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Brand review · 3 min readOrigin Coffee Roasters coffee review
What Origin Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Origin Coffee Roasters sells 16 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 66p 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
Easy-drinking coffee with caramel and chocolate about it, for below the going rate.
Cheaper than 60% 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
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£0.66across 16 products
Against the market−7%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£9.20a week, £0.69 less than typical
Largest pack1kg£35.50 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifDark Arts Coffee at 66p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Origin Coffee Roasters sells whole bean, ground and pods in the UK, and we track 16 of their coffees, in 10 pods and 1kg.
About 56% of the classified range is blended, so Origin Coffee Roasters is playing both games: something dependable to reorder, and something changing to be curious about. The buying reaches 8 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. The roasting spans 5 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. Colombia turns up in 44% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Origin Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Origin Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 60p to £1.45 a cup across 16 products. That is a 2.4× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Origin Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Três Meninas in the 10 pods, and the dearest is Calliandra in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Três Meninas | pods | 10 pods | £0.60 | — |
| Caxambu | — | 1kg | £0.64 | £35.50 |
| Santa Barbara | pods | 10 pods | £0.65 | — |
| Atlas Decaf | pods | 10 pods | £0.65 | — |
| Beija Flor | ground | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.50 |
| Los Altos | ground | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.50 |
| Stronghold | — | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.50 |
| Resolute | — | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.50 |
| Pathfinder | — | 1kg | £0.69 | £38.50 |
| Umalila | ground | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| El Eucalipto | — | 1kg | £0.74 | £41.30 |
| Kibira Hill Natural | — | 1kg | £0.79 | £43.70 |
Bags themselves run £6.00 to £80.50. 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 Origin Coffee Roasters, buy Beija Flor. At 66p a cup it comes in around 7% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Origin Coffee Roasters'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?
- Origin Coffee Roasters£0.66 per cup£480
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Origin Coffee Roasters costs £36 less a year than the typical ground coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Origin Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted Origin Coffee Roasters, 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 Origin Coffee Roasters 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.
- 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 5 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. Origin Coffee Roasters 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.
Origin Coffee Roasters 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 Origin Coffee Roasters, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Origin Coffee Roasters
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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