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Brand review · 3 min readHR Higgins coffee review
What HR Higgins sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
HR Higgins asks £1.10 a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most ground 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, and it is not cheap.
Cheaper than 14% of the ground coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 1/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£1.10across 25 products
Against the market+55%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£15.36a week at its cheapest
Largest pack1kg£60.95 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifCLO at £1.15 would do
What kind of roaster this is
HR Higgins sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 25 of their coffees, in 1kg and 250g.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 100% 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 15 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. 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.
Formats and origins
What HR Higgins sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What HR Higgins coffee costs
The range runs from £1.10 to £2.70 a cup across 25 products. That is a 2.5× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is HR Higgins expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Creole Blend in the 1kg, and the dearest is Galapagos San Cristobal Organic in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creole Blend | ground | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| Santiago Blend | ground | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| India Malabar Monsooned | ground | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| Costa Rica San Jose | ground | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| Brazil Fazenda Barrinha | — | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| Colombia Supreme | ground | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| Continental Blend | ground | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| 1942 Blend | — | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| Vienna Blend | ground | 1kg | £1.10 | £60.95 |
| El Salvador Finca El Ingenio | ground | 250g | £1.13 | £63.00 |
| Brazil Yellow Bourbon Dark | ground | 1kg | £1.17 | £65.00 |
| Ethiopia Guji Hambela | ground | 1kg | £1.22 | £67.95 |
Bags themselves run £15.75 to £150.00. 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
Creole Blend is the cheapest thing HR Higgins sells, at £1.10 a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average for ground 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?
- HR Higgins£1.10 per cup£801
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, HR Higgins costs £285 more a year than the typical ground coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How HR Higgins tastes
We have not tasted HR Higgins, 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 HR Higgins 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 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. HR Higgins 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.
HR Higgins 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 ground coffees we track to HR Higgins, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like HR Higgins
The closest ground 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
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PricesHR Higgins price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll HR Higgins pricesLive prices on all 25 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery ground coffeeAll 483 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewCLO reviewThe closest brand to HR Higgins on price, at £1.15 a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.