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Brand review · 4 min readOvenbird Coffee Roasters Co. coffee review
What Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. sells 12 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 50p a cup, which is less than most of the whole bean 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
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, for below the going rate.
Cheaper than 79% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Balanced, caramel and chocolate
- Strength
- Medium
- Best for
- Everyday coffee, black or white
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 4/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 5/5
Cheapest cup£0.50across 12 products
Against the market−20%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£7.06a week, £1.76 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 6kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifAmericas at 50p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 12 of their coffees, in 6kg, 2kg, 1kg and 500g.
92% of the Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. 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 8 countries across the range, which is a wide book for a brand this size. 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. Bags come in both small and kilo sizes, and the gap between them per kilo is usually the largest saving available anywhere on this page. Decaf is 17% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. coffee costs
The range runs from 50p to £1.15 a cup across 12 products. That is a 2.3× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Dead Poets Society Blend in the 6kg, and the dearest is Islay in the 500g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead Poets Society Blend | whole bean | 6kg | £0.50 | £28.00 |
| North Sea Ledger | whole bean | 2kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Italian Espresso | whole bean | 2kg | £0.60 | £33.50 |
| 1984 Blend | whole bean | 2kg | £0.62 | £34.50 |
| Colombia Madremonte Women's | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £37.50 |
| Back To Filter Blend | ground | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Rwanda Nyamasheke Hills | whole bean | 1kg | £0.68 | £38.00 |
| Ethiopia Yirgacheffe G1 Chelelektu | whole bean | 1kg | £0.74 | £41.00 |
| Decaf Moonlight | whole bean | 1kg | £0.79 | £44.00 |
| Decaf Peru G1 Mountain Water | whole bean | 1kg | £0.81 | £45.00 |
| The Spey | — | 500g | £1.15 | £64.00 |
| Islay | whole bean | 500g | £1.15 | £64.00 |
Bags themselves run £32.00 to £168.00. 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 Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co., buy Dead Poets Society Blend. At 50p a cup it comes in around 20% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co.'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?
- Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co.£0.50 per cup£368
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. costs £92 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. tastes
We have not tasted Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co., 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 Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. 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.
- Anyone whose real comparison is supermarket own-brand, judged per cup rather than by the label.
- 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. Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. 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.
Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. 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 Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co., and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co.
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
Keep reading
PricesOvenbird Coffee Roasters Co. price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. pricesLive prices on all 12 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewAmericas reviewThe closest brand to Ovenbird Coffee Roasters Co. on price, at 50p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.