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Brand review · 3 min readPilgrimscoffee coffee review
What Pilgrimscoffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Pilgrimscoffee asks 66p a cup at its cheapest, which is more than most whole bean 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, at an unremarkable price.
Cheaper than 45% 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
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 5/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.66across 6 products
Against the market+5%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£9.29a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedMediumcaramel, balanced
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifArt & Coffee at 67p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Pilgrimscoffee sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 6 of their coffees, in 1kg.
Pilgrimscoffee is a blender: 83% 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. Decaf is 17% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Pilgrimscoffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Pilgrimscoffee coffee costs
The range runs from 55p to 66p a cup across six products. That is a 1.2× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Pilgrimscoffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Daily Bread Blend in the 1kg, and the dearest is East Timor Natural Process in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Bread Blend | — | 1kg | £0.55 | £30.50 |
| Fire and Brimstone Dark Roast | — | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.10 |
| Holy Grail Blend | — | 1kg | £0.62 | £34.70 |
| Single Origin | whole bean | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.85 |
| Decaf | — | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.85 |
| East Timor Natural Process | — | 1kg | £0.66 | £36.85 |
Bags themselves run £30.50 to £36.85. 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
Daily Bread Blend is the cheapest thing Pilgrimscoffee sells, at 55p a cup. We cannot yet set that against a market average for whole bean coffee, so treat it as the floor of the range rather than a verdict on value.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Pilgrimscoffee£0.66 per cup£484
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Pilgrimscoffee costs £24 more a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Pilgrimscoffee tastes
We have not tasted Pilgrimscoffee, 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 Pilgrimscoffee 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. Pilgrimscoffee 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.
Pilgrimscoffee 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 Pilgrimscoffee, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Pilgrimscoffee
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
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