold by the bag and drunk by the cup, and the two almost never rank in the same order. A Grumpy Mule bag that looks dear on the shelf can turn out to be the cheapest thing here once you divide it out, and the one that looks like a bargain often is not. So here is every Grumpy Mule coffee we track, across whole bean and ground, on one honest unit.
The quick version
Dark, punchy and low on acidity, and it is cheap.
Cheaper than 90% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Chocolatey and nutty, low acidity
- Strength
- Strong
- Best for
- Everyday milk coffee
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 5/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.41across 36 products
Against the market−36%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£5.67a week, £3.15 less than typical
Largest pack1.2kg£24.12 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1.2kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
Grumpy Mule coffee, cheapest per cup
Live prices, updated whenever this page is loaded.
Prices are the last we fetched and can move. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. It never changes the order, which is always cheapest per cup first.
What Grumpy Mule coffee costs
The range runs from 41p to 67p a cup across 36 products. That is a 1.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Grumpy Mule expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Colombia Planadas Organic in the 500g, and the dearest is Easy Does It Swiss Water Organic in the 200g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia Planadas Organic | whole bean | 500g | £0.41 | £22.50 |
| Machu Picchu Organic | whole bean | 750g | £0.41 | £22.87 |
| Cafédirect Fairtrade House Espresso | whole bean | 1kg | £0.43 | £24.00 |
| Sumatra Mount Gayo Organic | whole bean | 1.2kg | £0.43 | £24.12 |
| Cafédirect Espresso | whole bean | 1kg | £0.44 | £24.50 |
| Peru Café Feminino Organic | whole bean | 500g | £0.45 | £24.76 |
| Sumatra Mount Gayo Organic | whole bean | 500g | £0.45 | £25.06 |
| Honduras La Labor Organic | ground | 1.2kg | £0.46 | £25.63 |
| Colombia Planadas Organic | whole bean | 200g | £0.49 | £27.50 |
| Peru Café Feminino Organic | whole bean | 200g | £0.49 | £27.50 |
| Honduras La Labor Organic | ground | 200g | £0.49 | £27.50 |
| Top Notch Organic Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.50 | £27.60 |
Bags themselves run £5.50 to £30.75. Ignore that column. A bigger bag costs more and almost always costs less per cup, which is the only number that follows you home.
The one to buy
If you buy one thing from Grumpy Mule, buy Colombia Planadas Organic. At 41p a cup it comes in around 36% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Grumpy Mule's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
Grumpy Mule against the whole bean market
Every whole bean coffee we track, cheapest cup on the left. The marker is this brand at its cheapest.
Grumpy Mule pack sizes
Pack size moves the price per kilo more than anything else in a range. Buy the biggest bag you will finish in about six weeks.
- 200g16 products
- 500g7 products
- 750g1 product
- 1kg10 products
- 1.2kg2 products
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Grumpy Mule£0.41 per cup£296
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Grumpy Mule costs £164 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How to pay less for it
- Read the per-cup column, not the shelf price. They order differently more often than not.
- Buy the biggest bag you will finish in about six weeks. Pack size moves the per-kilo price further than anything else on this page.
- Check whether the same coffee turns up in a larger bag further down the range. It often does, at a lower rate.
- Check again before you reorder. Whoever was cheapest last month frequently is not.
What else to look at
Coffees priced like Grumpy Mule
The closest whole bean coffees on price per cup, from brands we also track. If one of these is cheaper for the same thing, that is worth knowing before you order.
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