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Brand review · 3 min readCampbell and Syme coffee review
What Campbell and Syme sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Campbell and Syme asks 69p 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, priced about where you would expect.
Cheaper than 40% 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£0.69across 13 products
Against the market+10%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£9.70a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifScotties Coffee at 68p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Campbell and Syme sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 13 of their coffees, in 1kg.
About 54% of the classified range is blended, so Campbell and Syme is playing both games: something dependable to reorder, and something changing to be curious about. 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.
Formats and origins
What Campbell and Syme sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Campbell and Syme coffee costs
The range runs from 58p to £1.69 a cup across 13 products. That is a 2.9× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Campbell and Syme expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Chocolatey & Smooth in the 1kg, and the dearest is Balacobaco in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolatey & Smooth | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Fruity & Juicy | — | 1kg | £0.67 | £37.00 |
| Barrinha | whole bean | 1kg | £0.69 | £38.50 |
| Evanete Peres | — | 1kg | £0.73 | £40.50 |
| Santa Elisa | whole bean | 1kg | £0.76 | £42.00 |
| Roger Chilcon | — | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Decaf De Caña | whole bean | 1kg | £0.84 | £46.50 |
| Hambella | whole bean | 1kg | £0.90 | £49.75 |
| Kieni Ab | whole bean | 1kg | £0.92 | £51.00 |
| Haru | — | 1kg | £0.94 | £52.50 |
| Lalesa | whole bean | 1kg | £1.04 | £58.00 |
| Edinson Argote | whole bean | 1kg | £1.53 | £85.00 |
Bags themselves run £32.00 to £94.00. 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
Chocolatey & Smooth is the cheapest thing Campbell and Syme sells, at 58p 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?
- Campbell and Syme£0.69 per cup£506
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Campbell and Syme costs £46 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Campbell and Syme tastes
We have not tasted Campbell and Syme, 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 Campbell and Syme 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 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. Campbell and Syme 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.
Campbell and Syme 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 Campbell and Syme, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Campbell and Syme
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
PricesCampbell and Syme price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Campbell and Syme pricesLive prices on all 13 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewScotties Coffee reviewThe closest brand to Campbell and Syme on price, at 68p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.