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Brand review · 3 min readJolly Bean coffee review
What Jolly Bean sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Jolly Bean sells 11 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
Balanced everyday coffee that suits almost everyone.
- 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
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.47across 11 products
Range spread2.5×£0.47 to £1.15 a cup
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are buying on price alone
What kind of roaster this is
Jolly Bean sells coffee in the UK, and we track 11 of their coffees, in 1kg and 225g.
About 55% of the classified range is blended, so Jolly Bean is playing both games: something dependable to reorder, and something changing to be curious about. The roasting sits on just 2 of our five levels, so this is a range with a house style rather than a spread to pick from. 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. Colombia turns up in 55% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Jolly Bean sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Jolly Bean coffee costs
The range runs from 47p to £1.15 a cup across 11 products. That is a 2.5× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Jolly Bean expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Brazil in the 1kg, and the dearest is Special Release Peach Maceration* Colombia in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | — | 1kg | £0.47 | £26.00 |
| Saltaire Seasonal Blend | — | 1kg | £0.54 | £30.00 |
| Bargain Basement BANGERS! | — | 225g | £0.62 | £34.44 |
| Uganda | — | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Uganda Decaf | — | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Colombia | — | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Ethiopia | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| *RESTOCK* Colombia | — | 1kg | £0.70 | £39.00 |
| *NEW SPECIAL RELEASE* Colombia | — | 1kg | £0.86 | £48.00 |
| *COCONUT COFERMENT* Colombia | — | 1kg | £1.12 | £62.00 |
| Special Release Peach Maceration* Colombia | — | 1kg | £1.15 | £64.00 |
Bags themselves run £7.75 to £64.00. 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
Brazil is the cheapest thing Jolly Bean sells, at 47p 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 Jolly Bean tastes
We have not tasted Jolly Bean, 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 Jolly Bean 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 want a house blend to fall back on with named origins to wander into.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- People who already know they like a medium roast, because that is essentially all there is here.
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. Jolly Bean 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.
Jolly Bean 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 Jolly Bean, 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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