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Brand review · 4 min readBean Coffee coffee review
What Bean Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Bean Coffee sells 11 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 56p 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 70% 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
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 2/5
Cheapest cup£0.56across 11 products
Against the market−11%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£7.81a week, £1.01 less than typical
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifRoastworks at 56p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Bean Coffee sells whole bean and pods in the UK, and we track 11 of their coffees, in 10 pods and 1kg.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 82% of the classified range is blended. The trade is a familiar one. You give up the story on the label and you get a cup that does not drift between orders. The buying reaches 6 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. 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. Decaf is 18% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Bean Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Bean Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 50p to £1.01 a cup across 11 products. That is a 2× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Bean Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Bean Blend Pods in the 10 pods, and the dearest is Colombia Nogales Decaf in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bean Blend Pods | pods | 10 pods | £0.50 | — |
| Colombia Decaf | whole bean | 1kg | £0.56 | £31.00 |
| Bean Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.56 | £31.00 |
| Colombia La Plata | whole bean | 1kg | £0.59 | £33.00 |
| Brazil DBarbosa | whole bean | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Rwanda Kinini KCRS | whole bean | 1kg | £0.70 | £39.00 |
| Rwanda Kinini | whole bean | 1kg | £0.74 | £41.00 |
| Peru Finca Artemira | whole bean | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Ethiopia Asefa Dukamo | whole bean | 1kg | £0.85 | £47.00 |
| Peru Finca Artemira | whole bean | 1kg | £0.95 | £53.00 |
| Colombia Nogales Decaf | whole bean | 1kg | £1.01 | £56.00 |
Bags themselves run £4.99 to £56.00. 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 Bean Coffee, buy Colombia Decaf. At 56p a cup it comes in around 11% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Bean 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?
- Bean Coffee£0.56 per cup£407
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Bean Coffee costs £53 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Bean Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Bean 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 Bean 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 found something they like and want it to taste the same next year, which is what a blend is for.
- 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 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. Bean Coffee clears it comfortably on at least one product, which more brands fail than pass. Worth knowing that the saving is concentrated in the larger bags rather than spread evenly, so buying the small size gives most of it back.
Bean 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 Bean 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 Bean 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
PricesBean Coffee price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Bean Coffee pricesLive prices on all 11 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewRoastworks reviewThe closest brand to Bean Coffee on price, at 56p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.