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Brand review · 3 min readOld Spike coffee review
What Old Spike sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Old Spike asks 72p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most ground 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
Balanced everyday coffee that suits almost everyone, priced about where you would expect.
Cheaper than 48% 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
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.72across 8 products
Against the market+2%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£10.08a week at its cheapest
Largest pack4kg£23.75 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 4kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifnelsoncoffeeco at 72p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Old Spike sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 8 of their coffees, in 4kg and 1kg.
Old Spike is a blender: 88% 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 roasting spans 4 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 Old Spike sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Old Spike coffee costs
The range runs from 43p to 83p a cup across eight products. That is a 1.9× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Old Spike expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is 4Kg's in the 4kg, and the dearest is EL DIABLO Natural in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4Kg's | — | 4kg | £0.43 | £23.75 |
| Benedict House Blend | — | 1kg | £0.54 | £30.00 |
| Arnhem Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| House Espresso | ground | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Munchique Los Tigres | ground | 1kg | £0.77 | £43.00 |
| Happy Capybara decaf | ground | 1kg | £0.77 | £43.00 |
| Beatriz GuimarãEs | ground | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| EL DIABLO Natural | — | 1kg | £0.83 | £46.00 |
Bags themselves run £30.00 to £95.00. 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
If you buy one thing from Old Spike, buy Arnhem Blend. 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 Old Spike'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?
- Old Spike£0.72 per cup£526
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Old Spike costs £10 more a year than the typical ground coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Old Spike tastes
We have not tasted Old Spike, 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 Old Spike 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 4 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. Old Spike 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.
Old Spike 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 ground coffees we track to Old Spike, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Old Spike
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
Keep reading
PricesOld Spike price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Old Spike pricesLive prices on all 8 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery ground coffeeAll 483 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.Reviewnelsoncoffeeco reviewThe closest brand to Old Spike on price, at 72p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.