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Brand review · 3 min readBailies Coffee Roasters coffee review
What Bailies Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Bailies Coffee Roasters asks 72p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most whole bean coffee we list. Plenty of brands charge that and are worth it. The question is what you get for the difference, so here is the range, what it costs against everything else, and where we would put the money.
Short answer
Bright, fruity coffee for people who already know they like it, at the going rate.
Cheaper than 37% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 3/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 1/5
Cheapest cup£0.72across 15 products
Against the market+14%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£10.08a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifTerrone & Co. at 72p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Bailies Coffee Roasters sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 15 of their coffees, in 1kg.
Bailies Coffee Roasters runs blends and named origins side by side, roughly 33% blended. That usually means a house blend doing the volume with single origins rotating alongside it, which is the most forgiving shape a range can have. The buying reaches 8 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 4 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. Every bag we list is a kilo or more, which is what pushes the per-cup figure down and also what makes this a bad fit if you drink slowly, since coffee is past its best four to six weeks after roasting.
Formats and origins
What Bailies Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Bailies Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 72p to £1.08 a cup across 15 products. That is a 1.5× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Bailies Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Umbra Signature Blend in the 1kg, and the dearest is Bolivia Waliki Washed Microlot in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umbra Signature Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Pendo Signature Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| El Salvador Pacas Washed | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Mella Signature Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.77 | £43.00 |
| Colombia Comepcafe Washed | whole bean | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Brazil Pedra Redonda Natural Microlot | whole bean | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Nota Signature Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Brazil Sao Silvestre Natural | whole bean | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Guatemala Teanzul Washed Microlot | whole bean | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Ethiopia Hunkute Washed | whole bean | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Ethiopia Mirado Natural | whole bean | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
| Colombia Santander Decaf Washed | whole bean | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
Bags themselves run £40.00 to £60.00. 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
Umbra Signature Blend is the cheapest thing Bailies Coffee Roasters sells, at 72p a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average for whole bean coffee, so treat it as the floor of the range rather than a verdict on value.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Bailies Coffee Roasters£0.72 per cup£526
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Bailies Coffee Roasters costs £66 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Bailies Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted Bailies Coffee Roasters, so we are not going to invent a tasting note. A flavour score we did not earn would be worth less than none, and this section would be the easiest place on the site to quietly make one up. What we can show you is measured: where every coffee in the range sits on our own five-point roast scale, and which origins go into it. Roast is the strongest single predictor of whether a cup arrives bright and fruity or dark and chocolatey, so it is the closest honest answer to what this brand is like to drink.
How Bailies Coffee Roasters roasts
Every coffee standardised onto our own five-point scale rather than the roaster's. Read these as tendencies: origin, process and how you brew all move the cup.
Who it suits
- People who want a house blend to fall back on with named origins to wander into.
- Households getting through real volume. The kilo bags are the whole value case, and they only work if you drink them fresh.
- People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 4 of our five levels.
Is it good value?
Our test is simple, and it is the same one we apply to everything: cost per cup against the median for the same format. Bailies Coffee Roasters lands around the middle. It is not the cheapest way to a cup of coffee, and the money above the median buys convenience and consistency rather than a smaller bill. Whether that is a fair trade is genuinely your call, not ours.
Bailies Coffee Roasters products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
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 else to consider
No brand is worth buying without knowing what sits next to it on price. These are the closest whole bean coffees we track to Bailies Coffee Roasters, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Bailies Coffee Roasters
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.
Compare against the market
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PricesBailies Coffee Roasters price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Bailies Coffee Roasters pricesLive prices on all 15 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewTerrone & Co. reviewThe closest brand to Bailies Coffee Roasters on price, at 72p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.