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Brand review · 3 min readOwens Organic Coffee Roasters coffee review
What Owens Organic Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Owens Organic Coffee Roasters sells 14 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 52p 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
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, and it costs very little.
Cheaper than 83% 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
- 4/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.52across 14 products
Against the market−26%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£7.30a week, £2.60 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifyou are chasing a named farm or origin
What kind of roaster this is
Owens Organic Coffee Roasters sells whole bean, ground and pods in the UK, and we track 14 of their coffees, in 1kg and 20 pods.
100% of the Owens Organic Coffee Roasters 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 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 Owens Organic Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Owens Organic Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 50p to 72p a cup across 14 products. That is a 1.4× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Owens Organic Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is House blend in the 1kg, and the dearest is Colombia in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House blend | — | 1kg | £0.50 | £27.95 |
| Coast | ground | 1kg | £0.52 | £28.95 |
| Gara | ground | 1kg | £0.62 | £34.49 |
| Bantham | ground | 1kg | £0.62 | £34.49 |
| Baya | ground | 1kg | £0.62 | £34.49 |
| Dart | ground | 1kg | £0.62 | £34.49 |
| Organic Nespresso® Compatible | pods | 20 pods | £0.63 | — |
| Swiss Water Decaf Organic Nespresso® Compatible | pods | 20 pods | £0.65 | — |
| Rwanda | ground | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.25 |
| Honduras | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.25 |
| Swiss Water Decaf | ground | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.25 |
| Peru | ground | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.25 |
Bags themselves run £12.50 to £40.25. 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 Owens Organic Coffee Roasters, buy Coast. At 52p a cup it comes in around 26% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Owens Organic 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?
- Owens Organic Coffee Roasters£0.52 per cup£380
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Owens Organic Coffee Roasters costs £135 less a year than the typical ground coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Owens Organic Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted Owens Organic 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 Owens Organic 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 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. Owens Organic Coffee Roasters 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.
Owens Organic 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 Owens Organic 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 Owens Organic 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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