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Brand review · 3 min readPharmacie Coffee coffee review
What Pharmacie Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Pharmacie Coffee asks 70p 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
A middle-of-the-road medium roast, black or white, at an unremarkable price.
Cheaper than 53% 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£0.70across 9 products
Against the market−1%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£9.83a week, £0.06 less than typical
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifSmall Batch Coffee Roasters at 70p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Pharmacie Coffee sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 9 of their coffees, in 1kg and 100g.
100% of the Pharmacie Coffee 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 3 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. Brazil turns up in 44% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Pharmacie Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Pharmacie Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 63p to £2.34 a cup across nine products. That is a 3.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Pharmacie Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is DECAF Happy Capybara in the 1kg, and the dearest is Lino Menor Gesha in the 100g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DECAF Happy Capybara | — | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| The Cure Espresso Blend | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Gasharu | ground | 1kg | £0.70 | £39.00 |
| Patricia Coelho | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Urilser Oliveira | ground | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Gasharu | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Urilser Oliveira | — | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Patricia Coelho | ground | 1kg | £0.72 | £40.00 |
| Lino Menor Gesha | ground | 100g | £2.34 | £130.00 |
Bags themselves run £13.00 to £40.00. 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 Pharmacie Coffee, buy Gasharu. At 70p a cup it comes in around 1% under the median for ground coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Pharmacie 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?
- Pharmacie Coffee£0.70 per cup£512
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Pharmacie Coffee costs £3 less a year than the typical ground coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Pharmacie Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Pharmacie 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 Pharmacie 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.
- 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 3 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. Pharmacie Coffee 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.
Pharmacie Coffee 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 Pharmacie 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 Pharmacie 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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PricesPharmacie Coffee price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Pharmacie Coffee pricesLive prices on all 9 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery ground coffeeAll 483 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewSmall Batch Coffee Roasters reviewThe closest brand to Pharmacie Coffee on price, at 70p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.