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Brand review · 3 min readBaristocracy Coffee coffee review
What Baristocracy Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Baristocracy Coffee sells 9 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 58p a cup, which is less than most of the whole bean coffee we track. Cheap coffee is easy to find and hard to trust, so the useful question is not whether it is cheap. It is what the range actually contains, and whether the bag doing the heavy lifting is the one you would want.
Short answer
Delicate and fruit-forward rather than strong, and it undercuts the average.
Cheaper than 68% 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
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 3/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 2/5
Cheapest cup£0.58across 9 products
Against the market−9%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£8.06a week, £0.76 less than typical
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou want the same cup every time
Skip it ifHalo Coffee 2018 at 58p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Baristocracy Coffee sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 9 of their coffees, in 250g.
Baristocracy Coffee runs blends and named origins side by side, roughly 44% 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 7 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 3 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. Nothing here comes in a kilo bag. That keeps the coffee fresher in your cupboard and costs you the bulk discount, which is the trade you are making whether or not anyone points it out. Decaf is 22% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Baristocracy Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Baristocracy Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 58p to £1.01 a cup across nine products. That is a 1.8× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Baristocracy Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Decaf Colombia in the 250g, and the dearest is Uganda in the 250g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decaf Colombia | whole bean | 250g | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Zambia | whole bean | 250g | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Colombia | whole bean | 250g | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Mexico | whole bean | 250g | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Kenya | whole bean | 250g | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Limited Edition Decaf | whole bean | 250g | £1.01 | £56.00 |
| Rwanda | whole bean | 250g | £1.01 | £56.00 |
| Costa Rica | whole bean | 250g | £1.01 | £56.00 |
| Uganda | whole bean | 250g | £1.01 | £56.00 |
Bags themselves run £8.00 to £14.00. 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
If you buy one thing from Baristocracy Coffee, buy Decaf Colombia. At 58p a cup it comes in around 9% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Baristocracy Coffee's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Baristocracy Coffee£0.58 per cup£420
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Baristocracy Coffee costs £39 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Baristocracy Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Baristocracy Coffee, 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 Baristocracy Coffee 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.
- Slow drinkers, and anyone who would rather buy little and often than watch a kilo go stale.
- People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 3 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. Baristocracy Coffee 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.
Baristocracy Coffee 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 Baristocracy Coffee, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Baristocracy Coffee
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
Keep reading
PricesBaristocracy Coffee price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Baristocracy Coffee pricesLive prices on all 9 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewHalo Coffee 2018 reviewThe closest brand to Baristocracy Coffee on price, at 58p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.