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Brand review · 3 min readPotterbeans coffee review
What Potterbeans sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Potterbeans sells 33 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 58p 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
Delicate and fruit-forward rather than strong, at less than most people pay.
Cheaper than 68% of the whole bean coffee we track
- Tastes
- Bright and floral, noticeably acidic
- Strength
- Mild
- Best for
- Filter and pour-over
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 3/5
Cheapest cup£0.58across 33 products
Against the market−9%vs the whole bean median
Two cups a day£8.06a week, £0.76 less than typical
Largest pack1.2kg£33.33 per kg
Buy it ifyou finish a 1.2kg bag inside six weeks
Skip it ifHalo Coffee 2018 at 58p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Potterbeans sells whole bean in the UK, and we track 33 of their coffees, in 1kg, 1.2kg and 240g.
Expect blends here rather than named farms: 67% of the classified range is blended. The trade is a familiar one. You give up the story on the label and you get a cup that does not drift between orders. The buying reaches 13 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.
Formats and origins
What Potterbeans sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Potterbeans coffee costs
The range runs from 58p to £1.50 a cup across 33 products. That is a 2.6× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Potterbeans expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is Indian Monsoon Malabar AA in the 1kg, and the dearest is Ethiopia Uraga Gomoro G1 Supernatural in the 240g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Monsoon Malabar AA | whole bean | 1kg | £0.58 | £32.00 |
| Omni Roast blend | whole bean | 1.2kg | £0.60 | £33.33 |
| 1.2kg Tin Brazil Eagle Mogiana | whole bean | 1.2kg | £0.60 | £33.33 |
| Mexican Mountain Water Decaffeinated | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Dominican Republic | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Don Roberto | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Drifter Espresso Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Yeti Blend | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Brazil Fazenda Palmital | whole bean | 1kg | £0.63 | £35.00 |
| Mexico Puebla Microlot | whole bean | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Brazil Eagle Mogiana | whole bean | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
| Peru Decaf Swiss Water Process Organic | whole bean | 1kg | £0.65 | £36.00 |
Bags themselves run £20.00 to £70.00. 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 Potterbeans, buy Indian Monsoon Malabar AA. At 58p a cup it comes in around 9% under the median for whole bean coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Potterbeans'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?
- Potterbeans£0.58 per cup£420
- Typical whole bean£0.63 per cup, our median£460
At 2 cups a day, Potterbeans costs £39 less a year than the typical whole bean coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Potterbeans tastes
We have not tasted Potterbeans, 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 Potterbeans 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. Potterbeans 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.
Potterbeans 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 Potterbeans, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Potterbeans
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
PricesPotterbeans price guideEvery bag priced per cup and per kilo, with the cheapest route to each one.BrandAll Potterbeans pricesLive prices on all 33 products, cheapest cup first.CompareEvery whole bean coffeeAll 812 of them on one per-cup basis, filterable by roast and origin.ReviewHalo Coffee 2018 reviewThe closest brand to Potterbeans on price, at 58p a cup.OffersToday's best valueEverything currently priced well under the median for its own format.