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Brand review · 3 min readGrain and Grind coffee review
What Grain and Grind sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Grain and Grind sells 26 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£0.54across 26 products
Range spread1.3×£0.54 to £0.68 a cup
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou want the same cup every time
Skip it ifyou are buying on price alone
What kind of roaster this is
Grain and Grind sells coffee in the UK, and we track 26 of their coffees, in 250g.
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 19 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 4 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. Nothing here comes in a kilo bag. That keeps the coffee fresher in your cupboard and costs you the bulk discount, which is the trade you are making whether or not anyone points it out.
Formats and origins
What Grain and Grind sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Grain and Grind coffee costs
The range runs from 54p to 68p a cup across 26 products. That is a 1.3× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Grain and Grind expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Zambia Lupili AA in the 250g, and the dearest is Mexican Mountain Water Decaf in the 250g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zambia Lupili AA | — | 250g | £0.54 | £30.00 |
| Around The World | — | 250g | £0.54 | £30.00 |
| Brazil Santos | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Colombian Rich Roast | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Culloden Blend | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Honduras La Flor | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Sumatran Mandheling | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Costa Rica San Rafael | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Ethiopian Limu | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Italian Roast | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Lochness Roast | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Marchtown Blend | — | 250g | £0.68 | £38.00 |
Bags themselves run £7.50 to £9.50. 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
Zambia Lupili AA is the cheapest thing Grain and Grind sells, at 54p 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 Grain and Grind tastes
We have not tasted Grain and Grind, 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 Grain and Grind 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.
- Slow drinkers, and anyone who would rather buy little and often than watch a kilo go stale.
- People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 4 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. Grain and Grind 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.
Grain and Grind 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 Grain and Grind, 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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