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Brand review · 3 min readPink Lane Coffee coffee review
What Pink Lane Coffee sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Pink Lane Coffee asks 81p 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
Bright, fruity coffee for people who already know they like it, priced about where you would expect.
Cheaper than 32% of the ground coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 2/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 2/5
Cheapest cup£0.81across 10 products
Against the market+15%vs the ground median
Two cups a day£11.34a week at its cheapest
Mostly roastedLightfloral, citrus
Buy it ifyou finish a 1kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifCoaltown at 81p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Pink Lane Coffee sells whole bean and ground in the UK, and we track 10 of their coffees, in 1kg.
Pink Lane Coffee is a blender: 90% 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 sits on just 2 of our five levels, so this is a range with a house style rather than a spread to pick from. 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 70% of the range, so it is fair to call that the backbone of what they buy.
Formats and origins
What Pink Lane Coffee sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Pink Lane Coffee coffee costs
The range runs from 65p to £1.08 a cup across ten products. That is a 1.7× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Pink Lane Coffee expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Biya Faris in the 1kg, and the dearest is Edernoman Toledo in the 1kg.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biya Faris | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Colombia | — | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Colombia | — | 1kg | £0.68 | £37.50 |
| Colombia | — | 1kg | £0.81 | £45.00 |
| Gregorio Espinoza | ground | 1kg | £0.81 | £45.00 |
| Wilson Alba | — | 1kg | £0.86 | £48.00 |
| Finca La Esmerelda | — | 1kg | £0.92 | £51.00 |
| Wilson Alba | — | 1kg | £0.92 | £51.00 |
| Finca Artemira | ground | 1kg | £0.97 | £54.00 |
| Edernoman Toledo | — | 1kg | £1.08 | £60.00 |
Bags themselves run £36.00 to £60.00. 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
Biya Faris is the cheapest thing Pink Lane Coffee sells, at 65p 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?
- Pink Lane Coffee£0.81 per cup£591
- Typical ground£0.71 per cup, our median£516
At 2 cups a day, Pink Lane Coffee costs £76 more a year than the typical ground coffee we track. Worth knowing before you commit to a subscription.
How Pink Lane Coffee tastes
We have not tasted Pink Lane 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 Pink Lane 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.
- Households getting through real volume. The kilo bags are the whole value case, and they only work if you drink them fresh.
- People who already know they like a light roast, because that is essentially all there is here.
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. Pink Lane 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.
Pink Lane 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 Pink Lane 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 Pink Lane 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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