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Brand review · 3 min readFoundry Coffee Roasters coffee review
What Foundry Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Foundry Coffee Roasters asks 75p 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
A light roast with real acidity, best drunk black, at the going rate.
Cheaper than 33% 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
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 2/5
Cheapest cup£0.75across 11 products
Against the market+19%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£10.46a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifWe Are Coffee Co at 75p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Foundry Coffee Roasters sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 11 of their coffees, in 1kg.
73% of the Foundry Coffee Roasters range we can classify is blended. Blending has a bad name it does not deserve; it is how a roaster keeps a coffee tasting like itself when the harvest behind it changes, and it is the reason your regular bag is still your regular bag in January. 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. 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. Colombia turns up in 45% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Foundry Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Foundry Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 75p to £1.32 a cup across 11 products. That is a 1.8× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Foundry Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Popayan Decaf in the 1kg, and the dearest is Yulieth Mora in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Popayan Decaf | whole bean | 1kg | £0.75 | £41.50 |
| No. 9 Roast | whole bean | 1kg | £0.75 | £41.50 |
| Kirambo | whole bean | 1kg | £0.82 | £45.50 |
| Imbalu | whole bean | 1kg | £0.89 | £49.50 |
| Coproca | whole bean | 1kg | £0.89 | £49.50 |
| El Indio | whole bean | 1kg | £0.96 | £53.50 |
| Villa Pastora | whole bean | 1kg | £1.03 | £57.50 |
| Kii AA | whole bean | 1kg | £1.11 | £61.50 |
| Etiopia Gesha | whole bean | 1kg | £1.25 | £69.50 |
| Luz Helena Salazar | whole bean | 1kg | £1.25 | £69.50 |
| Yulieth Mora | whole bean | 1kg | £1.32 | £73.50 |
Bags themselves run £41.50 to £73.50. 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
Popayan Decaf is the cheapest thing Foundry Coffee Roasters sells, at 75p 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?
- Foundry Coffee Roasters£0.75 per cup£545
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Foundry Coffee Roasters costs £85 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Foundry Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted Foundry Coffee Roasters, 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 Foundry Coffee Roasters 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. Foundry Coffee Roasters 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.
Foundry Coffee Roasters 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 Foundry Coffee Roasters, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Foundry Coffee Roasters
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
PricesFoundry Coffee Roasters price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Foundry Coffee Roasters 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.ReviewWe Are Coffee Co reviewThe closest brand to Foundry Coffee Roasters on price, at 75p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.