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Brand review · 3 min readMarley Coffee coffee review
What Marley Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Marley Coffee sells 2 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 61p a cup, which is less than most of the ground coffee we track. Cheap coffee is easy to find and hard to trust, so the useful question is not whether it is cheap. It is what the range actually contains, and whether the bag doing the heavy lifting is the one you would want.
Short answer
Balanced everyday coffee that suits almost everyone, and it undercuts the average.
Cheaper than 69% of the ground coffee we track
- 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£0.61across 2 products
Against the market−14%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£8.55a week, £1.34 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou want the same cup every time
Skip it ifPeru at 60p would do
Marley Coffee products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
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What kind of roaster this is
Marley Coffee sells ground in the UK, and we track 2 of their coffees, in 227g.
Marley Coffee 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 we track from them traces back to Jamaica, so this is a narrow book rather than a broad one. 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. 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.
Formats and origins
What Marley Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Marley Coffee coffee costs
Everything Marley Coffee sells lands at the same 61p a cup, across two products. That makes the choice about roast and origin rather than money.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Soldier Strong Organic | ground | 227g | £0.61 | £33.92 |
The one to buy
If you buy one thing from Marley Coffee, buy Buffalo Soldier Strong Organic. At 61p a cup it comes in around 14% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Marley Coffee'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?
- Marley Coffee£0.61 per cup£446
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Marley Coffee costs £70 less a year than the typical ground coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Marley Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Marley Coffee, 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 Marley Coffee 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. Marley Coffee clears it comfortably on at least one product, which more brands fail than pass. Worth knowing that the saving is concentrated in the larger bags rather than spread evenly, so buying the small size gives most of it back.
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 Marley Coffee, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Marley Coffee
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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PricesMarley Coffee price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Marley Coffee pricesLive prices on all 2 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery ground coffeeAll 483 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewPeru reviewThe closest brand to Marley Coffee on price, at 60p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.