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Brand review · 3 min readBristol Twenty coffee review
What Bristol Twenty sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Bristol Twenty sells 13 coffees in the UK, and like every brand the range hides a wide spread once you price it by the cup instead of by the bag. Here is what it contains and what it actually costs to drink.
Short answer
Easy-drinking coffee with caramel and chocolate about it.
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.47across 13 products
Range spread1.7×£0.47 to £0.77 a cup
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are buying on price alone
What kind of roaster this is
Bristol Twenty sells coffee in the UK, and we track 13 of their coffees, in 1kg and 500g.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 85% 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 5 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. Bags come in both small and kilo sizes, and the gap between them per kilo is usually the largest saving available anywhere on this page. Brazil turns up in 54% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy. Decaf is 15% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Bristol Twenty sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Bristol Twenty coffee costs
The range runs from 47p to 77p a cup across 13 products. That is a 1.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Bristol Twenty expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Half Caf in the 1kg, and the dearest is Machu Picchu – Swiss Water Decaffeinated in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Half Caf | — | 1kg | £0.47 | £26.00 |
| Latina | — | 1kg | £0.49 | £27.00 |
| Polar Espresso | — | 1kg | £0.49 | £27.00 |
| Copan-Cabana | — | 1kg | £0.49 | £27.50 |
| 21 TEN | — | 1kg | £0.50 | £28.00 |
| Buena Decada | — | 1kg | £0.52 | £29.00 |
| Heritage | — | 500g | £0.52 | £29.00 |
| La Selva | — | 1kg | £0.52 | £29.00 |
| Formula 318 | — | 1kg | £0.56 | £31.00 |
| Colombian Sugar Cane Decaffeinated | — | 1kg | £0.57 | £31.90 |
| Colombia La Casiana Estate | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Formula 442 | — | 1kg | £0.59 | £33.00 |
Bags themselves run £14.50 to £43.00. 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
Half Caf is the cheapest thing Bristol Twenty sells, at 47p a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average, because the range is not yet classified by format, so treat it as the floor of the range rather than a verdict on value.
How Bristol Twenty tastes
We have not tasted Bristol Twenty, 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 Bristol Twenty 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.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- 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. Bristol Twenty 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.
Bristol Twenty 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 Bristol Twenty, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
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