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Brand review · 3 min readLeicester Coffee House Company coffee review
What Leicester Coffee House Company sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Leicester Coffee House Company asks 86p 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 a price that expects you to care.
Cheaper than 19% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Fruity and sweet, lighter bodied
- Strength
- Mild to medium
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 1/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£0.86across 7 products
Against the market+37%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£12.10a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedMedium-lightfruit, sweet
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifGeneric at 85p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Leicester Coffee House Company sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 7 of their coffees, in 1kg.
100% of the Leicester Coffee House Company 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 6 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.
Formats and origins
What Leicester Coffee House Company sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Leicester Coffee House Company coffee costs
The range runs from 86p to 94p a cup across seven products. That is a 1.1× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Leicester Coffee House Company expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Peru in the 1kg, and the dearest is Ethiopia in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peru | whole bean | 1kg | £0.86 | £48.00 |
| Colombia DECAF | whole bean | 1kg | £0.88 | £49.00 |
| Rwanda | whole bean | 1kg | £0.88 | £49.00 |
| Brazil | whole bean | 1kg | £0.89 | £49.50 |
| Selection | whole bean | 1kg | £0.90 | £50.00 |
| Indonesia | whole bean | 1kg | £0.90 | £50.00 |
| Ethiopia | whole bean | 1kg | £0.94 | £52.00 |
Bags themselves run £48.00 to £52.00. 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
Peru is the cheapest thing Leicester Coffee House Company sells, at 86p 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?
- Leicester Coffee House Company£0.86 per cup£631
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Leicester Coffee House Company costs £171 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Leicester Coffee House Company tastes
We have not tasted Leicester Coffee House Company, 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 Leicester Coffee House Company 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. Leicester Coffee House Company 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.
Leicester Coffee House Company 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 Leicester Coffee House Company, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Leicester Coffee House Company
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
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PricesLeicester Coffee House Company price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Leicester Coffee House Company pricesLive prices on all 7 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewGeneric reviewThe closest brand to Leicester Coffee House Company on price, at 85p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.