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Brand review · 3 min readLong & Short coffee review
What Long & Short sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Long & Short sells 1 coffee 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
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£1.08across 1 product
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
Long & Short sells coffee in the UK, and we track 1 of its coffees, in 150g.
Long & Short is a blender: 100% 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. Everything is roasted to the same point on our five-point scale, so the roast is not a choice you make here; it is the house style, take it or leave it. 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. Ethiopia turns up in 100% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Long & Short sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Long & Short coffee costs
Everything Long & Short sells lands at the same £1.08 a cup, across one product. That makes the choice about roast and origin rather than money.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanchez Gesha | — | 150g | £1.08 | £60.00 |
The one to buy
Sanchez Gesha is the cheapest thing Long & Short sells, at £1.08 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 Long & Short tastes
We have not tasted Long & Short, 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 Long & Short 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 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. Long & Short 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.
Long & Short products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
Check today’s pricePrices 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 Long & Short, 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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