Halo Coffee 2018 coffee bagsBrand review · 4 min read

Halo Coffee 2018 coffee review

What Halo Coffee 2018 sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.

Updated 3 September 2026Written by the We Try Coffee team

Halo Coffee 2018 asks 63p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most pods 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

Push-button coffee at the going rate.

Cheaper than 32% of the pods coffee we track

Tastes
Dark, smoky and bold
Strength
Very strong
Best for
Quick weekday cups
Valuecup price vs the format median
2/5
Easy to likefrom the roast profile
4/5
Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
4/5
Cheapest cup£0.63across 18 products
Against the market+21%vs the pods median
Two cups a day£8.75a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedDarksmoky, bold

Buy it ifyour machine takes these capsules

Skip it ifCoaltown at 63p would do

What kind of roaster this is

Halo Coffee 2018 sells whole bean and pods in the UK, and we track 18 of their coffees, in 250g, 1kg, 40 pods and 10 pods.

Halo Coffee 2018 is a blender: 94% of the range we can classify is blended rather than sold as a named origin. That is a choice, not a shortcut. A blend can be rebuilt season to season to taste the same, which is what you want if you buy the same coffee every month and would rather it did not move under you. The buying reaches 8 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 22% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.

Formats and origins

What Halo Coffee 2018 sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.

What Halo Coffee 2018 coffee costs

The range runs from 58p to £1.00 a cup across 18 products. That is a 1.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Halo Coffee 2018 expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Honduras in the 250g, and the dearest is Ristretto in the 10 pods.

Halo Coffee 2018 range, cheapest per cup first
ProductFormatSizePer cupPer kg
Honduraswhole bean250g£0.58£32.00
Decaf Peruvian Andeswhole bean250g£0.58£32.00
Whole Bean Coffee Collectionwhole bean1kg£0.58£32.50
Indian Parchmentpods40 pods£0.63
Daterrapods40 pods£0.63
Decaf Peruvian Andespods40 pods£0.63
Pinnaclespods10 pods£0.70
Bourbon Espressopods10 pods£0.70
Nepalese Everestwhole bean250g£0.72£40.00
Ristrettowhole bean250g£0.72£40.00
Collectionpods50 pods£0.79
Decaf Collection- 50pods50 pods£0.79

Bags themselves run £7.00 to £39.60. 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

If you buy one thing from Halo Coffee 2018, buy Honduras. At 58p a cup it comes in around 9% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Halo Coffee 2018's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.

What that costs over a year

How much coffee do you drink?
  • Halo Coffee 2018£0.63 per cup£456
  • Typical pods£0.52 per cup, our median£378

At 2 cups a day, Halo Coffee 2018 costs £78 more a year than the typical pods coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.

How Halo Coffee 2018 tastes

We have not tasted Halo Coffee 2018, 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 Halo Coffee 2018 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.
  • Pod machine owners, though price a compatible capsule for your machine before committing to the brand's own.
  • 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. Halo Coffee 2018 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.

Halo Coffee 2018 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 pods coffees we track to Halo Coffee 2018, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.

Coffees priced like Halo Coffee 2018

The closest pods 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.