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Brand review · 3 min readCrankhouse Coffee coffee review
What Crankhouse Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Crankhouse Coffee asks 65p 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
Delicate and fruit-forward rather than strong, at an unremarkable price.
Cheaper than 48% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Fruity and sweet, lighter bodied
- Strength
- Mild to medium
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.65across 13 products
Against the market+3%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£9.07a week at its cheapest
Largest pack1kg£36.00 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifGrey Seal at 65p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Crankhouse Coffee sells whole bean 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 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. 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. Decaf is 15% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Crankhouse Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Crankhouse Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 65p to £1.66 a cup across 13 products. That is a 2.6× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Crankhouse Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Risaralda IMH EA Decaf in the 1kg, and the dearest is Bertha Huaylla Sayllo in the 500g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risaralda IMH EA Decaf | whole bean | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Mandarino Oporapa regional blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| COCARIVE Baba's Wine blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| CHX | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Gabino Apaza Verónica | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Fazenda Serra das Tres Barras | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Alvaro Coli | whole bean | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Quetzal Mountain Water DECAF | whole bean | 500g | £0.76 | £42.00 |
| Burundi Bumba Hill Natural | whole bean | 1kg | £0.85 | £47.00 |
| Kilimbi Inoculated Washed | — | 1kg | £0.90 | £50.00 |
| Elider Cruz | whole bean | 1kg | £1.12 | £62.00 |
| Wilder Lazo | whole bean | 500g | £1.66 | £92.00 |
Bags themselves run £21.00 to £62.00. 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
Risaralda IMH EA Decaf is the cheapest thing Crankhouse Coffee sells, at 65p 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?
- Crankhouse Coffee£0.65 per cup£473
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Crankhouse Coffee costs £13 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Crankhouse Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Crankhouse 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 Crankhouse 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.
- 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. Crankhouse 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.
Crankhouse 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 Crankhouse 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 Crankhouse 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
PricesCrankhouse Coffee price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Crankhouse Coffee 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.ReviewGrey Seal reviewThe closest brand to Crankhouse Coffee on price, at 65p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.